Security Platform Engineer: SIEM/SOAR & Telemetry

Paxus; North Shore; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus is seeking a Security Platform Engineer to operate and enhance security telemetry platforms focusing on Google SecOps SIEM/SOAR and BindPlane. You will ensure reliable data ingestion, platform stability, and swift support for detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, and broader security operations.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with security platforms, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation tooling.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Google SecOps SIEM/SOAR platforms.
• Expertise in BindPlane or similar telemetry ingestion technologies.
• Strong understanding of log formats, schemas, parsing, enrichment, and data routing.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure).
• Experience troubleshooting data ingestion pipelines and performance issues.
• Ability to read and modify Python and Terraform code.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Strong incident support and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, and maintain Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR environments including tenancy setup, access controls, roles, and permissions.
• Operate and ensure ongoing health, performance, availability, and capacity of SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Implement platform configuration changes, upgrades, and feature enhancements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to platform stability, integrations, and data ingestion.
• Support detection enablement, platform access requests, and incident-related data queries.
• Configure, manage, and maintain BindPlane collectors, agents, and data ingestion pipelines.
• Oversee log and telemetry ingestion from cloud services, infrastructure, applications, and security tools.
• Design and maintain parsing, normalisation, enrichment, routing, and delivery pipelines.
• Route telemetry to Google SecOps SIEM, BigQuery, and other downstream platforms.
• Monitor BindPlane throughput, latency, error rates, data loss, and pipeline health.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, parsing errors, schema mismatches, and performance bottlenecks.
• Design scalable, resilient, cost-optimised telemetry ingestion architectures.
• Validate data quality, schema consistency, field mapping, and delivery guarantees to support detection and analytics use cases.

Skills

Google SecOps SIEM/SOAR

BindPlane

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

Job description

Paxus is seeking a Security Platform Engineer to operate and enhance security telemetry platforms focusing on Google SecOps SIEM/SOAR and BindPlane. You will ensure reliable data ingestion, platform stability, and swift support for detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, and broader security operations.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with security platforms, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation tooling.