Join Macquarie's Cyber Threat Incident Response team as a Cyber Threat Detection Engineer. This team is responsible for detecting, identifying, triaging, and mitigating threats and risks in our global cyber environment. You will be part of a highly skilled, distributed team protecting our global infrastructure.
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As a Cyber Threat Detection Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and evolving our threat and intel-informed defensive capabilities. You will be responsible for designing, building, and implementing effective detection mechanisms and content to identify advanced cyber threats across our large and complex enterprise environment. You will blend traditional security analysis with software development practices to automate and scale our threat detection lifecycle.
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- 3-5 years of cybersecurity experience in detection engineering, security operations, or incident response, with a proven ability to triage, investigate, and respond to cyber threats
- Strong threat detection and hunting expertise, including deep knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), the MITRE ATT&CK framework, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and how they manifest across diverse log sources and security artifacts
- Extensive hands-on experience with SIEM and security analytics platforms such as Splunk ES, Google SecOps, and Sumo Logic, building and tuning detection logic and conducting threat hunting within medium-to-large enterprise environments
- Proficient in Detection-as-Code practices, leveraging software development skills, Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and platforms such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and CloudBees to develop, manage, and deploy scalable detections
- Strong understanding of enterprise security technologies and modern tooling, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), firewalls, EDR, proxies, and emerging AI-powered coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), paired with an analytical mindset focused on innovation, problem-solving, and continuous improvement of detection fidelity.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.
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At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
- 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Recognition and service awards
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We're a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.
