Senior Microsoft Sentinel & SOAR Engineer (Contract)

Decipher Bureau; Sydney; On-site; AUD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily rate up to AUD 1100

Job summary

Decipher Bureau is seeking a Senior Cyber Operations Engineer for a 12-month contract in Sydney. You will own Microsoft Sentinel engineering, build and govern SOAR playbooks, and work with an MDR provider to strengthen detections across a hybrid environment.

The role demands hands-on expertise with security tooling, vulnerability reporting and edge protection, delivering outcomes as the internal SME. Sydney-based, daily rates apply.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Microsoft Sentinel experience including ingestion pipelines, DCRs and log tier optimisation.
• Experience building SOAR playbooks in Azure Logic Apps using REST APIs.
• Experience with or governing an MDR provider or managed SOC, including detection engineering against MITRE ATT&CK.
• Hands-on with Tenable and WAS scanning, Akamai App & API Protector or Illumio.
• Enterprise network and DNS security in hybrid environments; scripting in PowerShell or Python.

Responsibilities

• Microsoft Sentinel engineering: ingestion pipelines, Data Collection Rules and log tier optimisation to balance retention vs cost.
• SOAR automation: building Azure Logic Apps playbooks for containment and MFA triggers.
• Managed SOC/MDR governance: internal SME on escalations, refining runbooks and validating detections.

Skills

Microsoft Sentinel

SOAR

MDR

Tenable

WAS

Akamai App & API Protector

Illumio

PowerShell

Python

Tools

Azure Logic Apps

Job description

Decipher Bureau is seeking a Senior Cyber Operations Engineer for a 12-month contract in Sydney. You will own Microsoft Sentinel engineering, build and govern SOAR playbooks, and work with an MDR provider to strengthen detections across a hybrid environment.

The role demands hands-on expertise with security tooling, vulnerability reporting and edge protection, delivering outcomes as the internal SME. Sydney-based, daily rates apply.