Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Talenza; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza in Sydney seeks a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to elevate enterprise detection capabilities. This hands-on role concentrates on crafting high-quality detections, enhancing security monitoring, and conducting threat hunting to bolster threat visibility and response readiness.

You will collaborate with SOC, Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams to strengthen monitoring, reduce cyber risk, and drive SOC maturity through automation and robust detection content.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in detection engineering, security operations or security analytics.
• Hands-on with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar or Elastic.
• Experience building detection rules, correlation logic and behavioral analytics.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and modern attack techniques.
• Experience with EDR/XDR platforms and threat hunting methodologies.
• Scripting ability using Python, PowerShell, or KQL.
• Ability to translate threat intelligence into actionable detections.
• Strong analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop threat detections across SIEM, EDR and XDR platforms.
• Create detection use cases aligned to adversary TTPs and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Conduct threat hunting to identify emerging threats and gaps.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection content.
• Tune detection rules to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
• Collaborate with Incident Response to develop detections from real incidents.
• Validate detections through attack simulations and testing.
• Implement automation and SOAR capabilities to improve operations.
• Identify monitoring gaps and improve visibility across cloud, endpoint, identity and network.
• Develop reporting and metrics to measure detection effectiveness and SOC maturity.

Skills

Threat detection design

Threat hunting

Security analytics

Scripting

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

QRadar

Elastic

Job description

Talenza in Sydney seeks a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to elevate enterprise detection capabilities. This hands-on role concentrates on crafting high-quality detections, enhancing security monitoring, and conducting threat hunting to bolster threat visibility and response readiness.

You will collaborate with SOC, Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams to strengthen monitoring, reduce cyber risk, and drive SOC maturity through automation and robust detection content.