Cyber Incident Response Lead – Hybrid in Sydney

Cyber Incident Response Lead – Hybrid in Sydney

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

  • Tasks: Lead cyber incident response and coordinate across global teams to tackle security challenges.
  • Company: Join Macquarie, a global financial services leader with a strong commitment to innovation.
  • Benefits: Enjoy wellbeing leave, flexible work options, and extensive professional development opportunities.
  • Other info: Inclusive environment with a focus on personal growth and community engagement.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in cybersecurity while shaping a rewarding career at Macquarie.
  • Qualifications: 5+ years in security roles, strong communication skills, and experience in 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 – Hybrid in Sydney employer: Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where employees are empowered to drive meaningful change through data-driven insights. With a strong focus on professional development, the Global Reward Advisory team offers ample opportunities for growth and learning, all while being part of a dynamic global network that values diverse perspectives and encourages impactful contributions.

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Contact Details:

Macquarie Group Recruitment Team

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

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