Senior Security Engineer – Automation & Threat Detection

CrowdStrike Inc.; Rockhampton Regional; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leader compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leaves

Professional development

Employee networks and community groups

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer II to design and build automation, tooling, and engineering capabilities that strengthen CrowdStrike's internal security operations.

You’ll work in the CSIRT-aligned TIDE team to rapidly detect, investigate, and respond to threats within CrowdStrike’s environment. Ideal candidates will have hands-on incident response experience, proficiency in Python or Go, cloud platform skills (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), and strong CI/CD, IaC, and security tooling

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to cybersecurity incidents in a SOC/CSIRT/IR team.
• Experience developing software using Python, Go, or another modern language.
• Experience building automation, APIs, or systems integrations.
• Experience working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Understanding of Linux, networking, authentication, and enterprise security technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Experience CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or other IaC technologies.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, identity, or cloud security platforms.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting, or threat intelligence.
• Experience applying AI/ML to improve security operations and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Improve Incident Response Operations by identifying challenges and engineering scalable solutions.
• Automate repetitive investigative and response workflows to reduce manual effort.
• Design solutions to improve investigative efficiency, enrich security data, and simplify analyst workflows.
• Build capabilities that improve visibility and reduce operational overhead for responders.
• Design, implement, and maintain security detections across multiple data sources.
• Develop and maintain detection, enrichment, and response pipelines for scalable operations.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence to operationalize intel through detections and automation.
• Build automation, integrations, and internal tooling to improve security operations.
• Engineer reliable, cloud-native capabilities using CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern software practices.

Skills

Python

Go

Automation

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Incident response

Cloud platforms

Linux

Networking

AI/ML in security

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer II to design and build automation, tooling, and engineering capabilities that strengthen CrowdStrike's internal security operations.

You’ll work in the CSIRT-aligned TIDE team to rapidly detect, investigate, and respond to threats within CrowdStrike’s environment. Ideal candidates will have hands-on incident response experience, proficiency in Python or Go, cloud platform skills (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), and strong CI/CD, IaC, and security tooling