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**Senior Threat Detection Engineer - 22822** Join Macquarie's Cyber Threat Incident Response team as a Senior Threat Detection Engineer. You'll be responsible for detecting, identifying, triaging, and mitigating threats in our global cyber environment. This role requires 3-5 years of experience in detection engineering, incident response, or a similar role. Technical skills include extensive experience with Splunk ES, Google SecOps, or Sumologic, along with strong proficiency in software development, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with AI coding assistants and common enterprise technologies is a plus. At Macquarie, you'll enjoy a rewarding career with a wide range of benefits and a commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment.
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Senior Threat Detection Engineer
Additional office locations
Sydney
Job ID
22822
Date
22-Jun-2026
Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior
Job category
Technology - Security
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Join Macquaries 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.
We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, youre empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.
What role will you play?
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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.
What you offer
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- 3-5 years of experience as a detection engineer, security operations analyst, or incident responder, with a proven track record of triaging and responding to cyber threats.
- Demonstrated knowledge of threat actor techniques, vulnerabilities, and exploits (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK framework), along with how those present themselves within various log sources and artifacts.
- Extensive experience investigating and hunting threats, as well as building robust detection logic using modern SIEM and log aggregation platforms such as Splunk ES, Google SecOps, and Sumologic in medium to large enterprise environments.
- Strong practical experience with software development skills, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with automation tools and version control (e.g., Git, Cloudbees, Bitbucket, Bitbucket pipelines) to treat detection-as-code.
- Deep understanding of common enterprise technologies and their logging capabilities, including Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Firewalls, EDR, and Proxies.
- Curious and analytical mindset with a strong ability to question the status quo, solve complex problems creatively, and continuously improve detection fidelity.
- Familiarity or hands-on experience utilising cutting-edge AI coding assistants and command-line LLM tools (such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot) to accelerate detection engineering, draft parsing scripts, translate legacy rules, or analySe complex security data is desirable.
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.
What we offer
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At Macquarie, youre empowered to shape a career thats rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year
- Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
- Up to 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks paid leave for non-primary caregivers
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Up to 12 months gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks paid leave
- Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
- Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
About Technology
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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. Were a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrows technology solutions.
Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.
Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.
