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Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response Team (Australia)

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Remote, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate end-to-end response for high-severity security incidents during the APAC window and rotating on-call schedule.
  • Investigate complex cloud security incidents using Digital Forensics and Incident Response methodologies.
  • Design detection capabilities, SIEM use cases, alerting strategies, and telemetry pipelines with Detection Engineering.
  • Build automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve triage, investigation speed, and response consistency.
  • Prepare executive communications, conduct root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation.
  • Partner with Threat Intelligence and cross-functional teams, lead proactive initiatives such as tabletops, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in security incident response and investigations in cloud-first environments.
  • Experience using or administering Git or GitLab in a security or engineering context.
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, and/or detection engineering.
  • Experience with AWS and GCP cloud platforms.
  • Familiarity with threat intelligence and adversary tactics such as MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Experience building or working with automation, Python, scripting, or SOAR platforms.
  • Interest or experience applying AI/ML or data-driven techniques to detection, triage, or response workflows.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to operate during high-severity incidents.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Remote work; the role operates in a global 24/7 follow-the-sun model and requires rotating on-call participation.
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1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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