Total 9 security job vacancies in ACT - Canberra & Queanbeyan

At Leidos Australia, we operate a 24x7x365 Central Processing Cyber Security Operations Centre (CP SOC) capability, with the Department of Defence. CP SOC works collaboratively with the Defence Security Operations Centre (DSOC) to assist in defending one of the largest and most complex ICT networks in the southern hemisphere.

We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Analyst to join our team member to achieve Defence mission outcomes.

This is a permanent role that requires the successful applicant to working on a rotating shift roster (typically 12 hour shifts) onsite at HMAS Harman in Canberra.

This role offers you the opportunity to:

• Develop your technical and cyber security skill sets
• Build and shape security tooling to defend critical national security infrastructure
• Challenge yourself by sinking your teeth into some wicked problem sets
• Help build the team culture that you have always wanted to work in

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Self-starting individual with the right attitude, aptitude and zeal to identify, take ownership of and solve challenging problems
• Interest in continual learning and development of themselves
• Be prepared to rapidly upskill yourself to respond to adversaries
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• A working knowledge of applicable industry and government cyber security frameworks

As a Cyber Security Analyst, working within a 24/7 Security Operations team, you will monitor networks and endpoints for security events, alerts, active threats, intrusions and compromises and perform triage.  Depending on the issue you may manage the event end to end, consult with your peers or escalate as appropriate. 

This is a great opportunity to build upon your existing technical knowledge and skills and grow your career in a dedicated cyber security role.  Your responsibilities will include;

• Analysis of security events from multiple sources including but not limited to events from the Security Information and Event Management tool, network intrusion systems and Host based Intrusion Prevention tools (AV, HIPS, Application Whitelisting);
• Monitor and assess emerging threats and vulnerabilities to the environment and ensure those requiring action are addressed;
• Security Incident Management, advice and education and maintaining the currency and health of the deployed security tools;
• Provide technical administration support for security suite of software and hardware;
• Produce contractual and stakeholder reports and review, document and improve processes to contribute to the overall security of the environment.
• Develop your leadership skills, and within the broader team, to meet mission and contractual outcomes
• Working collaboratively with stakeholders to triage, manage and report on security incidents,
• Build relationships with stakeholders
• Actively develop SOC tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP’s) and security toolsets
• Develop custom signatures to Identify, Detect, Protect, Respond and Recover from adversary’s attacks.
• Undertake Incident Reposponse activities using known adversary TTP’s and Indicators of Compromise (IOC’s) to detect advanced threats.
• Undertake Incident report writing development of security operational documentation

Leidos has a long serving history with Defence to provide mature cyber capability to support Australia's Defence mission. We are seeking experienced and security focused people to ensure its success.

If you want the following as part of your next role, please get in touch:

• Important and engaging work
• Leading edge technology
• Excellent training and career development
• Generous salaries at comparable market rates
• Energetic and focused high performing team
• Work with experienced peers on a well-resourced operation supporting the ADF
• Contribute to enhancing national security

This position as a SOC Senior Security Operations Analyst will see you leading a 24/7 Monitoring, Detection and Response teams. Responsible for leading, mentoring and providing the conduct of initial triage management and recommending actions to resolve incidents with minimal guidance.

Reporting directly to Senior Security Operations Lead, you will have the opportunity to help shape and develop our high-performing MDR team as they conduct their vital function in protecting critical Defence systems.

The role requires someone who is comfortable with some ambiguity, and is comfortable making decisions with limited oversight, as well as collaborating and engaging positively with other service providers and multiple areas of Defence.

The SOC is a 24x7x365 operation, operating multiple MDR shift teams across a rotating shift roster. This role will require you to encourage and lead a SOC MDR shift team, work closely with internal SOC teams and engaging with cross-functional teams on regular occasions in supporting our customer in their mission. You will also have additional tasks providing recommendations and working with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunt and Threat detection Analyst for process and control improvements within the SOC.

