Senior Security Engineer - Defence SOC Canberra

Leidos Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in Canberra to join the GEO SPACES Security Operations capability. You will independently deliver security engineering tasks, onboard new systems with robust controls, and work closely with the Cyber Security Analysts and network teams.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years of security operations experience, Australian citizenship, and a current TSPV clearance, with readiness for a potential DISA/OSA process within a Defence context.

Qualifications

• Australian citizenship and active TSPV clearance.
• Willing to undergo DISA/OSA.
• 5–10 years’ experience delivering security operations functions, ideally in AGO/ASD/Defence contexts.

Responsibilities

• Review and implement OS, application and network hardening per DSPF/ISM controls.
• Onboard logs to centralised SIEM with log normalisation and forwarder configuration.
• Deploy and configure security tools.
• Conduct detection engineering, testing, validation and QA.
• Collaborate with network/operations to deliver security engineering for endpoints, networks and gateways.

Skills

SIEM (Splunk)

AWS security

EDR/XDR

Cloud/waf

IDAM

OS hardening

Windows AD

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in Canberra to join the GEO SPACES Security Operations capability. You will independently deliver security engineering tasks, onboard new systems with robust controls, and work closely with the Cyber Security Analysts and network teams.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years of security operations experience, Australian citizenship, and a current TSPV clearance, with readiness for a potential DISA/OSA process within a Defence context.