Job Description
The Security Platform Engineer is responsible for operating, maintaining, and enhancing the organisation's security telemetry and analytics platforms with a solid focus on Google SecOps (SIEM/SOAR) and BindPlane. This role ensures reliable telemetry ingestion, platform stability, and seamless data delivery to support detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, and broader security operations.
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The ideal candidate brings deep technical hands-on experience with security platforms, data ingestion pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation tooling. They will collaborate closely with the SOC, incident response, cloud, and security engineering teams to ensure high-quality, scalable, and resilient security data pipelines and platforms.
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Key Responsibilities
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Google SecOps SIEM & SOAR Operations
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Configure, administer, and maintain Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR environments including tenancy setup, access controls, roles, and permissions.
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Operate and ensure ongoing health, performance, availability, and capacity of SIEM and SOAR platforms.
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Implement platform configuration changes, upgrades, and feature enhancements.
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Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to platform stability, integrations, and data ingestion.
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Support detection enablement, platform access requests, and incident-related data queries.
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Telemetry Ingestion & BindPlane Engineering
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Configure, manage, and maintain BindPlane collectors, agents, and data ingestion pipelines.
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Oversee log and telemetry ingestion from cloud services, infrastructure, applications, and security tools.
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Design and maintain parsing,



normalisation, enrichment, routing, and delivery pipelines.
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Route telemetry to Google SecOps SIEM, BigQuery, and other downstream platforms.
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Monitor BindPlane throughput, latency, error rates, data loss, and pipeline health.
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Troubleshoot ingestion failures, parsing errors, schema mismatches, and performance bottlenecks.
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Data Architecture, Quality & Reliability
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Design and implement scalable, resilient, and cost-optimised telemetry ingestion architectures.
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Validate data quality, schema consistency, field mapping, and delivery guarantees to support detection and analytics use cases.
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Maintain architecture diagrams, pipeline documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge base content.
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Automation & CI/CD
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Deploy platform and pipeline updates via CI/CD pipelines.
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Read and modify Python and Terraform code used within CI/CD workflows for minor fixes or enhancements.
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Integrate platform management tasks into automated deployment and validation processes.
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Incident & Operational Support
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Provide platform-level support during security incidents and investigations, ensuring data availability, integrity, and timely access.
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Assist SOC and incident response teams with telemetry validation,



platform troubleshooting, and detection enablement.
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Collaborate with cloud engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams to improve reliability and operational maturity.
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Required Skills & Experience
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Hands-on experience with Google SecOps SIEM/SOAR platforms.
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Expertise in BindPlane or similar telemetry ingestion technologies.
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Strong understanding of log formats, schemas, parsing, enrichment, and data routing.
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Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure).
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Experience troubleshooting data ingestion pipelines and performance issues.
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Ability to read and modify basic Python and Terraform code.
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
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Robust incident support and cross-team collaboration skills.
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Preferred Qualifications
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Experience with BigQuery or other cloud-based analytics platforms.
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Understanding of detection engineering concepts and operational security telemetry requirements.
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Background in SOC operations, cloud engineering, or security engineering.
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Certifications such as Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Google SecOps, or equivalent (nice to have).
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Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.

📌 Security Platform Engineer (Google Secops & Bindplane) (Port Macquarie)
🏢 Paxus
📍 Port Macquarie