Senior Manager, Cyber Detection Automation and Tooling

How will I help?

The Information Security Senior Manager within the Cyber Detection, Automation and Tooling function plays a pivotal dual role in technical leadership and people leadership. This role ensures operational excellence, drives capability uplift, and delivers strategic security value across the organisation. It encompasses oversight of detection and automation streams, aligning cyber operations with business objectives, and integrating tools, people, and processes into a cohesive, secure, and high-performing environment.

Your key responsibilities include:

Detection Stream:

• Maintain expert-level proficiency with detection tools such as SIEM, EDR, and log management platforms.
• Lead the identification, assessment, and implementation of new detection technologies and platform enhancements.
• Continuously evolve detection capabilities through innovation, automation, and best practice methodologies.
• Expand knowledge into adjacent domains, including Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, DevOps, and cloud security practices.
• Actively mentor and coach team members, supporting career growth through regular feedback and development plans.
• Manage end-to-end detection operations, ensuring service quality, performance metrics, and compliance with SLAs.

Automation Stream:

• Achieve and maintain advanced proficiency in automation platforms (e.g., SOAR), scripts, APIs, and orchestration workflows.
• Lead the architecture, integration, and deployment of automation solutions that increase efficiency and reduce response time.
• Curate and manage the automation knowledge repository to foster a scalable and repeatable engineering culture.
• Strengthen engineering breadth in adjacent domains such as development (frontend/backend), infrastructure, networking, and configuration management.
• Inspire junior staff through structured mentoring, encouraging experimentation and measured risk-taking in solution design.
• Lead strategic programs focused on scalable security automation—examples include automated phishing triage, alert correlation, and response orchestration.

Leadership Excellence:

• Apply strategic foresight to align CDAT initiatives with business risk tolerance and organisational goals.
• Foster a high-trust, psychologically safe team environment that supports innovation and growth.
• Provide confident, high-quality guidance as the primary escalation point for technical and operational issues.
• Influence broadly across the enterprise—collaborating with governance, architecture, engineering, and compliance to ensure aligned security programs.

What’s in it for me?

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with 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. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

What do I need?

• Proficiency with core tooling: SIEM and EDR platforms (Detection), SOAR and scripting tools (Automation).
• Integration and solution architecture for secure and scalable detection and response ecosystems.
• Operational execution, including tuning, alert fidelity improvements, and metric-based tool performance evaluation.
• Strategic planning and delivery of capability uplift through maturity assessments, roadmaps, and frameworks.
• Informed understanding of the evolving threat landscape, aligning internal capabilities with external risks and adversary techniques.

What’s it like to work there?  

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.   

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between. 

We’ll empower you to shape your career path.  Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.  

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility – and champions inclusion.

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At Westpac, we’re all about creating a supportive culture and ensuring our workplaces, branches, products, and services are accessible and inclusive for everyone—our customers, employees, and the wider community. If you’re interested in discussing workplace flexibility, please feel free to mention it in your application.

We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, veterans and reservists, and Indigenous Australians to apply. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please email talentacquisition@westpac.com.au.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates, including those with disabilities or specific accessibility needs. For further information and additional contact details visit the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website https://www.westpac.com.au/about-westpac/inclusion-and-diversity/Inclusion-means-everyone-matters/disability-and-accessibility/