Are you a seasoned cybersecurity professional looking for your next challenge? We're looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Cyber Defence Operations Centre (CDOC) team and play a key role in protecting our clients' most critical systems and infrastructure.
About the Role
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our CDOC operations, taking ownership of critical platforms, driving security improvements, and helping shape how we defend against today's most sophisticated threats. You'll work across a diverse range of tools and environments, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our clients' most critical systems, while continuously raising the bar across our security operations and leading by example.
What You'll Do
- Configure and update hardware and software to maintain secure, reliable environments
- Establish and manage user accounts and access controls
- Oversee and conduct backup and recovery tasks
- Implement operational and technical security controls in line with organisational policies
- Monitor and analyse open-source and proprietary threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities
- Conduct in-depth research on threat actors, their TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and their motives
- Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to contain and mitigate the impact of security breaches
What You'll Bring
- 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role – Experience in Cyber Operations preferred.
- Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to manage your own workload
- Advanced understanding of the tools, techniques, and procedures modern attackers use to compromise organisations
- A customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
- Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and operating system command-line tools
- Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
- Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
- Understanding of IT user security policies including account creation, password rules, and access control
- Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and standards like STIX/TAXII
- Experience working with leading security technologies and platforms is highly desirable, including SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity security, and secure access solutions from major enterprise security vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and similar technologies.
- Exposure to working on Intelligence platforms will be highly regarded
Culture and Benefits
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.
Requirements
Benefits
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role
- Experience in Cyber Operations
- Self-motivated and proactive with ability to manage own workload
- Advanced understanding of attacker tools, techniques, and procedures
- Customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
- Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and OS command-line tools
- Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
- Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
- Understanding of IT user security policies including account creation, password rules, and access control
- Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and standards like STIX/TAXII
- Experience with security technologies (SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity/security and secure access solutions) and vendors like Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler
- Exposure to working on Intelligence platforms
Datacom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Datacom and has not been reviewed or approved by Datacom.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare support includes complimentary health insurance packages in Australia and New Zealand alongside employee assistance programs. Wellbeing resources and on‑site meditation rooms are highlighted as part of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexible and remote work support, plus discounts on gyms, travel, and selected retailers, are prominently featured. The package emphasizes work–life balance and lifestyle support alongside core benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working is promoted across locations, with hybrid/remote arrangements positioned as standard practice where feasible. Benefits are framed as locally tailored by country and business unit, reflecting adaptability to context.
Datacom Insights
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.
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