Senior Defence Security Engineer - SOC & Threat Ops

00160 LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.; North Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Canberra is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the GEO SPACES mission critical networks. You will report to the GEO SPACES Security Operations Team Lead and work with Cyber Security Analysts to harden systems and manage central SIEM.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years in security operations, Australian citizenship with a TSPV clearance or ability to obtain DISA/OSA, and a track record of implementing security controls across Linux/Windows environments.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of security operations experience.
• Australian citizen with a TSPV clearance; DISA/OSA eligibility.
• Ability to work independently and with cyber security teams.
• Experience with system security controls and SIEM onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Review and implement OS, application, and network hardening per DSPF/ISM.
• Onboard systems logs to centralized SIEM; configure log forwarders.
• Deploy and configure security tools; perform detection engineering.
• Support incident response and threat intelligence activities.

Skills

Splunk SIEM

AWS security

EDR/XDR

Cloud Firewalls

IDAM

SOE hardening

Windows AD

Group Policy

Job description

Leidos in Canberra is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join the GEO SPACES mission critical networks. You will report to the GEO SPACES Security Operations Team Lead and work with Cyber Security Analysts to harden systems and manage central SIEM.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years in security operations, Australian citizenship with a TSPV clearance or ability to obtain DISA/OSA, and a track record of implementing security controls across Linux/Windows environments.