Senior Cloud Security Engineer

TheDriveGroup; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join an established cyber security team in Sydney. The role combines hands-on security engineering with cyber uplift, spanning SIEM/XDR, cloud security, incident response, and automation to scale security processes.

You will apply Python tooling, detection-as-code, and DevOps practices while exploring practical AI applications across security operations and engineering.

Qualifications

• Strong experience across Security Engineering, Detection Engineering or senior Security Operations
• Hands-on experience with SIEM and XDR technologies
• Strong understanding of detection engineering, security monitoring and incident response
• Python scripting and automation experience
• Experience securing AWS and/or Azure environments
• Understanding of CI/CD, Git and modern DevOps/DevSecOps practices
• Experience with threat hunting, MITRE ATT&CK and attacker behaviours
• An engineering mindset with the ability to identify problems and build scalable solutions
• Exposure to AI within cyber security or automation would be advantageous

Responsibilities

• Engineer and continuously improve SIEM, XDR and security monitoring capabilities
• Build, test and tune high-quality security detections
• Support complex incident response, investigations and threat hunting
• Improve security visibility and telemetry across AWS and Azure
• Develop Python tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive security processes
• Apply detection-as-code, Git, CI/CD and DevOps practices to security engineering
• Work across vulnerability management, remediation and wider security uplift initiatives
• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to improve security operations
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve security controls and visibility
• Help mature security processes rather than simply maintaining existing tooling

Skills

Security Engineering

Detection Engineering

Python scripting

Automation

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

Tools

SIEM

XDR

AWS

Azure

SOAR

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join an established cyber security team and help build, automate and mature its security capability.

This is roughly 50% hands-on Security Engineering and 50% cyber uplift. You'll work across SIEM/XDR, detection, cloud security and incident response, while using Python, DevOps practices and automation to make security processes more scalable and effective.

There's also a strong focus on exploring how AI can be practically applied across security operations and engineering.

What you'll do

• Engineer and continuously improve SIEM, XDR and security monitoring capabilities
• Build, test and tune high-quality security detections
• Support complex incident response, investigations and threat hunting
• Improve security visibility and telemetry across AWS and Azure
• Develop Python tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive security processes
• Apply detection-as-code, Git, CI/CD and DevOps practices to security engineering
• Work across vulnerability management, remediation and wider security uplift initiatives
• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to improve security operations
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve security controls and visibility
• Help mature security processes rather than simply maintaining existing tooling

What you'll bring

• Strong experience across Security Engineering, Detection Engineering or senior Security Operations
• Hands-on experience with SIEM and XDR technologies
• Strong understanding of detection engineering, security monitoring and incident response
• Python scripting and automation experience
• Experience securing AWS and/or Azure environments
• Understanding of CI/CD, Git and modern DevOps/DevSecOps practices
• Experience with threat hunting, MITRE ATT&CK and attacker behaviours
• An engineering mindset with the ability to identify problems and build scalable solutions
• Experience with SOAR, security data pipelines or automated remediation would be highly regarded
• Exposure to AI within cyber security or automation would be advantageous

Why apply?

This isn't a role where you'll spend your time simply responding to alerts.

You'll have the opportunity to build and improve security capability, automate manual processes and influence how security engineering is delivered across the organisation.

It's ideal for someone who wants to stay technically hands-on while broadening their experience across cloud, automation, DevSecOps and AI-driven security.

If you have any questions about this role or others we have available, you can email Hayley directly via ******@thedrivegroup.com.au

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