Cyber Threat Incident Response Specialist
Summary
Leads cyber threat incident response for a global fintech firm, coordinating investigations, remediations, and cross-team communication during security breaches.
Salary: $150k - $180k plus bonus
The OpportunityJoin a global financial services organisation's Cyber Incident Response team in Sydney as a Cyber Incident Responder. You'll act as the central coordination point for cyber incidents, ensuring aligned execution, clear communication, and consistent delivery of investigative outcomes across teams. This is a hands on role.
What You'll Do
- Serve as Incident Response Lead — driving identification, prioritisation, and delegation of investigative and remediation tasks
- Coordinate across Cyber Threat Incident Response and partner teams to keep everyone aligned
- Facilitate communication and technical handovers throughout an incident's lifecycle
- Maintain accurate case tracking and deliver timely status updates
- Prepare and deliver executive-level summaries as required
- Drive post-incident remediation and follow-up through to completion
- Proven experience leading cyber security incident response activities, including generating, prioritising and delegating investigative actions, and managing technical handovers across global teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships under pressure
- Full-lifecycle incident management experience
- Excellent communication skills — comfortable briefing both technical teams and executive leadership
- Solid understanding of threat actor TTPs and an adversarial mindset
- 5+ years in security or technology roles within large organisations, with experience in enterprise-scale environments and large-scale log analysis platforms (e.g. Splunk)