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About the role





DroneShield is seeking a Detection and Response Engineer with relevant experience to join the Security team in Sydney, NSW.

The Security team is a nimble team responsible for protecting DroneShield's assets and users. Our adversaries are sophisticated and use state-of-the-art tooling. To protect DroneShield, we need to focus on the biggest risks, eliminate threats, focus on automation to scale our efforts and continually increase the cost for the attackers.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

Detection & Monitoring

- Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules across SIEM and security tooling
- Improve signal-to-noise ratio by reducing false positives and enhancing alert fidelity
- Leverage threat intelligence, vulnerability data, and attacker techniques to build new detections

Incident Response

- Investigate and respond to security incidents across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS environments
- Support incident handling from detection through containment, eradication, and recovery
- Participate in incident response rotations and follow established runbooks
- Assist in coordinating cross-team response efforts during incidents

Automation & Tooling

- Contribute to automation of detection and response workflows (e.g. scripts, playbooks)
- Work with security orchestration tools to improve response efficiency
- Support development and improvement of internal security tools

Continuous Improvement

- Conduct post-incident reviews (RCA) and contribute to lessons learned
- Identify gaps in detection and response capabilities and propose improvements




- Maintain and improve incident response documentation and runbooks

Collaboration & Communication

- Work closely with engineering, IT, and security teams on investigations and improvements
- Communicate findings and incident updates clearly to stakeholders
- Contribute to building a strong security culture across the organization

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

- 3-6 years of experience in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering
- Hands-on experience investigating security incidents in cloud or enterprise environments
- Familiarity with SIEM platforms and log analysis
- Basic scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, KQL, Go or Powershell)
- Understanding of common attack techniques, malware behaviour, and threat lifecycle
- Experience with Linux/macOS command line environments
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or similar)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have

- Experience with detection-as-code or infrastructure-as-code
- Exposure to malware analysis or digital forensics
- Experience with automation frameworks or SOAR platforms
- Understanding of threat modelling and attacker methodologies
- Familiarity with modern security tools (EDR, IDS, cloud security tools)
- Interest in leveraging AI/LLMs for security operations

What Success Looks Like

- Effectively triaging and responding to security alerts with minimal supervision
- Contributing meaningful improvements to detection coverage and response speed
- Building automation that reduces manual workload
- Demonstrating growth toward owning incident response and detection strategy

Why This Role

Hands-on exposure to real-world security incidentsOpportunity to grow into a senior D&R; or security engineering roleWork in a fast-paced, high-impact security environmentContribute to protecting critical systems and users

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📌 Detection and Response Engineer (AU) (New South Wales)
🏢 Droneshield
📍 New South Wales