Senior Microsoft Defender & Vulnerability Engineer

Elysium Digital; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysium Digital is seeking an experienced Vulnerability Management Specialist to enhance enterprise vulnerability management across endpoints, servers, cloud platforms and security operations in a highly secure environment.

The role focuses on configuring Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities, improving visibility, conducting assessments, and driving remediation with cross-functional teams. NV1 clearance and 5+ years of relevant experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in vulnerability management, endpoint security, security operations or cyber security engineering within large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience administering and operating Microsoft Defender for Vulnerability Management and related Microsoft security technologies.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management processes, including asset visibility, vulnerability identification, validation and assessment, risk prioritisation, remediation and risk acceptance.
• Experience investigating vulnerability, endpoint and threat intelligence data and translating findings into actionable recommendations.
• Experience identifying and resolving security visibility, onboarding and configuration issues across enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to develop dashboards, reports, metrics and operational security views.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to drive remediation activities across multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure and optimise Microsoft Defender security capabilities, with a particular focus on vulnerability management.
• Monitor and improve endpoint and server security visibility, identifying coverage gaps, onboarding issues and data quality concerns.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and analyse findings from Microsoft Defender, threat intelligence feeds and other security data sources.
• Investigate emerging vulnerabilities, exploits and cyber threats to determine potential exposure and business impact.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application and cyber security teams to implement patches, mitigations and compensating controls.
• Support risk-based vulnerability prioritisation using threat intelligence, exploitability, asset criticality and operational context.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, metrics and operational views to improve visibility of vulnerabilities and remediation activities.
• Monitor remediation progress and drive outcomes through effective stakeholder engagement.
• Support integration and effective use of security information across the broader Microsoft security ecosystem, including Microsoft Sentinel where applicable.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen cyber resilience and vulnerability management maturity.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Endpoint security

Security operations

Threat intelligence

Dashboards & reporting

Stakeholder engagement

NV1 Security Clearance

Cloud security

Microsoft Defender

Cyber security

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Azure

Windows Server

Linux Platforms

Active Directory

Threat Intelligence Platforms

Job description

Elysium Digital is seeking an experienced Vulnerability Management Specialist to enhance enterprise vulnerability management across endpoints, servers, cloud platforms and security operations in a highly secure environment.

The role focuses on configuring Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities, improving visibility, conducting assessments, and driving remediation with cross-functional teams. NV1 clearance and 5+ years of relevant experience are preferred.