Information Security Consultant (Cyber Detection Engineering)
Westpac · Sydney, NSW, Australia ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Security
Westpac · Sydney, NSW, Australia ·
An Information Security Consultant at Westpac designs, builds, and tunes detection content across SIEM, EDR/XDR and related platforms (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Defender XDR), using threat intelligence and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, plus security automation, playbooks and integrations to strengthen cyber threat detection and response, while providing technical leadership and mentoring junior team
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What’s the role?
As an Information Security Consultant, you will help strengthen Westpac’s cyber threat detection and response capabilities by designing, building and maintaining detection content across SIEM, EDR/XDR and related security platforms. You will develop and tune detection rules, behavioural analytics and anomaly-based monitoring, using threat intelligence and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to improve visibility of emerging cyber threats and attack techniques.
Additionally, you'll design and implement security automation solutions, response workflows, integrations and playbooks that streamline investigation, containment and remediation activities. Working closely with Security Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Red Teams, you'll leverage automation, orchestration and AI tools to continuously improve detection coverage, operational efficiency and Westpac's overall cyber resilience to evolving threats and attacks
You will provide technical leadership, maintain documentation, share knowledge and mentor junior team members while ensuring security solutions are reliable, scalable and aligned with established engineering, development and governance practices.
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Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
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