Experis Australia is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Principal Cyber Security Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity supporting a high-performing cyber security team. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional with deep expertise in Splunk technologies and a passion for proactive threat detection and response.

About the Role
As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst, you will assist with log operationalisation and use case creation for newly onboarded systems and log sources. You'll monitor and enhance cyber security systems, develop and maintain playbooks, analyse security events to identify anomalous activity, and recommend security enhancements. The role also includes incident response, threat hunting, and collaboration with threat intelligence teams.

Required Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate will have experience using Splunk SOAR to develop playbooks and a strong understanding of Splunk Risk Based Alerting (RBA). Technical tertiary qualifications and certifications from Microsoft or Splunk are highly desirable, along with industry certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, or GCIA.

Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will have a NV1 Clearance and a minimum of three years' experience as a Cyber Security Analyst, with a proven ability to design, implement, and test use cases to detect malicious activity. You'll have hands-on experience in incident response, strong collaboration and knowledge-sharing skills, well-developed writing abilities for maintaining technical documentation, and experience managing threat intelligence feeds.

Eamon Ridgway
Consultant

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