Work with cutting edge AI technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the rapidly growing counter-drone sector.
Our customers operate in some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world, including military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement. Protecting airspace in these settings requires technology that performs under pressure and teams that understand what’s at stake. At DroneShield, employees work at the leading edge of counter-drone innovation, helping to address real-world security challenges as drone threats continue to evolve globally.
With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, now part of the ASX200 index, DroneShield is experiencing a period of hypergrowth. Revenue has surged from A$57 million in 2024 to over A$217 million in 2025, representing growth of more than 400% year-on-year, with record profitability and cashflow. The total addressable global market for counter-drone is assessed at approximately $100 billion, and is currently at the nascent stage with much of the growth still to come, with DroneShield well positioned as a global market leader, and the only public listed pure-play business in this sector.
The company has grown from 11 employees in 2017 to over 450 staff globally today, and is on track to reach around 550 by the end of 2026. This expansion includes investment of over A$50 million annually in R&D, a global pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and continuous scaling of production capacity to meet accelerating demand.
The role is based at DroneShield’s central Sydney headquarters. Overseas on-the-ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries worldwide.
About the role
DroneShield is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to join the Security team in Sydney, NSW.
The Security team is a nimble team responsible for protecting DroneShield's assets and users. Our adversaries are sophisticated and use state-of-the-art tooling. To protect DroneShield, we need to focus on the biggest risks, eliminate threats, focus on automation to scale our efforts and continually increase the cost for the attackers.
Key responsibilities for this role include keeping our assets patched and updated, responding to incidents and improving security process by focusing on automation and continuous improvement. This role will also contribute on engineering work to deploy new tools and controls across laptops and incident response.
This role should be viewed as a partnership with Corporate Security and Detection & Response, with each team enabling each other to be more effective. Corporate Security automates deployment of security controls and enables telemetry, so that Detection & Response can create detections and playbooks to respond to incidents effectively.
The ideal candidate will be building their strategic understanding of Corporate Security and Detection & Response and will be an eager, capable contributor to both teams. This role requires experience in programming and automation. An interest in how LLMs can be leveraged to improve security operations is a strong plus.
Strong communication skills and being a hands-on engineer are a must have.
Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations
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Automate and deploy security controls on our corporate infrastructure
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Support and contribute to vulnerability management across our corporate infrastructure
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Be up to update with vulnerabilities/CVEs and how to mitigate them
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Assisting on responding security incidents
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Contribute to and help execute the corporate security strategy under senior direction
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Support reporting on security metrics and contribute findings and recommendations to the team
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Manage concurrent tasks and contribute to cross-team problem solving
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
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BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
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Demonstrated experience working in IT with focus on security tooling
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On-the-tools engineering experience – must be hands-on
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Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
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Minimum 2–4 years’ experience in related roles. Roles could include: IT Engineer, System Administrator, Security Engineer
Knowledge of the following is essential:
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Experience with Windows and MacOS
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Experience managing MDM and MAM solutions
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Experience with alert triaging
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Reducing the attack surface through system hardening
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Threat Modelling – focusing on the threat, controls and mitigations.
Knowledge of the following is desirable:
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Experience with Linux
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Experience with XDR
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Experience with Secure Remote Access approaches
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Ability to think creatively to identify potential security vulnerabilities.
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Automation experience, writing scripts in Go or Python.
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Have experimented on leveraging LLM for automation.
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Systems thinking focus on design solutions that improve the system.
Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.
