SIEM Tester (AU Citizen with Security Clearance)

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About the Role

We are seeking a SIEM Tester to support the validation and assurance of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, security monitoring use cases, and threat detection capabilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for testing security detection rules, log ingestion pipelines, alerts, dashboards, and reporting functionality across SIEM technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, or Elastic Security.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for SIEM platforms.

• Validate log collection, parsing, normalization, and enrichment from various security and infrastructure sources.

• Test security use cases, detection rules, correlation searches, and alerting mechanisms.

• Perform functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing of SIEM solutions.

• Validate dashboards, reports, and threat-hunting queries.

• Simulate cyber attack scenarios and verify detection coverage and alert generation.

• Identify, document, and track defects through to resolution.

• Work with security engineers and developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

• Support deployment and release testing activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience testing SIEM platforms such as:

  • Microsoft Sentinel

  • Splunk Enterprise Security

  • IBM QRadar

  • Elastic Security

• Understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including:

  • Security Operations Centre (SOC)

  • Incident Detection and Response

  • Threat Hunting

  • Vulnerability Management

  • MITRE ATT&CK Framework

• Security Clearance

  Australian Citizenship required.

  NV1, or NV2 Security Clearance preferred

Why Join Us?

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative work environment that values your growth and well-being. As a part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Competitive Salary Package: Attractive remuneration that rewards your expertise.

• Flexible Work Arrangements: Options for remote work, hybrid models, and a strong work-life balance.

• Learning and Development: Access to world-class training programs, certifications, and mentorship opportunities to advance your skills.

• Career Growth: Defined career pathways with opportunities to work on impactful projects for global clients.

• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive health insurance, wellness programs, and mental health support.

• Paid Time Off: Generous leave policies, including parental leave and additional paid holidays.

• Diversity and Inclusion: A commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.

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Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

 
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement