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Cyber Defence Analytics Researcher

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year

Cyber Defence Analytics Researcher

See yourself in our team:

Cyber Security protects the bank and our customers from theft, loss and risk events, through effective and proactive management of cyber security, privacy and operational risk.

This role sits within Cyber Defence Analytics—a specialist research and analytics team supporting the bank's broader Cyber Defence Operations. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end data lifecycle management and automation supporting cyber defence. We drive research on security trends and threats, deliver actionable insights and reporting for our operational cyber security teams, and continuously improve detection, response and cybercrime capabilities by leveraging advanced analytics.

Our mission:

To deliver innovative analytics, reporting, and data-driven automation that improves our cyber defence posture, minimises risk, and empowers our people and customers to be safe and secure—now and into the future.

Do work that matters:

As a Cyber Defence Analytics researcher, you'll work closely with the Senior Manager, Cyber Defence Analytics, to drive innovation in threat analysis, metrics , dashboarding and reporting, and automation across the group's cyber defence capability.

In this role, you will:

  • Research and analyse incident data, threat intelligence, and operational metrics to identify trends, abnormalities, and insights in cyber defence operations.
  • Develop, deploy, and optimise AI/GenAI and analytic models to enhance threat detection, automate data analysis, and support incident response /cybercrime teams .
  • Own the data lifecycle for our defensive teams: design and manage processes for data collection, cleaning, enrichment, storage, dashboarding, reporting, and metrics.
  • Lead the design and implementation of automation or tooling to improve workflows and reporting across Cyber Defence teams.
  • Collaborate with incident response, detection, cybercrime to deliver effective business reporting and insights; assist with incident write-ups and proactive alerting of anomalies.
  • Act as a strategic partner for the Cyber Defence Operations function, advising on data management, new analytic initiatives, and analytics-driven process improvements.
  • Undertake any other tasks as assigned, in accordance with bank policies and regulatory requirements.

We support our people with flexibility and a hybrid work approach, alongside flexible arrangements around hours, part-time options, and job shares. Here, you'll thrive—facing challenges, leveraging new opportunities, and making a real impact.

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

  • 2-3+ years experience in Cyber Defence operations (such as incident response, cyber threat intel, detection engineering , cybercrime ) OR experience in Data Science/Analytics applied to security operation domains.
  • Knowledge of IT security principals, cyber defence processes, and software security architecture.
  • Experience in incident analysis, reporting, and documentation in cyber teams.
  • Proficiency with SIEM technologies and security data analysis.
  • Experience building automated data processing pipelines, analytics dashboards, and reporting for technical or security teams.
  • Experience utilising Generative AI tools (Co-Pilot etc), large language models, and other modern analytics approaches in engineering or research practices.

Your qualifications:

  • Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Data Science, IT, or related discipline, or nearing completion.
  • Relevant industry certifications such as SANS/GIAC or Relevant Security Risk Management certifications are advantageous.
  • Participation and membership of relevant industry associations.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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