Job Description

What’s the Role:

This role focuses on designing, building, and improving detection capabilities for emerging AI-driven security threats. As a Security Senior Consultant (AI Detection), you will lead detection engineering efforts across AI-enabled attacks, threats targeting AI systems, and the misuse of unauthorised AI tools.

You will act as a technical specialist and escalation point within the team, developing high-quality detection rules, automation, and anomaly detection capabilities. The role centres on scaling and evolving detection approaches to keep pace with rapidly changing AI threat landscapes, ensuring effective identification and response to sophisticated, AI-based risks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use detection tools effectively, with ongoing development of technical capability
• Design, implement, and maintain detections aligned to attacker behaviours (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK)
• Develop and tune detection logic using query languages such as KQL and SPL
• Build and maintain correlation rules, analytics, alerts, and behavioural detections
• Improve detection quality by reducing false positives and increasing overall coverage
• Collaborate across cyber teams and contribute to knowledge sharing and capability uplift

What do I need?

• Experience in cyber security, ideally within detection engineering or SOC environments
• Strong hands-on experience implementing and tuning SIEM/EDR detections
• Proficiency with detection tools (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender)
• Experience writing and tuning detection logic using query languages (e.g. KQL, SPL)
• Understanding of attacker behaviours and frameworks (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain)
• Knowledge of AI/LLM-related threats and risks (e.g. prompt injection, model abuse, data exfiltration, shadow AI)

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
  

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