Cyber Technology Strategist

About Woodside Energy

We know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential as well as bring their whole self to work. We also recognise that enduring, meaningful relationships with communities are fundamental to maintaining our licence to operate.

Technology and innovation are essential to our long-term sustainability. We are growing our carbon and new energy businesses using technology to reduce emissions and the carbon footprint of our products. We are working to improving energy efficiency, offset emissions, reduce emissions intensity and explore options for lower-carbon energy. Woodside led the development of the LNG industry in Australia and is applying this same pioneering spirit to solving future energy challenges.

Our global headquarters are based in Perth and our state-of-the-art campus reflects the quality of life Perth is known for - with a six Green Star rating, advanced wellness features and flexibility in how you work.

About the Role:

Duties & Responsibilities:

As the Cyber Technology Strategist, you will lead the strategic direction of the technical capabilities supporting the global Cyber Defense team – including Sentinel, ADX, detection pipelines, response tooling, and automation platforms – ensuring alignment to the overarching cyber strategy and roadmap.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Align all technical decisions to the Cyber Strategy and strategic OKRs, avoiding fragmented or reactive solutions
• Shape the future-state vision for global logging architecture – partnering with engineering leads to align source prioritisation, data enrichment, and coverage to our detection goals
• Provide strategic oversight across detection engineering, purple teaming, threat intel, and automation use cases
• Lead cross-functional alignment between Cyber and Digital teams, ensuring buy-in and implementation support for security architecture decisions
• Act as a roaming technical capability lead across the Cyber function – offering technical depth for complex initiatives
• Define and maintain technical guardrails, reusable patterns, and guiding principles to support scalable and secure delivery across cyber platforms
• Serve as a senior technical reviewer for cyber platforms, vendor solutions, and integration proposals 

Skills & Experience:

We are seeking someone who brings a strategic mindset combined with the ability to balance tactical uplift with long-term vision.

Your background will include extensive experience designing and implementing cyber security capabilities at enterprise scale, and you will have a strong technical knowledge across SIEM (e.g. Sentinel), data pipelines, automation, and threat detection.

You will have a proven track record demonstrating an ability to influence and collaborate across functions within the broader Digital group – including security, risk, infrastructure, and digital - as well as experience in driving alignment across other busines sfunctions such as engineering, governance, and business teams.

If you think you can do this job but don’t meet all the criteria, that’s OK! Please apply. At Woodside, we value people with diverse experiences and backgrounds, as they provide unique perspectives that help us innovate.

Recognition & Reward:

What you can expect from us:

• Commitment to your ongoing development, including on-the-job opportunities, formal programs, coaching and mentoring
• Industry-leading 18 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carer, and maintenance of superannuation or retirement benefits at the current rate during any period of unpaid parental leave for up to 24 months (plus secondary carer leave entitlements)
• Values led culture
• Active employee community groups for gender equality, reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and LGBTI+ staff and allies, and Neurodiversity
• Community volunteering opportunities
• A competitive remuneration package featuring performance-based incentives and above-industry superannuation contributions

Woodside is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce culture, which is supported by our Values. Our aim is to attract, develop and retain a truly diverse and high-performing workforce. 

Diversity encompasses differences in age, nationality, race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, intersex status, gender identity or expression, relationship status, disability, neurodiversity, cultural background, thinking styles, experience, family background, including caregiving commitments, and education. Inclusion centres on all employees creating a climate of trust and belonging, where people feel comfortable to bring their whole self to work.

We offer supportive pathways for all employees to grow and develop leadership skills. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those seeking a more flexible working environment, including part-time opportunities

Applications close at 11:59pm AWST on Wednesday 11th June 2025.

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Please note Woodside Energy will only accept direct candidate applications. We do not accept applications from Recruitment Agencies.