Senior Security Engineer: Incident Response & Hunting

Kinetic IT; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Wellbeing resources

Employee discounts

Team events

Job summary

Kinetic IT is seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer in East Perth to lead complex cyber security investigations, perform advanced threat hunting, and drive incident response in a large enterprise environment.

You will mentor SOC staff, coordinate response activities, and continuously improve detection and response capabilities across the security stack, including Defender, Sentinel and Tenable.

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing complex environments.
• Experience with Sentinel, Defender or Tenable.
• Extensive vulnerability management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer facing abilities.
• Comfortable mentoring junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cyber security incident investigations from initial triage to resolution.
• Coordinate containment, eradication and recovery actions.
• Escalate actions beyond approved authority when needed.
• Lead advanced threat hunting and threat analysis to identify malicious activity.
• Develop and improve detection and response content.
• Provide guidance to SOC teams and perform post‑incident reviews.
• Preserve evidence and support investigation integrity.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Stakeholder mgmt

Mentoring juniors

Customer facing

Security investigations

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Tenable

Job description

Kinetic IT is seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer in East Perth to lead complex cyber security investigations, perform advanced threat hunting, and drive incident response in a large enterprise environment.

You will mentor SOC staff, coordinate response activities, and continuously improve detection and response capabilities across the security stack, including Defender, Sentinel and Tenable.