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Senior Manager, Cyber Defence and Engineering

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-03 → 2026-10-04

Core

Lead proactive cyber defence strategy, SOC operations, and threat response to protect critical market infrastructure and data assets.

Role type

Senior Manager, Cyber Defence and Engineering

Builds

Cyber resilience capabilities, automated threat detection/response workflows, and executive risk reporting.

Domain

Financial services / Cyber Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SOC operations, incident response, threat intelligence, offensive tradecraft (Red/Purple teaming), agentic AI integration, vulnerability management, executive communication, third-party security management, team leadership, regulatory compliance. (via careerplan.io/jobs/fb78be96-3953-44ab-9cc0-6b1bb4d43e09-senior-manager-cyber-defence-and-engineering-at-asx)

Preferred skills

Financial services domain experience, high-regulated environment experience.

Technologies

SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, attack surface management, security analytics platforms, detection-as-code.

Responsibilities

Lead proactive cyber defence strategy and minimize attacker dwell time; Provide leadership and oversight of SOC, threat detection, monitoring, and incident response; Direct specialised engineering functions leveraging agentic AI for automated detection and response; Elevate Threat Intelligence & Proactive Hunting with AI assistance; Drive continuous improvement of cyber defence capabilities and operating models; Oversee threat intelligence, threat hunting, and adversary detection activities; Lead response to cyber security incidents including containment and recovery; Ensure effective management of cyber defence tooling; Develop metrics and dashboards to measure cyber defence effectiveness; Partner with technology, risk, and business teams to reduce cyber risk exposure; Manage third-party security operations providers and strategic partnerships; Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing cyber defence team; Support regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements.

Seniority

Senior Manager, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities