Senior Security Engineer, Defence SOC Specialist

Leidos; Canberra; Sur place; AUD 130 000 - 170 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Leidos in Canberra is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join GEO SPACES, delivering security operations for mission‑critical networks. You will work with Cyber Security Analysts and system engineers to implement security controls, deploy SIEM, and support incident response across OS, cloud, and on‑premise environments.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years in security operations, hands‑on experience with Splunk, AWS security tools, EDR/XDR, and OS hardening for Linux and Windows.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years’ experience delivering security operations and engineering functions.
• Hands-on with SIEM, cloud security tools and incident response activities.
• Experience with OS hardening and enterprise IAM is preferred.

Responsabilités

• Review and implement system security controls across OS, apps, and networks.
• Onboard logs into centralized SIEM with normalization and forwarders.
• Deploy and configure security tools; develop playbooks and QA SOC activities.
• Support threat intel, vulnerability management, and incident response efforts.
• Collaborate with network/ops teams and external partners for security alignment.

Connaissances

Security operations

Incident response

Splunk

Cloud security

EDR/XDR

Outils

Splunk SIEM

AWS security tools

EDR/XDR tools

Web app firewall

IDAM

OS hardening (Linux/Windows)

Description du poste

Leidos in Canberra is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join GEO SPACES, delivering security operations for mission‑critical networks. You will work with Cyber Security Analysts and system engineers to implement security controls, deploy SIEM, and support incident response across OS, cloud, and on‑premise environments.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years in security operations, hands‑on experience with Splunk, AWS security tools, EDR/XDR, and OS hardening for Linux and Windows.