Our name isn’t the only thing that’s unique about Leidos Australia. We’re a complex systems integration company building world-class solutions across government and defence that ensure peace of mind for the entire nation. Supported by global backing from our US network, we’re trusted by our customers to deliver the most innovative answers to their most complex challenges. Seriously interesting work that benefits and safeguards every Australian. That’s where you come in.

Your New Role

This role sits in a small close knit team that works closely with our client. Our team has a diverse mix of skills and cross training is a strategy, so flexibility will be required. This is also a newly formed team and your input into the phase in activity and creation of process and procedures for the day to day operations and the establishment of the SOC will be critical.

Your role as a Cyber Incident Response Analyst will include:

• Investigating and responding to Incidents and Requests as raised by the SOC monitoring system using the defensive method
• Identifying potential security incidents and responding as per standard operating procedures
• Monitoring security events and activities, and raising incidents and/or requests in response to alerts
• Maintaining a good general knowledge of the global threat environment and proactively assess risk and response strategies to potential emerging threats

About you

Working for Leidos, you will be required to work as part of a team but have the maturity to work autonomously. Your strong communication, interpersonal and technical skills will be key to establishing yourself with the customer and team.

• We are seeking expressions of interest from candidates with the following skills:
• SIEM configuration/tuning
• A working knowledge of cyber incident response
• Experience with service desk tools (ie ITSM)
• Experience working in classified environment
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies
• Ability to convey security and cybersecurity related concepts to both technical and non-technical audience
• Experience with Splunk and ingestion of logs from a VMWare and AWS environment will be highly regarded 

Due to the nature of the role we require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a current NV1 security clearance.

ITIL Foundation (highly regarded)

Coupled with your education and practical experience, you will demonstrate a pro-active approach with the ability to understand the business, identify issues and develop relationships to achieve the company’s
objectives.  You will also have:

• Professional experience in network
  analsyis and threat detection.

• Substantial experience with the
  relevant technologies and domains is essential.

Substantial knowledge and application of a broad range of skills including software, systems and enterprise architecture, software and hardware engineering, interface protocols.

For more information, visit www.Leidos.com