Senior Information Security Consultant - Threat Hunting Job Description
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:
1. Proactively search for and analyse potential threats, vulnerabilities, and indicators ofpromise that may not be detected by traditional security solutions.
2. Utilize threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and security analytics to hunt for malicious activity across the network and digital assets.
3. Develop and refine threat hunting hypotheses based on current threat landscape, recent incidents, and emerging trends.
4. Identification of anomalous activity through research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of internal data sources.
5. Leverage previous threat hunting and intelligence experience to enhance detection and response capabilities.
6. Participation in Purple Team activities with a view to uplift security controls where necessary.
7. Lead and coordinate cyber incident response efforts, ensuring rapid identification, containment, eradication, and recovery from security incidents.
8. Actively participate in process improvement initiatives.
What's in it for me?
You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to be one of the world's great servicepanies. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.
Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements.
What do I need?
The successful candidate will have:
9. 5+ years in a 'hands on' SOC / Threat Hunting role.
10. Expertise in forensic analysis tools and techniques, with the ability to analyse a wide range of digital devices and operating systems.
11. Solid understanding of threat intelligence to inform threat hunting strategies.
12. Proficient in handling and interpreting large datasets to extract actionable insights.
13. Highly developed written and verbalmunication, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
14. Ability to understand business context, identify issues, and analyse and correlate information.
15. Good understanding of concepts such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
What is it like to work there?
As well aspetitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer ormunity work.
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well aspetitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth, and insurance benefits. #LI-Hybrid.
How do I apply?
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At Westpac we aremitted to providing a supportive culture and creating diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, andmunity. 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 .
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call 1800 655 592 Option or email Job ID 300001631643048