Principal Incident Response Analyst

About the role

Atlassian is looking for a Principal Incident Response Analyst to join its Security Detection and Response team. The role leads the region's security incident response, from initial triage to remediation, and covers planning, tool development, playbook creation and project delivery. It is based in Australia and is remote.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical investigations and coordinate cross-team responses during critical (Severity 0/1) incidents
• Communicate incident status clearly to executives, management and stakeholders such as Legal, Privacy and Communications
• Act as primary liaison with external bodies such as law enforcement, CERTs and ISACs
• Coach and mentor team members in day-to-day incident response
• Deliver projects that build new tools, systems and programs, and run regular training exercises and drills
• Run post-incident reviews to find root causes and improve the process
• Work with other security teams on prevention strategies and share threat intelligence on Atlassian's products and infrastructure

Required profile

• 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 and coordinating across teams
• Specialisation in two or more of: Malware Analysis, Forensics, Threat Hunting, Network Analysis or Cloud Endpoint Analysis
• Strong written and oral communication, analytical skills and ability to work under pressure

Required skills

• Technical foundation in security technologies (e.g. firewalls, IDS), cloud platforms (GCP) and network protocols
• Building and maintaining security tools with a scripting or programming language (e.g. Python, Go)
• Creating and maintaining incident response playbooks

What we offer

• Base pay set within a range according to skills, knowledge and experience
• Possible eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions and equity
• Health and wellbeing resources and paid volunteer days