Senior XDR & Endpoint Security Engineer — Contract

Needus; Sydney; On-site; AUD 203,000 - 231,000; Part time

Job summary

Needus is seeking an experienced Senior XDR/Endpoint Security Engineer for a 12+ month contract in Australia. The role focuses on hands-on EDR/XDR security, incident response, and SOC collaboration to detect and respond to threats across enterprise endpoints.

The ideal candidate has practical experience with Cortex XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, or Defender for Endpoint and can tune detections and collaborate with security teams to strengthen operations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Cortex XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon EDR/XDR or Defender for Endpoint.
• SOC or security operations experience.
• Strong endpoint detection, threat investigation and incident response skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across endpoints.
• Manage and optimize EDR/XDR security platforms.
• Conduct threat detection, investigation, and incident response activities.
• Analyse endpoint telemetry for suspicious activity and breaches.
• Develop and tune detection rules, policies and alerts.
• Support threat hunting and incident remediation.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts and incident response teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection coverage and reduce false positives.

Skills

Cortex XDR

CrowdStrike Falcon EDR/XDR

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint/XDR

Tools

SIEM/SOAR

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Needus is seeking an experienced Senior XDR/Endpoint Security Engineer for a 12+ month contract in Australia. The role focuses on hands-on EDR/XDR security, incident response, and SOC collaboration to detect and respond to threats across enterprise endpoints.

The ideal candidate has practical experience with Cortex XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, or Defender for Endpoint and can tune detections and collaborate with security teams to strengthen operations.