Cyber Security Specialist

2 weeks ago


Carseldine, Queensland, Australia Davidson Full time

About the Company

This is a leadership role based in Carseldine where you will run and mature the Security Operations Centre, in this Public Sector Client. You'll lead a small team of analysts, blend hands-on incident response with people management, and work closely with suppliers and ICT teams to uplift 24x7 monitoring, detection and reporting.

About the Role

In this leadership role, you'll run day-to-day SOC operations and uplift capability.

  • Oversee monitoring, detection and incident response to meet SLAs and KPIs
  • Manage and govern the SOC managed service provider partner
  • Establish and mature a 24x7x365 roster, roles and procedures
  • Lead investigations, threat hunting and digital forensics activities
  • Maintain and improve SOC standard operating procedures and reporting
  • Partner with ICT teams and QGCSU on incidents, log sources and change impacts

About You

You bring proven SOC leadership with strong technical depth.

  • Experience leading SOC teams and mentoring junior analysts
  • Hands-on with SIEM, SOAR, EDR and log source onboarding
  • Skilled in incident response, threat hunting and forensic analysis
  • Background managing MSPs and holding vendors to SLA and KPI outcomes
  • Able to design staffing models for 24x7 operations and on-call
  • Clear communicator with stakeholder reporting at executive level
  • Full working rights and experience working within public sector preferred.

The Benefits

  • Initial 12-month contract with scope for 2x 12 month extensions
  • Flexible hybrid working, with 2 days per week in office

How to Apply

Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Nina Magill on , quoting reference JN Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us


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