Senior Detection & Response Engineer
Aristocrat is seeking a Senior Detection & Response Engineer to join the Security Operations team. In this role, the engineer will help strengthen Aristocrat's detection and response capabilities through detection engineering, security automation, and operational process improvement.
The engineer will work within a hybrid Security Operations Center model and collaborate closely with teams responsible for Security Operations, the Security Engineering group, MSSP partners, and other technical teams to improve the ability to detect, investigate, and respond to security threats. This role follows a hybrid working model and requires onsite attendance at the Kraków office three days per week.
- Develop, tune, and maintain detections, correlation rules, analytics, searches, and threat detection content across SIEM, EDR, identity, email, SaaS, and security monitoring platforms.
- Identify detection gaps and develop new detection use cases to improve security coverage.
- Improve detection quality, reduce false positives, and enhance alert fidelity.
- Map detections and use cases to attacker techniques and security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Design, build, and maintain security automation workflows using Tines and other approved automation platforms.
- Build integrations using APIs, workflow automation tools, and platform-native capabilities.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve investigation and response efficiency.
- Continuously identify opportunities to streamline security processes through automation.
- Support security investigations and response activities through detection engineering, automation, and technical analysis.
- Collaborate with threat analysts, MSSP partners, and incident responders to improve operational effectiveness.
- Contribute to operational improvements that accelerate detection, investigation, and response activities.
- Assist in measuring and improving the effectiveness of detections, automations, and operational workflows.
- Partner with Security Operations, Security Engineering, IT, and Product Security teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and capabilities that improve analyst efficiency and operational effectiveness.
- Contribute to the continual evolution of Aristocrat's Security Operations program.
- Experience improving threat detection, security operations, incident response, or related cybersecurity capabilities in a production environment (required).
- Hands-on Detection Engineering experience (required).
- Strong ability to create, tune, and maintain detections, searches, analytics, or threat hunting content using security-focused query languages (required).
- Experience building and maintaining security automations using Tines, SOAR platforms, or similar workflow automation technologies (required).
- Experience designing, building, or maintaining automation workflows rather than solely operating within automated environments (required).
- Experience integrating systems via APIs, automation platforms, or platform-native capabilities (required).
- Solid understanding of threat detection, security investigations, and incident response concepts expected within a Tier 3 Security Operations environment (required).
- Ability to translate operational challenges into scalable detections, automations, and workflow improvements (required).
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working across Security Operations, Engineering, IT, and MSSP environments (required).
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package.
- Annual bonuses and incentives (depending on role and location).
- Health and wellbeing benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Retirement plans.
- Insurance coverage.
- Local or statutory benefits.
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.