Senior Security Engineer | CrowdStrike Falcon | Melbourne | Contract

The Missing Link brings together IT, cloud and cybersecurity expertise to support clients across complex technology environments.

The Missing Link is seeking a Senior Security Engineer specialising in CrowdStrike Falcon for a contract engagement supporting a client’s endpoint and cloud security platforms.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building, deploying and improving Falcon capabilities, with a strong emphasis on GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and automation. You’ll work alongside security operations and cloud teams to strengthen platform coverage, integrations and detection and response outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure and maintain Falcon sensors, host groups, security policies, exclusions, access controls and platform health.
• Extend Falcon coverage across GCP compute and Kubernetes workloads.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and deployment pipelines for repeatable configurations and cloud integrations.
• Develop Python automation and Java integrations using Falcon APIs, SDKs and event streams.
• Integrate Falcon data and workflows with Google SecOps, ServiceNow and other approved platforms.
• Partner with SOC teams to tune detections, improve response workflows and assess AI-assisted capabilities with appropriate controls.
• Troubleshoot coverage gaps and integration failures, maintaining clear documentation, runbooks and handover materials.
• Delivery across endpoint protection, cloud security, infrastructure as code and automation.
• Collaboration with specialist security operations, cloud and platform teams.

Requirements

• The Missing Link · Melbourne, Australia (Hybrid) · Contract · Posted 2026-10-21
• You’re an experienced security engineer with practical ownership of CrowdStrike Falcon in production. You combine platform engineering expertise with cloud-native development skills and can take solutions from build and testing through to deployment, operational support and knowledge transfer.
• Hands-on production experience engineering and supporting CrowdStrike Falcon.
• Strong Python and Falcon API experience for automation and workflow integration.
• Practical Terraform expertise, including modules, state management, testing, pipelines and drift management.
• Working knowledge of GCP, including IAM, service accounts, compute and networking.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers and workload security.
• Experience building or maintaining cloud-native integrations using Python and Java.
• Understanding of endpoint and cloud threat detection, policy tuning, incident response and SOC handover.

Preferred

• Falcon Cloud Security, Fusion SOAR, Foundry or Charlotte AI experience.
• CrowdStrike Terraform provider and Kubernetes deployment module experience.
• Google SecOps, ServiceNow, CI/CD or enterprise identity integrations.
• Experience supporting regulated financial services environments.

The Opportunity

A contract position focused on hands-on security engineering.

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