Security Jobs in Australia
There are 1,825 open Security jobs in Australia on freehire right now. 652 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, cybersecurity and automation.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUD | year | A$135,073 | A$154,864 | A$177,500 | 35 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 25%
- cybersecurity 14%
- automation 12%
- ai 12%
- aws 11%
- azure 10%
- siem 9%
- cloud-security 8%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 283 · 16%
- Onsite 170 · 9%
- Remote 58 · 3%
Visa sponsorship offered in 27% of the 171 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 339
- Lead 111
- Principal 100
- C-level 84
- Junior 19
- Staff 13
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 275
- 501-1000 employees 93
- 51-200 employees 31
- 11-50 employees 13
- 201-500 employees 4
Technical Consultant – Cyber Security (SOC)
This role is a 12-month contract as a Technical Consultant within a co-sourced Security Operations Centre (SOC). The consultant will perform incident response, threat detection, phishing triage, and security monitoring for a major Australian telecommunications provider.
Senior Security Architect
The Senior Security Architect will provide technical guidance and mentorship for cloud migration, network segmentation, and security technology rollouts like CASB and SASE. This role involves designing security patterns and assessing risks for a global professional services firm using Azure.
Principal Security Specialist
Principal Security Specialist strengthening cyber resilience through risk assessments, control gap analyses, and vulnerability management across enterprise applications and ICT environments for a NSW government department.
Cyber Security Architect
Cyber Security Architect leading the technology strategy, platform design, and operational processes for Macquarie Cloud Services' Security Operations Centre, centered on the Microsoft Security stack (Sentinel, Defender XDR, Entra ID) and detection engineering at scale.
Security Compliance Specialist
Security Compliance Specialist at Adobe's Sydney office building and maintaining scalable security compliance processes across APAC, working with frameworks like IRAP, SOC 2, ISO 270xx, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Vice President, Security Detection & Response, Global Information Security
Security Detection & Response Analyst (SDR II) on the GIS Monitoring and Triage team at Bank of America in Sydney, operating the end-to-end detect→investigate→respond→improve lifecycle using SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and KQL/SPL/SQL across multiple security domains.