Ko Mātou – About Us

Kia Hanga I Te Ao, E Ora Ai, E Tupu Ai, Te Tangata Me Te Kainga. At ANZ, we’re shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Mō te tūranga - About the role

Our Security Operations squad plays a critical role in protecting the bank, our customers, and our systems from evolving cyber threats. You'll help safeguard customer data, identities, and finances while ensuring our technology remains secure, resilient, and available. You'll help defend against everything from phishing and ransomware to cloud-based attacks, supply chain compromises, and sophisticated threats posed by advanced adversaries.

 As a CSOC Analyst your key priorities include:

• Responding to security incidents and coordinating a cohesive response involving multiple teams across ANZ.
• Developing detections, automations, and response workflows that improve our ability to identify and respond to cyber threats.
• Investigating security incidents across endpoints, networks, cloud platforms, and identity systems.
• Providing root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and support during cyber security incidents.
• Developing playbooks and solutions that improve incident response capabilities and reduce manual effort.
• Evaluating and communicating the changing threat landscape to stakeholders, including emerging techniques targeting cloud, identity, and enterprise environments.
• Supporting investigations involving modern attack techniques such as phishing, malware, ransomware, identity-based attacks, supply chain compromises, and denial-of-service activity.

Role Location: Auckland or Wellington

Role Type: Permanent, Fulltime

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, plus some contributions to a 24/7 on-call roster 

Ka aha tō rā e kite ai? - What will your day look like

As a Security Analyst it is expected that you will be the primary responder to security incidents and be able to coordinate a cohesive response involving multiple teams across ANZ. You'll help drive continuous improvements uplifting SOC in threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities through automation, threat hunting, security engineering, and intelligence-led defence, ensuring we remain resilient in the face of emerging cyber risks.

Ōu Pūkenga? - What will you bring?

• Experience working in Security Operations, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting or a related cyber security discipline.

• Understanding of best practices in network security, security operations, systems security, incident response, and cyber defence.
• Deep technical understanding of application security, OS internals, infrastructure security, digital forensics, malware analysis, cloud security, identity security, or some combination.
• Understanding of security vulnerabilities, attacker techniques, tactics, procedures (TTPs), and methods for their detection and remediation.
• Strong written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.
• A desire to continuously learn new techniques and technologies and bring innovative ideas into the squad.
• The ability to contribute to the creation and maintenance of inclusive workplace culture.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

He aha te take e uru ai koe ki a mātou? - So, why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive.  

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career.  

We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.    

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

Kua wātea te katoa ki te tono. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.  

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 119378.

Job Posting End Date

02/08/2026, 11.59pm, (New Zealand)