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Principal Incident Response Analyst

Atlassian
Sydney, AUS
Senior · 5+ years experience
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Responsibilities

  • Lead the region's security incident response, providing technical leadership during critical (Severity 0/1) incidents by driving complex investigations, cross-team coordination, and resolution.
  • Manage all incident-related communications, providing clear status updates to executives, management, and key stakeholders such as Legal, Privacy, and Communications.
  • Serve as the primary liaison with external bodies, including law enforcement, CERTs, and ISACs, during and after incidents.
  • Coach and mentor team members in their day-to-day incident response activities.
  • Own and deliver projects to advance the team's incident response capabilities, including building new tools, systems, and programs that uplift Atlassian's overall security posture.
  • Enhance team readiness by creating and running regular training exercises and incident response drills.
  • Conduct comprehensive post-incident reviews to identify root causes and drive improvements to the incident response process.
  • Collaborate with other security teams to develop long-term strategies and plans to prevent future incidents.
  • Produce and disseminate threat intelligence specific to Atlassian's products and infrastructure.
  • Stay current with the latest security trends, threats, and technologies to ensure the team remains prepared for emerging risks.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in security incident response, including leading high-severity incidents for enterprises and coordinating response efforts across multiple teams.
  • Specialization in two or more of the following areas: Malware Analysis, Forensics, Threat Hunting, Network Analysis, or Cloud Endpoint Analysis.
  • Strong technical foundation in security technologies (e.g., firewalls, IDS), cloud platforms (GCP), and network protocols.
  • Experience building and maintaining security tools using a scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Go).
  • Expertise in creating and maintaining incident response playbooks.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, with strong analytical abilities and the capacity to work effectively under high pressure.
  • More about the team
  • We value diverse skill sets and motivated individuals so that we can learn from one another and engage in interesting projects. We don't just click the same buttons over and over. You will be apart of the Security Detection and Response Organization—which includes Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Security Engineering—a group dedicated to improving Atlassian’s security posture, products and engineering practices.
  • Benefits & Perks
  • Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
  • About Atlassian
  • At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
  • We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  • To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
  • To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.
  • In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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