Cyber Security Operations Engineer

About Liberty

Helping people is at the core of who we are. As Australia’s top non-bank lender, we’ve spent decades providing free-thinking and innovative loans and have assisted over 500,000 individuals in achieving financial stability. Our range of flexible, tailored products and our dedication to creating outstanding customer experiences are at the heart of what we do.

We are a collaborative and vibrant community, driven by our core values. Our vision of leading the finance sector with innovative thinking is guided by FLAIR, our five key principles of being Fair, Learning, Accountable, Invested, and Resourceful. These values shape our perspective, interactions with customers, and relationships with one another.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about building resilient security infrastructure through smart engineering? Do you want to progress from analysis to designing and implementing security solutions?

We are looking for a Cyber Security Operations Engineer who is technically proficient, solutions-focused, and curious about automation and AI, someone who can implement controls while working collaboratively across teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced analyst ready to step up to an engineering role, someone who thrives on building technical solutions and exploring how automation can transform operations.

At Liberty, technology is central to our business, and we are accelerating our use of automation and AI to drive innovation. You will work with our managed service provider who handles initial monitoring and triage, while you focus on engineering infrastructure, responding to escalated incidents, conducting threat hunting, and driving continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Implementing and optimising controls across identity management, email security, endpoint protection, cloud security, and network defence.
• Responding to escalated incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Investigating and using automation and AI to streamline processes, improve detection, and enhance response efficiency.
• Conducting proactive threat hunting to identify undetected threats and vulnerabilities.
• Managing vulnerability assessments and testing, determining pragmatic solutions for mitigation.
• Integrating and optimising tooling to ensure effective detection, response, and prevention.
• Building effective relationships with technical teams, business stakeholders, and external providers.
• Maintaining and enhancing infrastructure to ensure defences perform as required.
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency through innovation.
• Staying current with emerging threats, attack methods, and technologies.

Enough about us, lets talk about you

• You bring solid experience and are ready to step up from analyst to engineer.
• You have hands-on skills with the ability to implement controls, integrate tools, and build solutions.
• You are solutions-focused and engineering-minded, preferring to build and optimise rather than monitor alerts.
• You are curious about automation and AI and interested in exploring how these can solve challenges at scale.
• You are comfortable with escalated incidents and complex investigations.
• You are collaborative and enjoy working with technical teams and managed providers.
• You possess hands-on experience with Microsoft security tools including Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Azure services.
• You have experience with tools such as ZScaler, Azure WAF, Azure DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches like Terraform.
• You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Security Certifications (SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, SC-400, SC-900), CISSP, or CISA would be valued but are not mandatory.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries would be valued but is not mandatory.

Why join Liberty Financial Group?

At Liberty, we take pride in fostering a workplace where everyone can bring their true authentic selves. Our free-thinking, diverse and inclusive culture is something we celebrate daily. We are deeply committed to gender equality, disability support, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, mental health awareness, and religious and cultural diversity. As we help people achieve financial stability, we also honor the contributions of Indigenous Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and other cultural minority communities.

Our dedication to diversity and inclusion extends throughout our workforce and community initiatives. We’re proud to be recognized by Work180 and certified as a B Corporation.

Being named Employer of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards in 2021 and 2023 and Employer of Choice Winner for 2023 at the Australian Business Awards, reflects our ongoing commitment to making Liberty the best place to work. We believe that beyond competitive financial rewards, it's the thoughtful, small touches that truly make a difference in supporting our team's needs and well-being.- we provide access to a large number of great benefits such as:

• Wellness perks including, gym subsidies, free counselling, flu vaccinations, health-checks, massages and private health
• We are social with monthly themed lunches and events, EOY and EOFY parties, and corporate casual dress
• Community groups such as our Internal Pride Network (LGBTQIA+), Women in Leadership, Green Stars (environmental enthusiasts!) and more
• An opportunity to give back to the community with our Lend-A-Hand initiatives
• Fantastic growth and career progression opportunities with access to online development courses
• There's more?! Yes we have coffee, daily fruit, lunch and constant snacks available anytime!

Liberty is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all people, regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.