Security Operations Engineer

A little about x15ventures

x15ventures is building the next generation of solutions for 15 million customers, by unlocking new value from CommBank’s assets through partnership with the tech and innovation community. Backed by CommBank, we operate within a dynamic start-up like environment, leveraging the best of both worlds. Our approach is flexible and agile enabling us to deliver disruptive ideas at pace.

Where do you fit?

We are looking for a Security Operations Engineer to support x15 and its portfolio of ventures, which includes financial technology brands such as TruYu, Kit, Credit Savvy, Home-In and Doshii. In this role you will work under the guidance of our security operations lead, to build out our security operations capability based on Sentinel to support heterogenous workloads across both Azure and AWS. This will involve aggregating data sources, building intelligent detections tuned to each business, and performing a full range of blue team duties that includes incident response and remediation. In this role you will report to the Lead SecOps Engineer. You will contribute to the cyber security program for x15 and all its ventures and be responsible for key security deliverables across our portfolio as we grow and innovate.

Why x15ventures?

• We offer flexible work (50% in office) options to support your well-being in the role

• The opportunity to grow and evolve an exciting purpose driven venture and have a positive impact on customers and the wider community

• We believe family comes first and pay generous equal parental leave - understanding there’s more to life than work

• We celebrate an authentic team culture and promote collaboration and innovation

• You can choose your own adventure, with amazing development and career progression programs to help you grow!

• We support hybrid working and have a beautiful bases at South Eveleigh - a brand new state-of-the-art precinct that is part of Sydney’s wider technology community, as well as Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide.

In this role you will

• Identify incidents/issues, alerting and monitoring of security systems.

• Analyse vulnerabilities, threats, and incidents and make recommendations.

• Contribute to developing effective SOC processes and procedures.

• Investigate incidents and risk findings and propose mitigation actions.

• Continuously improve the SOC processes and ways of monitoring incidents.

• Support threat response program and procedures.

• Execute targeted hunts for malicious activity, documenting and developing proactive detection signatures and automation to detect malicious activity and streamline response.

• Train colleagues on new systems, capabilities and methodologies.

• Ensure delivery of security services and guidance for teams in identifying control objectives and any potential control gaps.

We are interested to hear from people who have experience in

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field would be highly regarded

• 1-3 years of experience in a technical cyber security role

• Subject matter expertise in any defensive cyber security domain

• Ability to solve complex problems and communicate / document solutions

• Ability to work independently with minimum guidance

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate and influence a diverse range of stakeholders

Desired skills:

• Experience in using and monitoring detective controls (event management / SIEM solutions)

• Experience/Knowledge of Sentinel as a SIEM

• Experience/Knowledge of Azure and AWS cloud technologies

• System engineering or network engineering skills

• Proactive approach and passion for information security

This opportunity will see you work in a passionate and high performing team across a highly innovative new product. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of apply NOW!

The health and safety of our people, customers and communities is our number one priority. This means that we require all of our employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please speak to us if you have any questions about this based on your individual circumstances.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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