SOC Analyst

**Employment Type**:Permanent

**Closing Date**:18 Aug 2025 11:59pm

**Job Title**:SOC Analyst

**Job Summary**

As a SOC Analyst, you play an essential role in ensuring that Telstra provides an industry leading secure ecosystem for employees and customers. You leverage security expertise along with your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address cyber security incidents, risks and/or threats. You utilise best-practice tools, methodologies, processes and approaches in collaboration with your team to design and implement Telstra Cyber security framework components and control measures

Your continuous learning and improvement mindset and collaboration skills are critical to success in this role, as you continue to develop your knowledge and expertise in the Information and Cyber Security domain.

**Who We Are**

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

**Focus of the Role**

**The opportunity**

As a Junior SOC Analyst, you will be responsible for monitoring security alerts, triaging security events and analysing malware detections; along with also playing a key role in investigating critical security incidents and assisting in incident response for customers of Australia’s largest telecommunications network.

As a Junior SOC Analyst, you will have access to cutting-edge security technology that will assist in determining if a security incident has occurred using Telstra's vast technological landscape.

All analysts are mentored from day one and supported from both within the team as well as across the wider Cyber Security business unit. Our team does not operate on a strictly tiered model, which means that all analysts are empowered to investigate security incidents from detection to resolution, providing significant opportunities for growth in this exciting role.

**What We Offer**

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

Smartphone deals

Recognition of prior service for recent defence members; carry over of long service leave to Telstra

4 weeks paid defence leave for Defence Reserve members

**What You’ll Do**

Global Networks & Technology - Security & Operations is responsible for Telstra's security and operations, protecting Telstra's assets and infrastructure.
- Analyse event logs from platforms/devices to identity and triage security incidents.
- Respond to security incidents, within an SLA, following the incident response process to resolve information security incidents and threats.
- Identify gaps in the SOC’s cyber capability and help remediate the gaps - along with contributing to the improvement of processes and playbooks surrounding the capability.
- Collaborate with various teams across the organisation to facilitate an improved security posture.
- Support evidence collection requirements to ensure data gathered and reported is accurate and legally admissible.
- Investigate potential security threats and articulate implications on IT systems to various stakeholders for major incidents.
- Assist in the development and improvement of documentation that supports the business unit.
- Perform other tasks as directed by management from time to time.

**About You**
- Proven experience of 1-2 years working in a Cyber Security role - highly desirable.
- Recent IT, network, or cyber security tertiary education and/or industry qualifications
- Understanding of SIEM technologies.
- Experience or exposure using a range of cybersecurity tools and systems including Endpoint Detection & Response tooling such as Microsoft Defender and Crowdstrike Falcon.
- Experience or exposure using a range of cyber security tools and systems.
- Industry recognised network or security qualification (GSEC, CCNA/CCNP, OSDA, BTL1 or other related certification).
- Programming or coding ability in commonly used languages today.
- **Be eligible and willing to obtain an NV1 security clearance.**

**If you are looking to take the next step in your career, we want to hear from you**
- When you join our team, you will become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and abilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kin