Senior Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

JobSpace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DEFEND is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Operations Analyst to strengthen our world-class cyber resilience. The role focuses on advanced investigations, threat detection, exposure management, and incident response, with an initial emphasis on emerging security technologies including AI security, cloud security, and runtime security.

You will drive security operations across multiple domains and deliver clear reporting to clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience performing advanced investigations across diverse environments (endpoint, identity, cloud, network, application, AI).
• Ability to assess vulnerability data and support risk-based remediation prioritisation.
• Experience performing risk assessments for critical vulnerabilities and documenting findings.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, application, and AI environments.
• Assess vulnerability and exposure data to identify material risk and support risk-based remediation prioritisation.
• Perform risk assessments for critical and zero-day vulnerabilities, documenting findings and supporting risk exception processes.
• Support the operationalisation of emerging Cyber Defence capabilities across AI security, cloud security, runtime security, asset security, and exposure management.
• Own and develop technologies and services after they transition to BAU operations.
• Produce clear customer and stakeholder reporting covering incidents, vulnerabilities, exposure, risk, and recommended actions.

Job description

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At DEFEND, we deliver world-class cyber resilience through engineered solutions and expert frontline defence. Our Senior Cybersecurity Operations Analysts provide advanced investigation, threat detection, exposure management, and incident response capability. They handle complex and ambiguous security issues, act as a technical escalation point, and improve the effectiveness, quality and consistency of security operations. This role has an initial focus on emerging security technologies, including AI security, exposure management, cloud security, and runtime security.

In this role you'll...

• Perform advanced investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, application, and AI environments.


• Assess vulnerability and exposure data to identify material risk and support risk-based remediation prioritisation.


• Perform risk assessments for critical and zero-day vulnerabilities, documenting findings and supporting risk exception processes.


• Support the operationalisation of emerging Cyber Defence capabilities across AI security, cloud security, runtime security, asset security, and exposure management.


• Own and develop technologies and services after they transition to business-as-usual (BAU) operations.


• Produce clear customer and stakeholder reporting covering incidents, vulnerabilities, exposure, risk, and recommended actions.