Defensive Services Lead Analyst

Our dynamic and highly regarded Defensive Services team is growing as we take on more high value clients, providing round the clock security operations centre monitoring and analysis.  In addition, our role supporting clients with sophisticated cyber security engineering services has also grown, meaning we are now seeking to engage a Lead Analyst who will also perform the role of deputy to the Principal, Defensive Services.

The Lead Analyst is a senior team leading role with Ionize, responsible for a broad range of leadership and management duties, as well as providing technical support to staff in the defensive services team. While the operation is 24×7, this role will operate in core daytime hours.

If you are an Australian citizen and keen to join our high performing team in Canberra as Lead Analyst, meet our requirements with a strong defensive services background, then we would love to hear from you:

1. A minimum of five years defensive services experience as an Analyst and/or in incident response
2. Demonstrated experience in;

• Providing team and technical leadership in a team environment
• Actively responding to alerts and events from detection through to coordinating stakeholders in incident recovery
• Participating in an on-call roster environment as a senior escalation point of contact for the SOC
• Preparing and maintaining incident response documentation such as playbooks and procedures
• Proactively running threat hunting and tabletop exercises to identify anomalous behaviors
• Developing tools for security incident alerting, management, communication, and response
• Prior experience in security engineering to automate tasks for incident response detection and containment
• leading operational teams.

3. The necessary skills, certifications, and qualifications
4. Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all relevant SOC tools and projects
5. Manage and optimise ongoing monitoring and detection tools, including Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
6. Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills for both technical and senior management stakeholders.

Please send a one-page introduction as well as an up-to-date resume to our careers@ionize.com.au email address and we will carefully consider your application.

If you would like to make contact and discuss the role prior to your one-page submission and resume, please just hit the Apply Now button, leave us a message, and we will contact you.