Cyber Security Architect
Role Overview
The Cyber Security Architect will define and evolve the technology, platforms, use cases, and processes supporting the Security Operations Centre.
The role provides technical vision and leadership to detect, respond to, and remediate cyber threats across a diverse customer base.
The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership across architecture, detection engineering, threat management, automation, and service innovation.
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About Macquarie Cloud Services
Macquarie Cloud Services is an Australian-owned provider of cloud services for business and government.
The company operates a managed services cloud business with a customer-focused service model.
The Opportunity
The Cyber Security Architect will define and evolve the technology, platforms, use cases, and processes supporting the Security Operations Centre.
The role provides technical vision and leadership to detect, respond to, and remediate cyber threats across a diverse customer base.
The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership across architecture, detection engineering, threat management, automation, and service innovation.
What You Will Be Doing
- Define the SOC strategy, technology roadmap, platforms, and operational processes.
- Design and evolve SIEM-as-a-Service, XDR, Global Secure Access, and Microsoft Security solutions.
- Lead Microsoft Security architecture, including Sentinel, Defender, Entra ID, and Zero Trust architectures.
- Improve security use cases, detections, dashboards, playbooks, automation, and response workflows.
- Advise customers on security strategy, cyber maturity, and security framework alignment.
- Guide SOC analysts, security engineers, and other technical stakeholders.
- Evaluate threats and vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Support customer workshops, solution design discussions, and strategic security conversations.
- Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Engineering teams on managed security services.
- Mentor team members and promote technical learning and excellence.
Required Skills and Experience
- Significant experience in cyber security architecture, security engineering, or senior technical security leadership.
- Strong enterprise, MSP, consulting, or vendor architecture and solution design experience.
- Deep Microsoft Security stack expertise, including Sentinel, Defender, Entra ID, Global Secure Access, and Zero Trust.
- Hands-on experience with Sentinel detections, analytics rules, workbooks, automation, and SOC processes.
- Strong SOC design, detection engineering, threat management, and security operations knowledge.
- Enterprise SIEM, security use case, response playbook, automation, and operational framework experience.
- Knowledge of cyber threats, adversary tactics, networking across Layers 3-7, and relevant security frameworks.
- Experience with KQL, Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting, automation, and analytics technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain an NV1 Security Clearance.
Why Us
- The company highlights workplace awards, learning and development opportunities, defined career pathways, and internal mobility.
- The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative managed security practice and customer protection.
About macquarietechnologygroup
Public Australian technology group providing cloud, data-centre, cybersecurity and telecommunications services to businesses and government.
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