Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

JobSpace; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social events

Remote working

Flexi-hours

Professional development courses

Job summary

Datacom is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join its Cyber Defence Operations Centre (CDOC) in New Zealand. You will own critical platforms, drive security improvements, and lead incident response with cross-functional teams.

You will monitor threat intel, configure secure environments, and apply security controls across diverse tools. A strong focus on networks, MITRE ATT&CK, and enterprise security vendors is essential.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a technical cybersecurity role, with Cyber Operations experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of security operations, incident response, and threat intel.
• Hands-on with modern security tools and platforms, including SIEM/XDR.
• Customer-centric approach and ability to work across teams and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and OS command-line tools.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and related standards.

Responsibilities

• Own critical CDOC platforms and drive security improvements.
• Configure and maintain secure environments and access controls.
• Lead incident response efforts with cross-functional teams.
• Monitor threat intel feeds and identify emerging threats.
• Research threat actors, TTPs, and attacker motives.

Skills

Cyber operations

Incident response

Threat intelligence

Security operations

Customer focus

Tools

SIEM

XDR

Endpoint protection

Identity security

Secure access solutions

MITRE ATT&CK

Zscaler

CrowdStrike

Microsoft security tools

Job description

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Are you a seasoned cybersecurity professional looking for your next challenge? We're looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Cyber Defence Operations Centre (CDOC) team and play a key role in protecting our clients' most critical systems and infrastructure.

About the Role

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our CDOC operations, taking ownership of critical platforms, driving security improvements, and helping shape how we defend against today's most sophisticated threats. You'll work across a diverse range of tools and environments, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our clients' most critical systems, while continuously raising the bar across our security operations and leading by example.

What You'll Do

• Configure and update hardware and software to maintain secure, reliable environments
• Establish and manage user accounts and access controls
• Oversee and conduct backup and recovery tasks
• Implement operational and technical security controls in line with organisational policies
• Monitor and analyse open-source and proprietary threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Conduct in-depth research on threat actors, their TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and their motives
• Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to contain and mitigate the impact of security breaches

What You'll Bring

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role – Experience in Cyber Operations preferred.
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to manage your own workload
• Advanced understanding of the tools, techniques, and procedures modern attackers use to compromise organisations
• A customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
• Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and operating system command-line tools
• Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
• Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
• Understanding of IT user security policies including account creation, password rules, and access control
• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and standards like STIX/TAXII
• Experience working with leading security technologies and platforms is highly desirable, including SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity security, and secure access solutions from major enterprise security vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and similar technologies.
• Exposure to working on Intelligence platforms will be highly regarded

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You'll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand's largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.