Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Fixed Term. Hybrid. New Zealand Market, Infrastructure Products, Cybersecurity. Full time. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

🏢 About Datacom

At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our CDOC operations, taking ownership of critical platforms, driving security improvements, and helping shape how we defend against today's most sophisticated threats. You'll work across a diverse range of tools and environments, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our clients' most critical systems, while continuously raising the bar across our security operations and leading by example. This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Configure and update hardware and software to maintain secure, reliable environments
• Establish and manage user accounts and access controls
• Oversee and conduct backup and recovery tasks
• Implement operational and technical security controls in line with organisational policies
• Monitor and analyse open-source and proprietary threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Conduct in-depth research on threat actors, their TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and their motives
• Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to contain and mitigate the impact of security breaches

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role – Experience in Cyber Operations preferred.
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to manage your own workload
• Advanced understanding of the tools, techniques, and procedures modern attackers use to compromise organisations
• A customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
• Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and operating system command-line tools
• Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
• Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
• Understanding of IT user security policies including account creation, password rules, and access control
• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and standards like STIX/TAXII
• Be a Australian Citizen with the ability to achieve additional government security clearances.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience working with leading security technologies and platforms is highly desirable, including SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity security, and secure access solutions from major enterprise security vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Splunk and similar technologies.
• Exposure to working on Intelligence platforms will be highly regarded

🎁 Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
• Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities
• Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training
• Recognition programmes that celebrate great work
• Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits
• Meaningful work that makes a real impact

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• Be a Australian Citizen with the ability to achieve additional government security clearances.