Posted: 29/08/2025
Closing Date: 19/09/2025
Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Canberra
Job Category: Engineering

BUILD A CAREER WITH REAL PURPOSE IN OUR SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE TEAM

Looking for meaningful work whilst gaining experience in Cybersecurity—and a team that’s as committed as you are? Join CSC’s Cyber Defence team and help shape outcomes that matter to over 750,000 Australians!
You’ll be engaged in great work with awesome people, as our Cyber Defence team is on a transformation journey where you will get to use AI and automation to drive solutions—and the team is known for its supportive, collaborative culture. This role would offer development opportunities with solid leadership support and a learning culture.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the Cyber Defence Engineer, you will play a critical role in operating and enhancing CSC’s cybersecurity services to protect financial and information assets. You will work within a team of dedicated specialists, focusing on Incident Response, SIEM Engineering, Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, and Security Awareness.
You will do business critical work such as enhancing prevention, detection, triage, and remediation of security events through automation. There is also a leadership development opportunity as this role will provide guidance, coaching, and support to junior cybersecurity staff while working in collaboration with the broader team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Incident Response: Lead and support cyber incident response, including investigation, remediation, post-incident root cause analysis and security incident reporting.
• Detection Engineering: Develop and fine-tune cyber detection use cases, analyse security data for anomalies, and continuously improving detection capabilities using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to enhance threat detection and response.
• Automation Development: Develop automated incident response workflows via SIEM platforms (Splunk or Sentinel) for efficient triaging and incident handling, reducing manual effort and improving response time.
• Assist with Security Threat Intelligence monitoring including Identification of security threats to CSC and its customers and collaborating with information sharing groups (government and industry).
• Support audit and regulatory compliance efforts, addressing security findings and recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to help shape and develop future DevSecOps capability.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, including processes, procedures, and technical reports.
• Work in close partnership with the Cyber Defence Lead and act as delegate when required.