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Security Engineer – Remote

NOC/SOC • Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia • Full-time
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Description

The Mission: The SOC team’s mission is to safeguard digital assets by proactively detecting, analysing, and responding to security threats, ensuring compliance and continuously strengthening the overall security posture across our client base. As a SOC Engineer, it is your mission to handle escalations from analysts, lead incident response teams, monitor threat feeds, assist with developing our security roadmap and formulate responses to evolving situations.

Responsibilities:

  • Security Monitoring & Detection: Monitor security alerts and events from SIEM, EDR, and cloud security platforms; analyse logs, telemetry, and threat indicators to identify suspicious behaviour or threats; and maintain situational awareness of client environments to assess potential impact. Assist with escalations of alerts and events from junior staff and provide guidance when requested.
  • Incident Tech Lead: Perform thorough investigations of issues escalated from staff; determine and execute response actions informed by situational data; and escalate high-risk or complex incidents to Leadership or Cyber Security Consultants with detailed documentation. Complete draft reports and conduct post incident reviews to inform future decisions where required
  • Threat Intelligence & Use Case Development: Correlate alerts with threat intelligence and known IOCs; lead threat hunting and assist with identifying detection gaps; and implement enhancements to detection logic, alert thresholds, and tuning rules.
  • Proactive Operations: Develop standards, monitor for adherence and update as required, analyse security configurations and policies for weaknesses; research emerging threats and vulnerabilities to improve security posture. Review security bulletins to provide analysis and recommendations to other staff or leadership (where required).
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve SOC processes, procedures, and documentation; recommend and implement automation solutions; evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies; contribute to knowledge base development and training initiatives.
  • Team & Client Enablement: Collaborate with team members to share knowledge and best practices; Seek and incorporate feedback from all team members; provide technical guidance, support and mentorship to junior staff; Lead developing and maintaining standard operating procedures (SOPs), knowledge base articles, and client-facing documentation.

Required Skills & Competencies:

  • Experience: 5+ years in a Cyber Security focused role, ideally multi-disciplined. Demonstrated ability to contribute to incident resolution and contribute to SOP/knowledge frameworks.
  • Education: Tertiary IT education (TAFE Certificate in IT or higher) or industry certification (CISSP,CISM,CISA etc) is suitable for this role. Advanced or specialist certifications viewed favourably. Equivalent hands-on experience in a technical environment may substitute.
  • Advanced Technical Expertise: Hands-on security focused experience with Onprem infrastructure, cloud platforms (Microsoft 365, Azure), networking, data protection technologies and endpoint management. Demonstrated ability to triage security events, participation in Cyber Security Incident Response and hunting for IOCs. Knowledge of security frameworks including Essential 8, NIST and CIS. Information security framework experience highly regarded (ISO27001, SOC2)
  • Automation & AI Proficiency: Experience in identifying opportunities for automation of manual tasks and implementing solutions. Familiarity with AI tools to reduce manual workload and improve efficiency.
  • Root Cause & Systems Thinking: Skilled in identifying systemic problems and their downstream impacts. Applies structured thinking to perform root cause analysis (RCA) and proactively mitigate future issues across a wide group of clients.
  • Client-Aware Problem Solving: Understands how technical decisions impact client outcomes. Balances urgency, user experience, and strategic goals when resolving high-impact issues.
  • Operational Maturity & Quality Focus: Upholds and role models high documentation, QA, and knowledge-sharing standards. Proactively identifies gaps in process, SOPs, or tooling and leads solutions.

Why Join Us?

  • Career Development: You’ll have a personalised training plan and regular growth conversations. Your development is driven by you—backed by us.
  • Hybrid & Flexible: Plan your own week with your clients in mind. Typically, 2–3 days onsite with the rest up to you.
  • Supportive Team: We work together, share knowledge, and care about the bigger picture—no egos, just good people doing great work.
  • Real Perks: Training budgets, additional leave, regular social events, and an approachable leadership team that listens and acts.
  • Smarter Tools, Less Admin: We invest in AI-driven technologies to make life easier—reducing admin, speeding up resolutions, and helping our team do more of what they love.

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Role Type

Within Australia • Contract • Full-time • Mid Level

Company Overview

At Strategic Group, we’re a family-run, people-first MSP that values teamwork, trust, and giving back. Our culture is built around being reliable, passionate, and supportive—both with clients and each other. We invest in our team’s growth through personalised training plans, flexible work, and a no-politics environment. We care deeply about community, actively supporting charities and causes close to our hearts. By using AI-driven tools and modern tech, we aim to deliver smarter service while making our people’s work lives easier.
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