Company Description
About Us
Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
Job Description
- Become a part of our Qantas Group Cyber Defence Team
- Join an amazing team that values and prioritises cyber security
- Permanent role based at our Mascot Head Office.
At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit, mateship, and a can-do attitude. Together we’re strong and resilient, and we work hard to make sure we’re always at our best.
The Senior Manager, Cyber Defence - Detection Engineering is responsible for driving log onboarding and detection engineering activities. They will work with various teams to enhance threat detection through SIEM, EDR/XDR and other security controls.
What you will be doing
- Supporting end-to-end log onboarding activities in collaboration with business and technology teams, providing subject-matter expertise for log onboarding patterns, data normalisation/transformation activities and monitoring of log health and availability.
- Designing, building and maintaining dashboards for various use cases, including but not limited to log visibility, log health monitoring and compliance.
- Developing custom detections on SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms, leveraging various sources of intelligence, threat research and data analysis.
What you will bring
- 7+ years of cyber security experience within large/complex organisations, ideally in a detection engineering and/or Splunk engineering capacity.
- Demonstrated experience in managing detection infrastructure, onboarding logs, threat modelling, researching, developing and maintaining custom detections on various platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, TIP and SOAR platforms.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation engineering (Python/Bash).
- Solid understanding of cyber threat landscape, threat actor techniques, detection engineering and log management domains.
- Ability to work independently to drive security outcomes, in collaboration with technology and business teams.
- Strong listening, influencing, intrapersonal communication, stakeholder management, project management and change management skills.
- Relevant industry certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, CISSP, CISM, GCIA and/or GCDA are beneficial.
Why Qantas?
You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on-the-job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.
- We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
- We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.
Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.
Please note: applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia / New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship.
Be part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today!
Applications will close on Tuesday the 17th of June
