- Award-winning Cybersecurity company
- Work with leading technologies and innovative peers
- Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
Ready to power the growth of one of New Zealand’s leading cybersecurity companies? At DEFEND, our mission is to create a cyber resilient world—and we’re looking for a Cybersecurity Operations Analyst to monitor, report, educate, and respond — protecting customers and securing their digital future.
Requirements
At DEFEND, we deliver world-class cyber resilience through engineered solutions and expert frontline defense. Our Cybersecurity Operations Analysts monitor, report, educate, and respond — protecting customers and securing their digital future.
In this role you’ll...
- Deliver security services by engaging, collaborating, and communicating with internal teams and stakeholders.
- Monitor security events and alerts to identify potential threats.
- Perform security alert triage, investigation, and analysis to assess severity and impact.
- Escalate incidents as necessary and conduct threat scope analysis to determine exposure.
- Perform impact analysis, document findings, and correlate threat intelligence for actionable insights.
- Prepare, review, and summarize customer reports to ensure accuracy and clarity.
- Respond to threats promptly, ensuring proper remediation processes are followed and recorded.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, ensuring rapid response and service delivery during critical incidents.
- Maintain accurate documentation of all security monitoring and incident response activities.
You’ll bring…
- Experience in Threat Detection
- Experience in Incident Response
- Experience in Threat Intelligence
- Reporting Skills
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Remediation Techniques
- Operational Readiness
- Excellent Documentation Skills
Benefits
About DEFEND:
Our dream at DEFEND is to improve everyday life by creating a cyber resilient world. Over the last few years, we've experienced phenomenal growth, working with a wide variety of customers and winning several industry awards, including Microsoft's Global Partner of the Year for 2025!
Why DEFEND?
We believe in investing in our employees’ growth and providing them with opportunities to advance their skills and careers. We offer a collaborative workplace culture, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where innovative thinking is encouraged.
By joining our innovative and creative team you will have the opportunity to contribute a variety of cybersecurity outcomes, from culture & awareness of cyber resilience, through to offensive & defensive security. No matter what your role, everyone at DEFEND contributes towards our dream of creating a cyber resilient world.
The benefits of working at DEFEND
In addition to working for a growing, dynamic NZ company, DEFEND offers the following benefits to all our DEFENDers
- 3.5% Kiwisaver on top of your base salary
- Southern Cross Health Insurance coverage
- Mobile and Broadband discounts for yourself and family
- Flexible, hybrid work environment
- An allowance to contribute to your home office setup
- Access to EAP services to support you across a range of wellbeing needs
Diversity & Inclusion:
At DEFEND, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to creating an environment that enables all our team to thrive. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to the team and being our next DEFENDer.
Ready to help shape the future of cybersecurity in New Zealand? Apply now or learn more at: https://defend.co.nz/careers/
Skills Required
- Experience in Threat Detection
- Experience in Incident Response
- Experience in Threat Intelligence
- Reporting Skills
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Remediation Techniques
- Operational Readiness
- Excellent Documentation Skills
What We Do
DEFEND are an independent agnostic cyber security partner. Security practice leading capability in: - Auditing and Compliance (NIST Framework) - Business C-Level/Board consultancy (Virtual CISO) - Cloud/Data Centre Connect - Service Provider independent compliance - Network (WAN/LAN/Wi-Fi/Telco) - Application performance & secure coding - End point and End User protection - Threat Education & Intelligence - BCP & DR DEFEND develop and provide managed cyber security outsourcing & consulting services across industry verticals. DEFEND support and assist customers to ensure they have access to the best people, process and technology to mitigate and reduce business risk from Cyber-attacks. DEFEND are a specialist threat protection, intelligence and detection company providing services across ANZ . DEFEND are heavily focus on end user centric threat management solutions. DEFEND provide guidance and leadership within your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP). We provide an aggregated security procurement management service to ensure our customer obtain the most effective access to services, solutions and pricing. Our objective is to attract only the most credible and capable people to join our team. We ensure our customers have a safe pair hands to call upon proactively and reactively in their time of need. If you want to join DEFEND or would allow us the privilege to become your partner then please contact us.
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