Work with cutting-edge AI technology that helps make the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) develops market-leading counter-drone solutions used by military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement operating in some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world. Employees work at the forefront of innovation, solving complex technical problems and delivering mission-critical capabilities where performance, reliability, and speed matter.

As an ASX200-listed company and the world's only publicly listed pure-play counter-drone business, DroneShield is experiencing rapid growth. Revenue increased from A$57 million in 2024 to more than A$217 million in 2025, supported by record profitability, a global sales pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and annual R&D; investment of over A$50 million.

Since 2017, DroneShield has grown from 11 employees to more than 550 globally, with operations across Australia, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, supporting customers in over 70 countries.

The role is based at DroneShield's Sydney headquarters, which houses corporate, commercial, engineering, and operational teams supporting the company's global growth and customer base.

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.

Key responsibilities for this role include own and improve our existing detection strategy, including tooling, custom detections, process, threat intelligence etc. This role will also be responsible for the response strategy including handling incidents, being incident commander, staff training, tooling and others. Other areas this role will influence and/or drive change are corporate security and vulnerability management.

Detection and Response should be viewed as a closed loop. Detections should enhance responses and focus on providing enriched information to responders and improving the signal-to-noise ratio. Responders should leverage automated playbooks to respond to incidents as quickly as possible and use incident reviews as opportunities to improve or create new detections.

The ideal candidate will have a strategic view of both spaces and will drive change so that this loop works well – they will improve and implement our detection strategy to facilitate response and will use response metrics and learnings to influence new detections. They will enhance this process with threat intelligence and vulnerability management metrics as well.

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills,



being a hands-on engineer and will have a systemic view of the problem space focusing on solving the biggest problems and designing solutions that can scale. Experience in detection and response operations, including the investigation, triage, and management of security incidents. Exposure to incident coordination and stakeholder communication during security events is desirable. Experience with automation and forensics is highly desirable.

This position offers the prospect to contribute to the security of hardware products with complex threat models.

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

Collabor

📌 Detection and Response Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Droneshield
📍 Sydney