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About the role
We're looking for a Security Analyst to join our Managed Security Services team in Melbourne, supporting a portfolio of enterprise customer environments across security monitoring, incident investigation, detection improvement and threat hunting.
This is a hands‐on security operations role suited to someone with practical SOC or security operations experience who wants to continue building their capability across a variety of customer environments.
You'll work alongside experienced Senior Analysts and Technical Leads, gaining exposure to complex investigations, customer‐specific security challenges and a broad range of technologies.
What you'll be doing
Monitor and investigate security alerts across enterprise customer environments
Analyse security events using SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk
Investigate suspicious activity across identity, cloud, endpoint and network telemetry
Support incident response activities including investigation, scoping, containment and escalation
Work with technologies including Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and Cortex XDR
Tune existing detections and help reduce false positives and alert noise
Assist with the development of new detections and customer‐specific security use cases
Participate in threat hunting activities based on threat intelligence, customer concerns or identified indicators
Identify gaps in logging, detections and security visibility
Support vulnerability management activities, including reviewing and prioritising findings
Communicate security findings and recommendations clearly to customers and internal stakeholders
Contribute to automation, process improvement and broader SOC capability development
Work closely with Senior Analysts and Technical Leads on complex investigations and escalations
Participate in the team's rotating on‐call roster for after‐hours escalations
What you'll bring
Practical experience working in a SOC,



MSSP, MDR or security operations environment
Hands‐on experience investigating security alerts and incidents
Experience with a SIEM such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk or a comparable platform
Exposure to EDR/XDR platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike or Cortex XDR
Understanding of common identity and account compromise scenarios
Exposure to Microsoft Azure, Entra ID or broader cloud security environments
An understanding of incident response and security investigation methodologies
Experience analysing logs and correlating activity across multiple data sources
Exposure to detection tuning, detection engineering or threat hunting
A good understanding of common attacker behaviours and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK;
The ability to look beyond simply closing an alert and understand why it triggered, what happened, what may be affected and what action should be taken next
The ability to connect technical findings to customer risk and communicate recommendations clearly
Curiosity, sound judgement and a willingness to challenge assumptions and investigate beyond the obvious
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with vulnerability management platforms such as Tenable or Qualys would be advantageous but is not essential.
Benefits of working at Accenture:
18 weeks paid parental leave
Long & short‐term career break opportunities
Structured career development program
Local and international career opportunities.
Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace
Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture's Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
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📌 Cybercx - Security Analyst (Melbourne)
🏢 Accenture
📍 Melbourne