Senior SOC Analyst

Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date8 June 2025 11:59pm

Job TitleSenior SOC Analyst

Job Summary

As a Security Analysis-Senior Analyst, you play a critical role in ensuring that Telstra provides an industry leading secure ecosystem for employees and customers. You draw on your deep expertise and experience in cyber security and technology use leading-edge practices to identify, anticipate, respond to and resolve security threats. Working in a specialised team you are a recognised subject matter expert, collaborative partner and trusted advisor by our employees, partners and customers. The work you do underpins Telstra’s competitive advantage and ability to provide a superior customer experience.Job Description

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

What We Offer

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

Global Networks & Technology - Security & Operations is responsible for Telstra's security and operations, protecting Telstra's assets and infrastructure.

About You

You are a seasoned professional with extensive experience in cyber security and technology. Your deep expertise allows you to identify, anticipate, and resolve security threats effectively. You are recognized as a subject matter expert and a trusted advisor by your colleagues, partners, and customers. Your collaborative nature and strategic thinking enable you to work seamlessly within a specialized security team. You are passionate about continuous learning and are always up-to-date with the latest technologies, tools, systems, and processes. Your ability to coach and mentor less experienced team members is a testament to your leadership skills. You are comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and able to influence decision makers in matters of risk in security and business outcomes.

Please note all candidates must be Australian Citizens to be considered. This role will require you to hold and maintain an NV1 AGSVA security clearance.

This position operates in a 24x7 Incident Management environment.

This position is based out of Telstra’s Security Operations Centre team (SOC), and requires candidates to be located in Melbourne, Canberra or Sydney.

What You'll Do

As a Security Analysis-Senior Analyst, you will be an integral part of a specialist security team, leveraging your deep expertise and experience in multiple technologies and areas of the security domain. Your responsibilities will include:

• Incident Response: Utilize your extensive expertise in security incident response to handle complex security incidents. Gather information, document actions and outcomes for forensic purposes, and drive continuous improvement in threat defenses and incident responses.

• Threat Mapping and Analysis: Apply an intelligence-driven approach to map threats against security controls, identify gaps, and propose improvement opportunities. Conduct research to identify vulnerability exploitations and potential attacks, understand threat actors, and how security system vulnerabilities can be exploited.

• Threat Intelligence: Create and deliver timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence on established and emerging threats. Use innovative communication techniques to ensure comprehension of these threats.

• Threat Hunting: Conduct end-to-end specialized detections targeting evolving adversary capabilities through proactive, intelligence-driven threat hunting activities.

• Collaboration and Influence: Work closely with the business to align with the Telstra cyber security framework and implement security standards. Assess vendor solutions to meet business requirements and manage vendor performance to ensure technical functionality, time, and cost outcomes are met.

• Security Assurance: Conduct security assurance of operational security controls across technologies, processes, and projects. Contribute to tactical and strategic initiatives, complex problem management, post-incident reviews, and business continuity planning to ensure Telstra’s security standards evolve to industry-leading best practices.

• Risk Management: Apply the Telstra Cyber Risk Management process and participate in the maintenance and update of policies, standards, and tools to reflect evolving threats and global best practices.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of Telstra security standards through assessments across selected cyber security control domains and take actionable steps to address gaps and issues.

• SME Advice: Provide specialist advice to Telstra Business Functions for ISO/IEC 27001 certifications and activities governing formal Information Security Management System (ISMS) programs. Contribute to the creation of reports required by the security function.

• Commercial Bids and Integration: Contribute to commercial bids and the on-boarding and integration of new security capabilities and customers to ensure the quality of service provided by the Security Operations Centre (SOC) is maintained.

• Capability Maintenance: Maintain a high level of capability in cyber security and technology, including new and emerging technologies, tools, systems, and processes. Model continuous learning and actively coach and mentor less experienced team members.