Cyber Security Operations Analyst
Aristocrat is seeking a Cyber Security Operations Analyst to join its team and maintain the security and integrity of its modern gaming environment. This role is essential for ensuring the security of the company's operations.
The analyst will act as a subject matter expert, staying current on emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and attack methods, while also guiding the team. They will be responsible for defining and championing the cybersecurity vision and roadmap for the Technology Services Network Support environment, and supporting implementation efforts.
Furthermore, the role involves evaluating and engaging with vendors and OEMs to assess products and solutions, with a focus on CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Rubrik platforms, ensuring alignment with organizational cybersecurity requirements. The analyst will develop, track, and present meaningful performance metrics to leadership, demonstrating the effectiveness of cybersecurity strategies, controls, and policies through regular monthly reporting.
Effective presentation of high-level cybersecurity strategies, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership is crucial, while maintaining a detailed understanding of the underlying gaming infrastructure and related technologies. The position requires the ability to rapidly develop a deep understanding of the distinctions between the gaming network environment and core enterprise IT infrastructure, and to apply this knowledge to security and operational decision-making.
Key responsibilities include monitoring alerts, logs, and platform health across endpoint, network, and backup systems, ensuring alignment with best practice responses and business reporting. The analyst will investigate, triage, advance, and document security incidents and operational issues with a focus on auditable deliverables. Support for WAN-connected gaming operations through issue isolation and technical response is also required. Building and maintaining automation for monitoring, alerting, and reporting tasks for agile and proactive responsiveness, as well as maintaining runbooks, procedures, incident records, and audit-ready documentation, are essential. The role also involves supporting compliance efforts in a highly regulated gaming environment. Additional cyber security or infrastructure related tasks may be assigned as necessary.
- Stay current on emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attack methods, and industry trends, while educating, coaching, and guiding the team as a subject matter expert.
- Define, communicate, and champion the cybersecurity vision and roadmap for the Technology Services Network Support environment, while supporting and coordinating implementation efforts from planning through execution.
- Evaluate and engage with vendors and OEMs, assessing products and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational cybersecurity requirements, with a focus on CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Rubrik platforms.
- Develop, track, and present meaningful performance metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of cybersecurity strategies, controls, and policies through regular monthly reporting to leadership.
- Effectively present high-level cybersecurity strategies, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership while maintaining a detailed understanding of the underlying gaming infrastructure and related technologies at a granular level.
- Rapidly develop a deep understanding of the distinctions between the gaming network environment and core enterprise IT infrastructure, and apply that knowledge to security and operational decision-making.
- Effectively monitor alerts, logs, and platform health across endpoint, network, and backup systems and ensure alignment with best practice responses and business reporting.
- Investigate, triage, advance, and document security incidents and operational issues with a focus on auditable deliverables.
- Support WAN-connected gaming operations through issue isolation and technical response.
- Build and maintain automation for monitoring, alerting, and reporting tasks for agile and proactive responsiveness.
- Maintain runbooks, procedures, incident records, and audit-ready documentation.
- Support compliance efforts in a highly regulated gaming environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field (required).
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on cybersecurity, security operations, or related technical experience (required).
- Experience with CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Rubrik or comparable expertise in a production environment (required).
- Knowledge of security monitoring, endpoint protection, firewall administration, and backup/recovery operations (required).
- Experience in a true 24/7 operational environment (required).
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and reporting skills (required).
- Ability to work hybrid in Las Vegas with required in-office time (required).
- Ability to acquire and maintain required gaming licenses (required).
- Experience in gaming, hospitality, or other regulated industries (preferred).
- Experience with SIEM, centralized logging, and vulnerability management (preferred).
- Scripting or automation experience with PowerShell, Python, or similar tools (preferred).
- Experience partnering with corporate or enterprise security teams (preferred).
- CompTIA Security+ (nice-to-have).
- CEH (nice-to-have).
- GSEC (nice-to-have).
- CISSP (nice-to-have).
- Relevant Palo Alto certification (nice-to-have).
- Relevant CrowdStrike certification or equivalent training (nice-to-have).
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.