Threat Detection Analyst (Hybrid Working)

The Team

SEEK’s Cyber Security team is multi-disciplinary with a wide variety of security skills and responsibilities across a broad variety of areas. While we do have separate security sub-teams, we have adopted a focus on cross-functional security expertise development, allowing team members to continue to grow professional expertise proficiency in a wide range of security concentrations.

The team is positioned well within the company to implement quickly and against things that matter. Team members are empowered to identify security control gaps or risks within the organisation and work toward effective mitigation. We have executive support, and you will have the ability to influence the security posture of our staff helping progress SEEK’s purpose of helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed.

The Role

SEEK is looking for a Threat Detection Analyst to join the Security team. In this role, you will join a versatile, highly collaborative team working to address security threats across the company. You will contribute to the development and execution of SEEK’s overall Cyber Security strategy, focusing on monitoring and responding to both internal and external threats, ensuring the safety and security of SEEK and its customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform real-time monitoring, triage, investigation, and escalation of security alerts and security requests raised by various security systems.
• Engineer, deploy and maintain detection rules to enhance threat identification capabilities.
• Perform detailed analysis and investigations including log reviews and preparation of reports and briefings for leadership.
• Implement and optimise automated processes for ingesting security logs and indicators of compromise from a diverse range of sources.
• Engage with a wide range of stakeholders including senior management, Risk, Legal, HR and law enforcement.
• Assist in the development and maturation the emerging proactive intelligence and threat detection capability policies and procedures, including insider threat, threat intelligence and threat hunting.
• Develop and report on security metrics to reflect the proactive intelligence and threat detection capability.
• Ensure adherence to legislation, internal policies and governance frameworks for threat detection and mitigation.
• Utilise both internal and OSINT sources to perform threat assessments and identify emerging security threats.
• Inspire and support a security culture across the organisation to ensure security, trust and privacy are embedded in our ways of working.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Below you will find the requirements for this role. Even if you do not meet all these requirements but feel that you have an outstanding skill that you bring to the team and a high motivation to grow in other areas, we strongly encourage you to apply.

• 3 to 5 years of experience in security operations, threat analysis, intelligence, or a related field.
• Excellent problem solving, analytic and investigative skills relating to threat detection, insider threat or security intelligence investigations.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated experience with building relationship withing the Security community and working with industry bodies and stakeholders.
• Ability to perform hands on technical analysis and log review from various technologies including endpoint detection, email filtering, SIEM, and more.
• Capable of working independently and in a collaborative team environment to tackle problems

Desirable Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Passion for continued professional development and ongoing learning.
• Professional information security related certifications.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Desire to participate within the security community through events and conferences, supporting the sharing of information security knowledge and expertise

Perks and benefits 
At SEEK we offer: 

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role. 
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year 
• Casual dress – every day 

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart. 

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us. 

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist. 

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered. 

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.