One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Senior SOC Cyber Analyst - APS6. This is a long-term contractual position.

Please check below all the job details:

• Contract Duration: 30 Months (06 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
• Work Location: Canberra (Onsite - 1 National Circuit, Barton ACT)
• Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above.
• Tentative Start Date: Jan 2026

Position Description:

The candidates will work across teams with other technicians in infrastructure, cloud, and corporate enterprise environments. Having skills or experience across these areas will be highly advantageous.

The successful candidate will also have a range of generalist skills, and will be able to work collaboratively with business, other system owners, and administrators to progress technology initiatives.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Monitor, investigate and mitigate cyber events using SIEM, SOAR and SOC related technologies.
• Conduct triage, analysis, and remediation of security incidents in a complex multi-technology environment.
• Perform proactive threat hunting and contribute to improved automation, monitoring and detection rules and response playbooks.
• Conduct investigations into human-risk factors, to identify anomalous user entity behaviour analytics.
• Prepare operational and executive reports on security incidents, identified risks, and emerging trends.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to support incident response activities and remediation efforts.
• Responsible for development of standard operating procedures related to cyber incident response.
• Facilitating knowledge transfer to the existing operational workforce.
• Provide support for incident response and remediation activities.

Technical skills:

• Experience using Sentinel or a similar SIEM solution is essential.
• In-depth familiarity with the Australian Government Information Security Manual and Compliance frameworks.
• In-depth familiarity with the best practice cyber security monitoring processes.
• Extensive experience in cyber incident response.
• Extensive experience in cyber security monitoring within, or for, other Federal government.

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive operational experience in a SOC or security operations role. Analysing logs from a complex ICT environment and responding to identified alerts.
• Proficiency with SIEM and SOAR platforms and related monitoring technologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Knowledge of existing cyber-attack tactics, techniques, and procedures with the ability to identify such activities within a SOC environment.
• Experience in design, development and management of SOC dashboards, reports, and playbooks.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in onboarding, pre-processing, and structuring new log sources to SIEM technologies.
• Experience proactive threat hunting activities and participate in incident response.

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to [email protected]

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates.