Senior Cyber Threat Hunter & Incident Response Lead

IT Alliance Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Alliance Australia in Canberra seeks a Lead Cyber Threat Analyst on a 12-month contract to strengthen the agency’s cyber posture. The role focuses on proactive threat hunting, intrusion investigations and incident response, reporting on threat modelling and intelligence.

Citizenship and holding Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance are mandatory. The Senior role requires malware analysis, AI engineering awareness, and collaboration across cyber teams to deliver actionable findings.

Qualifications

• Experience in proactive threat hunting and incident response.
• Ability to translate findings into threat models and reports.
• Experience mentoring staff in cyber defense.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive threat hunting, intrusion investigations and incident response.
• Investigate suspicious activity, malicious domains, network traffic and endpoint threats.
• Develop threat models, hunt hypotheses and actionable intelligence reports.
• Analyse vulnerabilities, security risks and recommend remediation.
• Develop detection rules, automated playbooks and security workflows.
• Collaborate with cyber teams, engage stakeholders and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Threat modelling

Digital forensics

Mentoring

Tools

Microsoft Defender XDR

Elastic/Kibana

ExtraHop

Linux

Threat Intelligence

SIEM/EDR

Job description

IT Alliance Australia in Canberra seeks a Lead Cyber Threat Analyst on a 12-month contract to strengthen the agency’s cyber posture. The role focuses on proactive threat hunting, intrusion investigations and incident response, reporting on threat modelling and intelligence.

Citizenship and holding Negative Vetting Level 1 clearance are mandatory. The Senior role requires malware analysis, AI engineering awareness, and collaboration across cyber teams to deliver actionable findings.