Specialist – SOC Analyst

Yennora/Norwest Location

About Us

Woolworths IT is currently in an exciting period of transformation and growth. Among Australia’s earliest adopters of the Google platform and agile methodologies, we are now investing in future-focused IT solutions for our stores and customers – and we need the best and brightest in technology to help us pave the way.

The Cyber Security Operations team is responsible for operating documented and implemented security controls, running of critical security tools, monitoring and responding to security related incidents and threats across the Woolworths Group. We now have three key opportunities to become part of our highly specialised and desirable Security Operations team as a SOC Analyst.

You’ll work within a small team in activity based and flexible work environment where your leadership and management will see you as critical success to the overall operation.

You’ll take advantage of obtaining valuable experience within a large corporate retail environment, with the added benefit of great learning and development opportunities.  Our dedicated team ensures all systems are working at optimal security levels and support the development of new technologies and methodologies.
About the Role

This role offers an exciting opportunity for particularly experienced SOC Analysts to work at a scale not commonly found in Australasia.  The SOC Analyst role is part of our Security Threat & Incident Management team. The role focuses on Cyber Security Threat & Incident Response operational capabilities through monitoring, consuming and responding to the output of security tools and IOCs for the detection & response of security events and threats.

In this role you will monitor and identify threats to the organisation from open source and other threat intelligence sources and provide effective communication to relevant stakeholders during the course of an incident. You will identify and be instrumental in the continual innovation to increase visibility as it relates to threats and reduce incident identification time.  You will need to translate and convey complex scenarios and solutions to a wider non-IT business through excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.  You will use you highly regarded skills to share and leverage knowledge and learnings to strengthen our service offering whilst enhancing your career prospects.

You will be a valued and an integral member of the team who is always learning and driving efficiencies through process improvement and enhancements and automation in support of maximizing effectiveness.

Security Operations is located across 2 sites with Yennora as our primary site with occasional need to travel to Norwest or other satellite sites. Rostered on-call support and some weekends required.

About You

We are so much more than great supermarkets – we are a team of great people, connected through our shared values.

Most importantly as a Specialist – SOC Analyst you will ideally demonstrate:

• Excellent communication, analytical & interpersonal skills
• Broad knowledge and confidence of a number of Cyber Security applications and tools
• Experience in managing significant security incidents
• A working knowledge of the kill chain methodology
• Experience identifying and hunting for related tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and IOCs across all internal/external repositories
• Experience identifying potential trends in events, alerts and incidents
• Experience in the various stages of Incident Response
• Meeting SLA’s regarding threats, incidents and assigned problems and requests
• Strong understanding of information security, networking and protocols
• The ability to work in both a team environment and independently
• ITIL v3, or capability to attain.

Above all, we are seeking innovators and thought leaders who will help us bring a little good to everyone, every day.

What’s On Offer?

• An attractive remuneration package -including competitive base salary, super and annual bonus
• Tech options – Woolworths are the largest employer of Google Apps in Australia, are early adopters of Agile and have BYOD options too
• Flexible working arrangements – We have an objective-based attitude to our work
• Training and Education – We pride ourselves in helping you realise your potential and give you the opportunity to be innovative
• Career Growth and Opportunity  – As our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people. The opportunity to work with multiple brands and sizeable projects.