Recruiting now for a Jan/Feb 2026 Start
Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of technology to innovate and grow.
About the Role (your why)
Our Cyber Defence Operations Centre (CDOC) delivers a range of mature and robust Cybersecurity Managed Services to customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. Our CDOC Platforms and Solutions team is looking for an experienced Cybersecurity Engineer focused on delivering our Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR services.
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your Microsoft cybersecurity expertise with automation skills to help evolve our services in line with the ever-changing threat landscape. You’ll enjoy being able to work from home up to up to 5 days per fortnight, be based out of Brisbane or Sydney and working with the wider team AU and NZ.
What you’ll do
In this role you will be focused on:
- Delivering high quality cybersecurity services to our customers using the Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR stack.
- Acting as a technology lead in the delivery and enhancement of these services.
- Proactively evolving services to meet changes in threats, technologies, and market requirements.
- Identifying and continually improving CDOC internal systems, including our SOAR and Threat Intelligence platforms.
- Actively creating, managing, and improving automations, integrations, playbooks, and other tools and features to ensure efficient service delivery.
What you’ll bring
Required experience:
- Proven experience leveraging the Microsoft technology stack for security operations (Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR).
- Relevant cybersecurity engineering qualifications, such as the SC-200, AZ-500 and other Microsoft certifications.
- Intermediate or higher scripting capability.
- Ability to work within our SOAR and threat intelligence platforms
- Broader experience with adjacent cybersecurity or cloud services technologies.
- Application of cybersecurity concepts, preferably in a managed services or SOC environment.
- A strong drive for continual learning and growth.
Why join us here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect, and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.
Top Skills
What We Do
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems.
We bring together over half a century of know-how, the right technology and the knowledge and creativity of our people, to deliver sustainable solutions to our customers’ greatest challenges.
With our team of dedicated professionals, we work with leading partners to deliver the solutions that are right for our customers – that solve their issues and enhances their businesses.
We design, build and run IT systems and processes across operations, cybersecurity, cloud, digital platforms, payroll and enterprise applications. We deliver customer care services and operate mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class data centre facilities – Datacom delivers on the promise: practical imagination.
