SOC Threat Detection Analyst — Contract (Sydney CBD)

NTT DATA, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. in Sydney is seeking a SOC Threat Detection Analyst on a 2.5 month contract to monitor, triage and respond to security events in a large SOC environment. You will engineer detections, analyze logs, and generate reports using leading SIEMs such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Google SecOps.

Immediate start and collaboration with global teams are required. The role emphasizes threat detection engineering, incident response, and continuous improvement of security operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) environment.
• Knowledge of log analysis, event correlation and detection engineering.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security events, alerts and incidents using enterprise SIEM platforms.
• Perform incident triage, analysis, escalation and response within SOC.
• Create and tune threat detection rules, correlations, alerts and use cases.
• Analyse logs and telemetry from multiple data sources to identify threats.
• Conduct routine SOC operations, health checks and monitoring.
• Produce security reports, dashboards and threat trend analyses.
• Collaborate with security teams to improve detection and response capabilities.

Skills

SOC operations

Threat detection

Incident triage

Log analysis

Communication

Education

Cyber Security / Information Security related degree

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Google SecOps

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. in Sydney is seeking a SOC Threat Detection Analyst on a 2.5 month contract to monitor, triage and respond to security events in a large SOC environment. You will engineer detections, analyze logs, and generate reports using leading SIEMs such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Google SecOps.

Immediate start and collaboration with global teams are required. The role emphasizes threat detection engineering, incident response, and continuous improvement of security operations.