Elite Cyber Threat Engineer – Special Operations

CGR Services; Auckland; On-site; NZD 97,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully funded life cover

Critical illness protection

Discounted insurances

Will services

Mortgage guidance

Job summary

NZDF is seeking a highly skilled Cyber Threat Engineer in Auckland to identify, analyse, and mitigate cyber threats across sensitive environments. You will support secure cyber capabilities and work with Defence, Government, and international partners to protect critical information systems.

The role combines threat detection, incident response, security engineering, and R&D, with limited offsite work and a need for security clearance.

Qualifications

• Proactive cyber security professional with ability to think critically.
• Experience in monitoring, detecting, and mitigating cyber threats.
• Strong collaboration with diverse stakeholders across government and partners.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate, and respond to cyber security threats, incidents, and vulnerabilities.
• Lead detection and analysis of cyber attacks and suspicious network activity.
• Develop, implement, and maintain secure network and security solutions.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments, threat research, and intelligence analysis.
• Develop cyber capabilities across networking, systems, cloud, and emerging tech.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and allied partners.
• Provide expert cyber security advice to technical and operational teams.
• Contribute to cyber projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Cyber security monitoring

Threat detection

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Critical thinking

Education

Information Security degree

Tools

SIEM

IDS/IPS

Endpoint protection

Network packet analysis

Virtualisation

Windows

Linux

UNIX

Databases

Microsoft technologies

Job description

NZDF is seeking a highly skilled Cyber Threat Engineer in Auckland to identify, analyse, and mitigate cyber threats across sensitive environments. You will support secure cyber capabilities and work with Defence, Government, and international partners to protect critical information systems.

The role combines threat detection, incident response, security engineering, and R&D, with limited offsite work and a need for security clearance.