Senior Cyber Defense & Incident Response Analyst

5060 Kyndryl Australia Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work culture

Career development programs

Job summary

Kyndryl Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Analyst to protect customer and internal environments. You will lead investigations from alert triage through containment, remediation, and recovery, using SIEMs and endpoint telemetry to detect and respond to threats.

Join a hybrid, growth‑minded team that values mentoring, certified training, and hands‑on security engineering. You’ll build detections, perform threat hunting, and collaborate across security and engineering to

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, or cyber defense roles.
• Hands-on experience managing security incidents through the full investigation lifecycle.
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic, LogRhythm, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations from alert triage through containment, remediation and recovery.
• Develop and tune detections and security analytics.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting and leverage threat intelligence.
• Collaborate with security teams across the organization to identify indicators of compromise.

Skills

Cybersecurity operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

SIEM

Threat intelligence

Digital forensics

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

XDR (Palo Alto)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

QRadar

Elastic

Job description

Kyndryl Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Analyst to protect customer and internal environments. You will lead investigations from alert triage through containment, remediation, and recovery, using SIEMs and endpoint telemetry to detect and respond to threats.

Join a hybrid, growth‑minded team that values mentoring, certified training, and hands‑on security engineering. You’ll build detections, perform threat hunting, and collaborate across security and engineering to