About us:

We are NCS Australia! We have brought together Australia’s best tech talent, working as one to harness technology and advance our communities, to make the extraordinary happen.

We're proud of our rich history of partnering with our clients to develop end to end digital technology solutions to accelerate their transformation and innovation journey. For over 40+ years our diverse global teams have delivered large-scale, mission-critical, multi-platform projects to governments and enterprises. 

About the role: 

This role is part of our internal cyber security team, which works to detect and respond to security incidents and fight cybercrime. The team are highly experienced at conducting proactive threat hunting and creating efficient detection and response capabilities. 

As a Security Engineer within our team, you'll analyse network traffic and user behaviour to identify attacker activity, conduct penetration testing, build and maintain scalable log ingestion and analytics platforms and tooling, and perform root cause analysis, lessons learned, and incident reviews. You'll also be a team player implementing our security strategy and initiatives to secure our systems and data.

In this role, you'll be well-versed in the latest threats and best practices for mitigating risks and fighting cybercrime. You'll provide technical expertise on security technologies, evaluate emerging security products and technologies, and advise business projects. Additionally, you'll participate in team operational duties and use multiple data sources for threat-hunting activities and security investigations

About you; 

• Previous experience in a similar role as a Security Engineer in a complex enterprise environment
• An expert in penetration testing and log ingestion
• Hands-on experience with network, infrastructure, application, MS 365 and cloud security
• Strong background working with a wide range of security technologies such as Splunk, WAF, Crowdstrike, TrendMicro, Vulnerability Scanning
• Good communicator, capable of explaining technical concepts to various audiences with differing levels of technical understanding
• Strong SPL skills in performing incident triage and investigation and writing alerts and dashboards to achieve security outcome
• Programming skills (Ruby, PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, Wireshark, etc) and the ability to leverage those to solve complex problems or automate mundane tasks
• Certifications such as CISSP, GSEC, CEH or CISM desired
• Participation in all team operational responsibilities, such as rotational on-call incident response, security event triage and investigations 
• Relevant security certifications

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. To discuss adjustment requirements, please email [email protected].

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks