SOC Security Engineer - Splunk & Detection

Macquarie Technology Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Macquarie Technology Group in Canberra is seeking a Security Engineer to join our growing cyber security team. The role focuses on hands-on Splunk work, log onboarding, detection engineering and security monitoring in a SOC environment.

You will onboard logs, develop detection logic, investigate alerts, and support incident triage across client environments. This on-site position requires Australian citizenship and security clearance eligibility, with opportunities to grow technical capability

Qualifications

• 1. 18 months to 4 years of experience in a SOC or cyber security environment.
• 2. Hands-on experience with Splunk log onboarding, use case development, detection engineering and security monitoring.
• 3. Understanding of how security data flows into a SIEM and developing detections.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents in the SOC.
• Onboard and integrate new log sources into Splunk; write data inputs and validate data quality.
• Develop and optimise Splunk searches, dashboards, alerts, and detection logic to improve threat detection.

Skills

Splunk

Log onboarding

Detection engineering

Security monitoring

Incident response

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Macquarie Technology Group in Canberra is seeking a Security Engineer to join our growing cyber security team. The role focuses on hands-on Splunk work, log onboarding, detection engineering and security monitoring in a SOC environment.

You will onboard logs, develop detection logic, investigate alerts, and support incident triage across client environments. This on-site position requires Australian citizenship and security clearance eligibility, with opportunities to grow technical capability