Offensive Security Engineer-SydneyBrisbane
Posted:
2 October 2026 (14 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
30 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Only for Australia PR/Citizens
Job Title: Offensive Security Engineer (Red / Purple Team)
Location: Brisbane / Sydney
Responsibilities:
- Runs red and purple team engagements against critical apps infrastructure and controls
- Builds and maintains fit-for-purpose red team infrastructure
- Validates controls detection and logging; finds gaps and proves they are closed
- Owns and matures Breach & Attack Simulation
- Uses AI to scale attack-path analysis and prioritise the gaps that matter
- Closes the loop: proposes remediation new detections log sources and controls; drives findings into the engineering backlog
Must-have skills:
- Hands-on offence: adversary emulation C2 exploitation attack-path analysis across cloud / infra / endpoint
- Detection and logging fluency (the purple half)
- BAS and ATT&CK
- Python and automation; tight rules-of-engagement discipline
- AI coding / agentic tools (GPT-5.5 Trusted Access for Cyber Codex Claude Code Copilot or similar) to find and prove exploitable vulns at repo scale
- GitLab Ultimate; standing up AI-assisted code-analysis infrastructure
- Detection engineering
- Application / code security experience (SAST DAST SCA)