Senior Information Security Consultant - Threat Hunting

at  Westpac Group

HOW WILL I HELP?

Westpac’s Detection and Response team sits within our Information Security Group and is responsible for monitoring and detecting cyber threats. We analyse and respond to attacks from adversaries targeting the Westpac Group or its customers.
We are looking for an Information Security Senior Consultant to join the Security Operations Centre with a focus on threat hunting. The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying and mitigating sophisticated cyber threats, ensuring the security and integrity of Westpac’s information systems. An escalation point for the SOC, the Information Security Senior Consultant mentors junior staff, sharing knowledge and experience, and ensuring threats are adequately handled.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Proactively search for and analyse potential threats, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise that may not be detected by traditional security solutions.
• Utilize threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and security analytics to hunt for malicious activity across the network and digital assets.
• Develop and refine threat hunting hypotheses based on current threat landscape, recent incidents, and emerging trends.
• Identification of anomalous activity through research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of internal data sources.
• Leverage previous threat hunting and intelligence experience to enhance detection and response capabilities.
• Participation in Purple Team activities with a view to uplift security controls where necessary.
• Lead and coordinate cyber incident response efforts, ensuring rapid identification, containment, eradication, and recovery from security incidents.
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives.

HOW DO I APPLY?

At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community. This role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au .

• Proactively search for and analyse potential threats, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise that may not be detected by traditional security solutions.
• Utilize threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and security analytics to hunt for malicious activity across the network and digital assets.
• Develop and refine threat hunting hypotheses based on current threat landscape, recent incidents, and emerging trends.
• Identification of anomalous activity through research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of internal data sources.
• Leverage previous threat hunting and intelligence experience to enhance detection and response capabilities.
• Participation in Purple Team activities with a view to uplift security controls where necessary.
• Lead and coordinate cyber incident response efforts, ensuring rapid identification, containment, eradication, and recovery from security incidents.
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives