Senior Security Automation & Incident Response Engineer

CrowdStrike; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation and equity

Comprehensive wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Paid parental and adoption leaves

Professional development opportunities

Employee Networks and volunteer roles

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer II to design, build, and scale automation and tooling for internal security operations.

You’ll partner with CSIRT/TIDE to reduce false positives, improve detections, and operationalize threat intelligence across cloud and on-premise environments. The role emphasizes hands-on incident response experience, software engineering, and modern DevOps practices, with opportunities to advance AI-enabled security capabilities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to cybersecurity incidents in a SOC, CSIRT, or Incident Response team.
• Experience developing software using Python, Go, or another modern programming language.
• Experience building automation, APIs, or systems integrations.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Understanding of Linux, networking, authentication, and enterprise security technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, identity, or cloud security platforms.
• Experience with security telemetry, log analytics, or detection engineering.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting methodologies, or threat intelligence.
• Experience applying AI or machine learning to improve security operations and engineering workflows.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Automate workflows to accelerate incident handling and improve operational efficiency.
• Design, implement, and maintain security detections across diverse technologies and data sources.
• Develop and maintain detection, enrichment, and response pipelines for scalable security operations.
• Build integrations between security platforms, cloud services, and internal systems.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence to operationalize threat intelligence through detections and automation.

Skills

Incident response

Python

Go

APIs

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Threat intel

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer II to design, build, and scale automation and tooling for internal security operations.

You’ll partner with CSIRT/TIDE to reduce false positives, improve detections, and operationalize threat intelligence across cloud and on-premise environments. The role emphasizes hands-on incident response experience, software engineering, and modern DevOps practices, with opportunities to advance AI-enabled security capabilities.