CyberCX - Security Analyst

CyberCX, part of Accenture, protects and defends our customers and communities by providing the most comprehensive range of cyber security professional services in the region.

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We’re looking for a Security Analyst to join our Managed Security Services team in Brisbane, supporting a portfolio of enterprise customer environments across security monitoring, incident investigation, detection improvement and threat hunting.

This is a hands-on security operations role suited to someone with practical SOC or security operations experience who wants to continue building their capability across a variety of customer environments.

You’ll work alongside experienced Senior Analysts and Technical Leads, gaining exposure to complex investigations, customer-specific security challenges and a broad range of technologies.

• →Monitor and investigate security alerts across enterprise customer environments
• →Analyse security events using SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk
• →Investigate suspicious activity across identity, cloud, endpoint and network telemetry
• →Support incident response activities including investigation, scoping, containment and escalation
• →Work with technologies including Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and Cortex XDR
• →Tune existing detections and help reduce false positives and alert noise
• →Assist with the development of new detections and customer-specific security use cases
• →Participate in threat hunting activities based on threat intelligence, customer concerns or identified indicators
• →Identify gaps in logging, detections and security visibility
• →Support vulnerability management activities, including reviewing and prioritising findings
• →Communicate security findings and recommendations clearly to customers and internal stakeholders
• →Contribute to automation, process improvement and broader SOC capability development
• →Work closely with Senior Analysts and Technical Leads on complex investigations and escalations
• →Participate in the team’s rotating on-call roster for after-hours escalations

• Practical experience working in a SOC, MSSP, MDR or security operations environment
• Hands-on experience investigating security alerts and incidents
• Experience with a SIEM such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk or a comparable platform
• Exposure to EDR/XDR platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike or Cortex XDR
• Understanding of common identity and account compromise scenarios
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure, Entra ID or broader cloud security environments
• An understanding of incident response and security investigation methodologies
• Experience analysing logs and correlating activity across multiple data sources
• Exposure to detection tuning, detection engineering or threat hunting
• A good understanding of common attacker behaviours and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• The ability to look beyond simply closing an alert and understand why it triggered, what happened, what may be affected and what action should be taken next
• The ability to connect technical findings to customer risk and communicate recommendations clearly
• Curiosity, sound judgement and a willingness to challenge assumptions and investigate beyond the obvious
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with vulnerability management platforms such as Tenable or Qualys would be advantageous but is not essential.

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We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

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