Position: Cybersecurity Threat Hunter (Intermediate/Senior)
Datacom Location: Brisbane only in Australia, All of New Zealand
Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
Datacom Cybersecurity Defence Operations Centre (CDOC) operates out of three locations Wellington, Auckland, and Brisbane from where we provide a full stack of Cybersecurity services including managed SOC/SIEM/EDR.
Our Cybersecurity Defence Operations Centre is a well-established team made up of Cybersecurity Analysts, Platform Engineers, Automation Specialists, Threat Intel Analysts, Threat Hunters and Incident Responders who have been managing customers, both commercial and government, for over 10+ years. We are a matured operational team that not only responds to security events, incidents, and triggers, we proactively hunt for anomalous, suspicious, and potentially unwanted activities within our customers environment.
We partner with industry leaders to provide our services and to provide you with a broad technical skillset, certifications, and experience.
About The Role (Your Why)
We are currently looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (“CSIRT”) as a Cybersecurity Threat Hunter. CSIRT is a specialist function of CDOC who provide proactive and reactive expertise for major cybersecurity incidents. In this role, you will proactively identify and neutralise potential cyber threats in Datacom as well as its customer’s environments. Your expertise in cyber security, data analysis, and threat intelligence will be crucial in detecting and responding to emerging threats.
Additionally, you will conduct compromise assessments to uncover any potential security breaches. We are seeking a candidate who has a strong understanding of the evolving cyber threat landscape and possesses excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
As per the job title, we are keen to speak to Intermediate or Senior Threat Hunters and the final position title will be discussed with the successful applicant, so whether you are a seasoned Threat Hunter with DFIR or Senior SOC experience or someone on your way to becoming such a person, you will be considered for this role.
* Important Note *
Due to the nature of the clients you will be working with you will need to be a current AU (or NZ) Citizen/Permanent Resident and have the ability to pass additional security clearances which will require you to have lived in a five-eyes country for the last 5 years. We do however consider work visas for other opportunities across Datacom so please keep an eye on our careers page for any roles of interest.
What You’ll Do
As a Cybersecurity Threat Hunter, your primary responsibility will be to develop and execute threat hunt missions to locate and respond to previously undetected adversary activities.
You will actively participate in investigations focused on threat actors, help Senior Analysts create new detection methodologies, and provide expert support to incident response functions.
The main focus of your role will be to detect, disrupt, and eradicate the presence of threat actors from enterprise networks. To accomplish this mission, you will utilise data analysis, threat intelligence, and state-of-the-art security technologies.
You will also directly support the CDOC by applying your analytical and technical skills to investigate intrusions, identify malicious activity and potential insider threats, and carry out incident response activities.
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What You’ll Bring
The Person Will Have Proven Experience in a role similar to:
Why Join Us Here at Datacom?
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.