Cyber Security Analyst

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage candidates for Cyber Security Technical Analysts (SIEM) - EL1

Please check below all the job details

• Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
• Work Location: Only Canberra (Hybrid – 03 Days Office / 02 Days home each week)
• Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above.
• Tentative Start Date: 6th July 2026
• Working Hours: 8 hours a day/ 40 hours a week

Key duties and responsibilities

The Cyber Services Section requires the engagement of a cyber security technical analyst to design, implement and optimise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) capabilities to support the department’s cyber security posture.

Working within Cyber Security Operations, the role ensures that security events are effectively ingested and correlated for threat detection, incident response, and compliance with government security frameworks (e.g. PSPF, ISM, Essential Eight).

Key duties and responsibilities

• Design, development, and implementation of log solutions for SIEM (log ingest, log storage, log querying).
• Contribute to and develop comprehensive documentation around the technical solution and implementation of SIEM and logging systems.
• Identify capability gaps in alerting and detection within the Cyber space.
• Build alerting and detection capability across SIEM/SOAR toolsets.
• Identify gaps in security event logging.
• Maintain and improve existing alerting and detection capabilities.
• Liaise with third party vendors and relevant business areas to meet targeted capability goals.
• Investigate and implement improvements to uplift current security posture.
• Show demonstrated experience with Sentinel, Information Security Manual and the Essential Eight.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrated experience in toolsets including Azure and Sentinel.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively document findings and implement policies to meet organisational security requirements.
• Demonstrated ability in providing considered security advice to stakeholders, team members and Executive.
• Experience with ingesting logs, developing uses cases and tuning logs.
• Experience working within a Cyber team and taking direction.

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to ***email_hidden***

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get

$1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates