Security Platform Engineer: SIEM & Automation

CyberCX; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Local and international career opps

Diversity & Inclusion Index

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to join the Managed Security Engineering team in Australia. You’ll support backend security platforms used by SOC and security operations, focusing on stability, patching, and data integrity across Windows, Linux and cloud environments.

You will deepen capabilities with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and related tooling, while collaborating with SOC analysts, engineers and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable security services for multiple

Qualifications

• Some hands-on experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or another SIEM platform.
• Exposure to security engineering, SOC operations, platform support, systems administration or infrastructure engineering.
• Understanding of log ingestion, forwarders, collectors, data onboarding or integrations.
• Good troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure or security platforms. Familiarity with Windows and/or Linux environments.
• Exposure to patching, upgrades, change management or maintaining production systems.
• An interest in scripting and automation; Python, PowerShell or APIs would be beneficial.
• Experience with Tenable or LogicMonitor would be advantageous.
• Strong willingness to learn and develop across multiple security technologies.
• Comfortable working across multiple customer environments and collaborating with SOC, engineering and infrastructure teams

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain backend security platforms used by SOC and security operations teams.
• Troubleshoot issues across log ingestion, forwarders, collectors, integrations and platform availability.
• Perform security platform patching, upgrades and routine maintenance activities.
• Support customer incidents where SIEM or security tooling is degraded, unavailable or no longer ingesting data correctly.
• Assist with onboarding and maintaining log sources across customer environments.
• Work closely with SOC analysts and security engineers to ensure the platforms they rely on are healthy and providing the right data.
• Complete scheduled changes and support ongoing service improvement activities.
• Help maintain platform health across Windows, Linux and cloud-connected environments.
• Contribute to scripting and automation initiatives, including reporting, health checks and repetitive operational tasks.
• Develop capability across additional monitoring and security platforms as the team’s responsibilities continue to grow.

Skills

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

SIEM

Troubleshooting

Windows

Linux

Scripting

Automation

APIs

Change management

Tools

Tenable

LogicMonitor

Job description

Accenture is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to join the Managed Security Engineering team in Australia. You’ll support backend security platforms used by SOC and security operations, focusing on stability, patching, and data integrity across Windows, Linux and cloud environments.

You will deepen capabilities with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and related tooling, while collaborating with SOC analysts, engineers and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable security services for multiple