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Offensive Security Engineer-SydneyBrisbane

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Job Location:

Sydney - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
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)