Cyber Threat Defence Analyst

Your first-class technical skills are required to continuously identify, assess, and manage threats relative to the corporate risk appetite by leveraging technology and your experience to analyze data. Experience in log aggregation and analysis will be crucial in detecting and triaging potential or active security incidents.

Your understanding of cyber threat as a function of human motivation, combined with your experience in actively detecting and defending against that threat utilizing a combination of standard cyber tools and your own system/platform/network knowledge, will be highly beneficial in this role alongside your similarly skilled and experienced peers.

As part of our global 24x7 defense methodology, this role provides coverage of weekend days (Saturday and Sunday) in-region. Analyst schedules will adjust to cover weekends once training has been completed and will be supported by senior on-call analysts.

Role
- and level-specific training is provided along with ongoing and annual training for each analyst as part of the team development plan, understanding that actor methodologies are constantly advancing so our analysts must evolve to stay ahead of our adversaries.

To be successful in this role you must have a minimum of 1 to 2 years of related security experience in enterprise environments. A strong understanding of security technology and defense topologies are imperative to be successful in this role.

**What is the job?**
- Triage active alerts and campaigns for potential systemic threats to our global business
- Proactively seek out suspicious activity and threats within the environment, act appropriately to contain and mitigate them
- Perform real-time detection, analysis, and response to threats via an EDR tool
- Analyze attacks and trends facing the organization and industry to better define proactive defensive measures
- Track, provide, and present analysis into observed attacks against Macquarie
- Take proactive actions to have observed brand impersonating and malicious sites removed
- Review processes, defense plane, technologies, and alerts in search of improvement
- Splunk or other large log aggregation system
- An Endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform
- Analytical mindset
- Offensive Security/Adversarial mindset
- Familiarity with various network or cloud architectures
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UBA/UEBA)

**About the Corporate Operations Group**

The Corporate Operations Group brings together specialist support services in Digital Transformation & Data, Technology, Operations, Human Resources, Business Services, Business Improvement & Strategy, and the Macquarie Group Foundation. We deliver service excellence to ensure Macquarie is open for business, deliver on transformational change, invest in our people and have deep relationships with our customers.

**Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion**

The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths. An inclusive and equitable environment enables us to deliver innovative and sustainable outcomes for our people, clients, shareholders and communities. From day one, you'll be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best. If our purpose of ‘empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future’ is as inspiring to you as it is to us, please apply. With the right technology, support and resources, our people can work in a range of flexible ways.

**About Macquarie**:
A career at Macquarie means you’ll have the opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world—whether it’s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we’re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Our size and international presence means your work can take you anywhere—across business groups, disciplines, sectors and borders. With 18,000+ employees and offices in 33 markets around the world, we’re a truly global organisation.

You’ll be supported by a diverse team where the unique perspectives, ideas and experiences that all of our people bring are valued. You’ll be empowered to address unmet needs in our communities whilst advising and investing alongside our clients and partners. Working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference.

Macquarie is a global financial group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising and principal investment.

**Job no**: COG-964912
- **Work type**: Permanent - Full time
- **Location**: Sydney
- **Category**: Mid-level, Junior, Technology
- **Group**: Corporate Operations Group
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