Asd 4, 5 & 6 Cyber Threat Hunt Analyst
1 week ago
$77,787.84 - $106,827.76 (plus 15.4% super)
- Brisbane CBD - QLD,Canberra - ACT,Melbourne CBD - VIC
**The Role**
We will strongly invest in your career by supplying you with rewarding opportunities, flexible working arrangements, comprehensive internal and external training, and a competitive employment package designed for skilled employees.
TTV Branch is seeking Cyber Threat Hunt Analysts that can analyses network and host activity to identify anomalous behaviour.
Successful applicants will hunt sophisticated actors subverting common EDR detection and mitigation techniques through developing and implementing innovative detection capabilities and analytical tradecraft, furthering the ACSC’s understanding of adversaries targeting Australia. We want you to join our team to assist the ACSC to defend against these advanced threats.
These are technical roles, requiring an aptitude for complex problem solving and the ability to conduct deep analysis of network communications and endpoint activities to unearth malicious tradecraft.
When not actively hunting, other key responsibilities within the role include development of documentation and processes such as playbooks, refining your skills through training opportunities and identifying and enhancing the capabilities of the team by developing opportunities for automation.
While formal experience in cyber security, specifically Threat Hunting or Incident Response, is desirable, ASD is also interested in applicants starting out in this field who have demonstrable experience in software development, programming or computer sciences, and who are interested in problem solving. Cyber threat hunting requires analysts to be curious, think outside the box, have an investigative mindset and be diligent in pursuing leads.
**About our Team**
ASD invites you to take the next step in your career.
We are looking for individuals with a passion for understanding, discovering and countering cyber threats impacting Australia and its interests.
The Technical Threats and Visibility (TTV) Branch in the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) detects adversaries targeting or exploiting Australian networks, through analysing their technical tools and tradecraft. The ACSC uses this deep understanding to defend and disrupt malicious activity from cyber threat actors.
ASD’s Cyber Threat Hunt Section is responsible for detecting sophisticated cyber threat actors that are silently present on important Australian networks. The Section uses custom tools, customer detections and all-source intelligence in its pursuit of undetected compromises.
There are vacant roles in this Section across Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne.
Host Forensics - Specializing in Disk Forensics (EDR or dead disk)
- Operating system principles and their underlying features such as file system structures, process and thread linkages, and registry
- Collection and analysis of host artefacts to discover anomalous or malicious behaviour
- Adversary mindset, how would they manipulate operating systems
Host Forensics - Specializing in Windows Memory Forensics
- Inner workings of memory including memory structures
- Collection and analysis of memory artefacts like crash-dumps, hibernation files or page/swap space identify anomalous or malicious activity
- Adversary mindset, how would they manipulate memory
- Structured and unstructured analysis
Network Forensics
- Network evidence types and sources
- Collection and analysis of network traffic to discover anomalous or malicious behaviour
- Network protocol analysis (e.g HTTP, DNS, SMTP) and how they are used and manipulated for malicious purposes.
Applicants need to demonstrate an ability to communicate their technical knowledge in a concise manner to non-technical audiences.
At the ASD 4 level, you must demonstrate aptitude and passion towards the above areas or related fields, and be progressing efforts to attain relevant technical skills.
At the ASD 5 level, you must demonstrate experience in the above areas or related fields, and possess relevant technical skills. You must be able to work, when required, in isolation to carry out threat hunting activities with mínimal oversight.
At the ASD 6 level, you must demonstrate significant experience in the above areas or related fields, and possess well-developed technical skills. It is expected that you will show leadership on bodies of work relevant to your areas of expertise. You are expected to be able to deliver comprehensive Hunts in isolation or as part of a team without supervision.
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