Cyber Detection Engineer

Melbourne | Contract Opportunity | Enterprise Cyber Security Transformation

Ready to help shape the future of enterprise cyber defence?

We’re partnering with a leading enterprise organisation undertaking a significant cyber security transformation and are looking for an experienced Detection Engineer to play a critical role in delivering a modern Unified SIEM capability.

This is a hands-on technical position where you’ll design, build and optimise detection use cases that strengthen cyber resilience, improve SOC capability and enhance threat detection across cloud and on-premise environments.

Working alongside Threat Engineering, Security Engineering and SOC teams, you’ll help build a scalable, intelligence-driven detection capability that enables faster identification and response to evolving cyber threats.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality detection use cases aligned to threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK and business risk priorities.
• Build, tune and optimise SIEM analytics, alerting logic and correlation rules.
• Improve detection quality by reducing false positives and increasing detection fidelity.
• Apply Detection-as-Code principles using version control and structured deployment processes.
• Support the delivery of a large-scale Unified SIEM transformation, including migration and consolidation activities.
• Onboard, normalise and optimise log sources across cloud, endpoint, identity and network platforms.
• Translate threat intelligence, red/purple team findings and incident learnings into actionable detection content.
• Develop detections targeting identity attacks, endpoint compromise, malware, network threats and cloud-native attack techniques.
• Partner with SOC teams to validate detections, tune alerts and develop operational playbooks.
• Assess logging requirements, identify telemetry gaps and improve overall detection coverage.

What You’ll Bring

You’ll be an experienced Detection Engineer, SIEM Engineer or SOC Detection Specialist with a passion for improving cyber detection capabilities.

You’ll ideally have:

• 5+ years’ experience in Detection Engineering, SIEM Engineering or advanced SOC Analytics.
• Experience delivering SIEM transformation, migration or uplift programmes.
• Strong experience with enterprise SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic or IBM QRadar.
• Strong query development skills using KQL, SPL and/or SQL.
• Excellent understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and modern threat detection methodologies.
• Experience analysing and correlating logs across:
  • Identity and Active Directory
  • Endpoint security platforms
  • Network infrastructure
  • Azure, AWS and Microsoft 365
• Experience detecting:
  • Identity compromise
  • Lateral movement
  • Malware and endpoint attacks
  • Network-based threats
  • Cloud attacks and privilege escalation
• Strong analytical and investigation skills with the ability to identify patterns across multiple data sources.

Why Apply?

• Join a major enterprise cyber transformation programme.
• Work with modern SIEM technologies and advanced detection engineering practices.
• Influence how cyber threats are detected across a large and complex environment.
• Collaborate with highly skilled SOC, Threat Intelligence and Security Engineering teams.
• Opportunity to drive Detection-as-Code, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Competitive contract rates with a long-term programme of work.

If you’re passionate about building high-quality detections, improving SOC capability and helping organisations stay ahead of emerging threats, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or get in touch for a confidential discussion about this opportunity.

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