Principal Consultant (Threat Detection)

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

From manufacturing and engineering to cybersecurity and space, we’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries – and working together to build a future we can all trust.

About the Team

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

From manufacturing and engineering to cybersecurity and space, we’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries – and working together to build a future we can all trust.

Thales delivers cybersecurity products and services that keep people and assets safe, giving organisations confidence in the security of their digital journeys. Our solutions are deployed in 148 countries, helping governments to maintain sovereignty, and organisations to preserve their strategic autonomy. Thales is a global leader in cybersecurity - no.1 in data security - with 6,000+ experts and developers. We bring trust and resilience to key industries including finance, health, retail and manufacturing, as well as vital sectors such as aerospace, critical infrastructure, defence and space.

About the Role

The Senior Security Consultant – Threat Detection is responsible for planning, scoping, delivering and supporting SIEM and related product projects for our customers.

You are a hands-on consultant who can converse with customers to understand their requirements, explain the solutions you will implement and complete the delivery of the solution. The projects you will contribute to will primarily be to deliver security threat detection outcomes using Splunk for Enterprise Security, Google SecOps Sentinel or other similar platforms.

You will be adaptable to new SOC technologies as they arise and as customer demand grows. During downtime from customer activities, you will be training to increase your knowledge, both of new products and techniques and increasing your capabilities. This can be formal partner supplied training or self-starting and self-guided.

You will be expected to either have or develop skills in cloud platforms, devsecops and automation, and threat modelling and research as these are in high demand from our customers and required for a complete implementation of any SIEM.

As a Senior Security Consultant, you are accountable for:

• Designing, developing, and tuning modern threat detection regimes suitable for customers of differing size and complexity, at different maturity levels in their cybersecurity journey.

• Working with other Thales consultants and with customers to ensure the chosen SIEM system is configured to support the implementation of threat detection rules and has the correct data sources and other capabilities to support the required outcomes.

• Proactively work with customers to achieve set project deadlines and budgets.

• Assisting more junior staff working on the same engagement.

• Working closely with partners and client executives to determine and architect the best solution to propose for a given customer.

• Assist with scoping, costing and estimation of professional services effort and licenses required to achieve the desired outcome for the customer.

• Ensuring your time is billed to customers correctly, and maintaining a high billable rate when the work is available to do so.

• Ensuring you are developing skills and capabilities to be ready for future assignments.

• Staying up to date with partner certifications where necessary.

About You

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

• Deep knowledge and experience in one or more of Splunk ES, Sentinel or Google SecOps

• Security use case planning and development

• Experience and knowledge of one or more public cloud platforms

• Automation platform and/or devsecops capabilities and experience

• Scripting or programming skills

• Data engineering skills or experience

• Containerisation platform (e.g. K8S) knowledge and experience

• Security certifications (e.g. CISSP)

• AGSVA security clearance

Our Benefits

• Flexible working options

• Paid Parental Leave and Veterans Leave

• Novated Lease options

• Family support through our partnership with Parents at Work

• Ongoing personal and professional development opportunities

• Sonder – Wellbeing & Support Partner

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO APPLY

After you have applied, you will receive an email acknowledging your application. We’ll then provide a personalised experience for suitable applicants as we progress the selection and assessment process. Prior to being offered employment, you will need to complete pre-employment police checks

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As a Defence security clearance is required for this role, applicants must be Australian citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an appropriate clearance. To learn more about clearances please visit http://www.defence.gov.au/AGSVA/

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