
Senior Analyst, Cyber Defence
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At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined. That's why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow, and deliver better outcomes for members.
Your New Role
Reporting to the Manager, Cyber Defence, your new role as Senior Lead Analyst will see you playing a critical role in safeguarding the Fund's digital assets by leading advanced threat detection, incident response, and proactive threat hunting activities. As a senior escalation point, your role is responsible for managing complex security incidents and investigations, leveraging threat intelligence, and ensuring the effective delivery of cyber defence operations.
You will work closely with internal operational teams, business units, and the Fund's Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) to ensure cohesive, high-quality security outcomes. You will also contribute to the uplift of detection capabilities, analytics, and automation, while mentoring team members and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
Key duties include but are not limited to:
Acting as the escalation point for major incidents or threat indicators, including assessing, triaging, and resolving incidents/threats.
Conducting user-based investigations and hypothesis-driven threat hunts to proactively identify advanced threats and anomalous behaviour.
Operationalising threat intelligence feeds to enhance detection rules, hunting hypotheses, and incident response strategies.
Performing log analysis to identify threats, trends/regular patterns, control weaknesses, and providing recommendations to improve detection/prevention controls.
Extend/uplift monitoring analytics, dashboards, or automation derived from alert escalation, log analysis, threat hunting, or incident response.
Developing new and/or uplifting existing processes and procedures for continuous monitoring and detection operations, including incident response plans and runbooks.
Representing as a technical expert for strategic project initiatives that require Cyber Defence SME.
Leveraging AI-driven tools, including Microsoft Security Copilot, to enhance threat detection, automate investigation workflows, and accelerate incident response.
What You'll Need
5+ years working within the technology security field, with emphasis on incident management.
Demonstrated experience with security tools and technologies such as SIEM and EDR solutions.
Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Exceptional organisational skills and disciplined work approach.
Ability to adapt to continually changing demands and priorities.
Adaptability and resilience in a high-pressure, fast-paced environments.
Certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) or SANS Certifications.
Project experience, especially in security tool implementation, tuning, or security capability uplift initiatives
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework for mapping adversary tactics and techniques to detection and response strategies
Familiarity with APRA Prudential Standards (e.g., CPS 234 - Information Security) and how they apply to operational security practices
Experience with cloud security and virtualisation technologies.
Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies, and methods.
Knowledge of disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods.
Life at AustralianSuper
AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we're happy to discuss what this looks like for you.
We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity. We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.
What's Next
Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.
Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required.
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Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper's Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.
Seniority level- Seniority levelMid-Senior level
- Employment typeFull-time
- Job functionAnalyst, Finance, and Information Technology
- IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting and IT System Operations and Maintenance
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