Cyber Incident Response Lead in Sydney

Cyber Incident Response Lead in Sydney

Sydney Full-Time 72000 - 88000 $ / year (est.) Hybrid
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead cyber incident response, coordinating teams and ensuring effective communication.
  • Company: Join Macquarie, a global financial services leader with a strong culture of support.
  • Benefits: Enjoy wellbeing leave, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.
  • Other info: Inclusive workplace committed to diverse perspectives and career growth.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in cybersecurity while shaping your career in a dynamic environment.
  • Qualifications: 5+ years in security roles, strong communication skills, and experience with incident management.

The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 $ per year.

Join Macquarie’s Cyber Threat Incident Response team based in our Sydney office as a Cyber Incident Responder. In this role, you will act as the central coordination point for cyber incidents, ensuring aligned execution, clear communication, and consistent delivery of investigative outcomes across teams.

What role will you play?

In this role, you will enable effective cyber incident response through coordination, communication, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring defensive actions are executed efficiently and collaboratively. You will serve as the Incident Response Lead, driving the identification, prioritization, and delegation of investigative and remediation tasks using experience and evolving findings to guide decision-making. As the central point of coordination, you will ensure alignment across Cyber Threat Incident Response and partner teams, facilitate communication and handovers, maintain accurate case tracking, and deliver timely status updates and executive-level summaries as required.

What you offer:

  • Proven ability to lead cybersecurity incident response activities, including generating, prioritizing, and delegating investigative actions, and managing technical handovers across global teams.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders and effectively managing relationships during high-pressure incident scenarios.
  • Ability to manage incidents across the full lifecycle, including driving post-incident remediation and follow-up activities through to completion.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, concise updates to both technical teams and executive leadership.
  • Solid understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures, with the ability to apply an adversarial mindset during investigations.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale security environments, including large-scale log analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk), and a minimum of 5 years in security or technology roles within large organizations.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us; if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer:

  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year.
  • Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year.
  • Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers.
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
  • Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations.
  • Access to a wide range of salary packaging options.
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment.

About Technology:

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Inclusion at Macquarie:

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.

Cyber Incident Response Lead in Sydney employer: Macquarie Bank Limited

At Macquarie, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation within our Technology team. With a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, we provide generous benefits such as wellbeing leave, paid parental leave, and extensive learning opportunities, all while empowering you to shape a fulfilling career in a global financial services environment. Join us in making a meaningful impact as we drive technology solutions that support business outcomes across 30 markets.

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Contact Details:

Macquarie Bank Limited Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Cyber Incident Response Lead in Sydney

Cybersecurity Incident Response
Coordination Skills
Stakeholder Engagement
Incident Management
Post-Incident Remediation
Communication Skills
Threat Actor Tactics Understanding