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Cyber Security SIEM Specialist

IBM

IBM

Canberra, Australia
Posted on Jul 1, 2025
Introduction

The Cyber Security SIEM Specialist is responsible for the day-to-day management, monitoring, and analysis of security information and event management (SIEM) tools within the organization. This role requires a highly skilled individual who can leverage SAP ETD and Microsoft Sentinel to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyber threats in real-time, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical data and systems.

Your role and responsibilities

  1. Monitor, analyse, and manage alerts generated by SAP ETD and Microsoft Sentinel, investigating potential security incidents.
  2. Develop and maintain effective security policies, procedures, and guidelines related to SIEM operations.
  3. Utilise SIEM dashboards, reports, and visualizations to communicate security status to stakeholders.
  4. Conduct regular security audits and assessments to ensure the SIEM solution is optimally configured and aligned with current threat landscapes.
  5. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance SIEM capabilities and response efficacy.
  6. Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats, attack patterns, and mitigation strategies.
  7. Ensure compliance with relevant industry regulations and standards

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Must have an active AGSVA Baseline Clearance, preferred to have AGSVA NV1 Clearance or be eligible to obtain one.
  • Must be an Australian Citizen
  • Mandatory to be on site 5 days a week.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in SIEM administration, ideally with both SAP ETD and Microsoft Sentinel.
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or similar certifications are strongly preferred.
  • Proven expertise in threat detection, incident response, and security event management.
  • Strong understanding of network security, cloud security, and cyber threat intelligence.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a dynamic team, often under pressure and tight deadlines.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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