This key management role oversees end-to-end delivery of a suite of integrated cybersecurity services to our customer. This hands-on role will utilise your stakeholder management, operational management and service improvement skills in a high tempo environment. Leading a small team of SDM and Operational support staff, you will coordinate with our operational teams to provide customer-centric technical support and service request fulfilment to multiple secure networks and environments.

Key responsibilities.

• Lead and develop a team comprised of Service Delivery, ITSM and operations staff.
• Partner and coordinate with the customer and provider’s teams to deliver a range of cybersecurity services in accordance with performance requirements.
• Manage monitoring and reporting on service performance and other operational aspects across cybersecurity services and cross functional services.
• Identify, scope and deliver continuous service improvement initiatives including driving process and cost optimisation.
• Manage operational escalations and coordinate across teams to respond to incidents to ensure appropriate technical management and customer engagement / communications are in place.
• Be the key contact and coordination point for stakeholder operational needs to deliver the right level of stakeholder interaction, collaboration and communications.
• Oversee the production of key operational reports, risk and vulnerability assessments to ensure an overarching operational view is communicated and all artefacts meet the required quality control and standards.
• Coordinate information and knowledge management for service delivery as well as contributing to the quality assurance function.
• Represent Leidos in operational and management meetings and consult with leadership teams to drive outcomes.
• Assist in presales and production of contract changes, proposals and Leidos submissions.

At Leidos Australia, we operate a 24x7x365 Central Processing Cyber Security Operations Centre (CP SOC) capability, with the Department of Defence. CP SOC works collaboratively with the Defence Security Operations Centre (DSOC) to assist in defending one of the largest and most complex ICT networks in the southern hemisphere.

We are seeking a Junior Cyber Security Analyst to join CP SOC.

If you want to break into Cyber Security, or seeking to move into a new role, while being part of a high performance team, which is committed to your professional growth, with a mission focused on defending critical national infrastructure, then this is the job for you. 

This is a permanent role that requires the successful applicant to working on a rotating shift roster (typically 12 hour shifts) onsite at HMAS Harman in Canberra.

This role offers you the opportunity to:

• Develop your technical and cyber security skill sets
• Build and shape security tooling to defend critical national security infrastructure
• Challenge yourself by sinking your teeth into some wicked problem sets
• Help build the team culture that you have always wanted to work in

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Self-starting individual with the right attitude, aptitude and zeal to identify, take ownership of and solve challenging problems
• Interest in continual learning and development of themselves
• Be prepared to rapidly upskill yourself to respond to adversaries
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• An awareness of applicable industry and government cyber security frameworks

As a Junior Security Analyst working within a 24/7 Security Operations team you will monitor networks and endpoints for security events, alerts, active threats, intrusions and compromises and perform triage.  Depending on the issue you may manage the event end to end, consult with your peers or escalate as appropriate. 

This is a great opportunity to build upon your existing technical knowledge and skills and grow your career in a dedicated cyber security role.  Your responsibilities will include;

• Analysis of security events from multiple sources including but not limited to events from the Security Information and Event Management tool, network intrusion systems and Host based Intrusion Prevention tools (AV, HIPS, Application Whitelisting);
• Monitor and assess emerging threats and vulnerabilities to the environment and ensure those requiring action are addressed;
• Security Incident Management, advice and education and maintaining the currency and health of the deployed security tools;
• Provide technical administration support for security suite of software and hardware;
• Produce contractual and stakeholder reports and review, document and improve processes to contribute to the overall security of the environment.

We have a great opportunity to join a highly motivated and dedicated team of cyber professionals providing a leading cyber security capability for the environments that our deployed military personnel rely on.  This role enables you to utilise your broad experience in a supportive team environment, learn new technologies in the cyber security space and interact with highly technical peers, partners and customer personnel. 

Your New Role 

As a Cyber Security Risk Analyst Lead, you will be responsible for conducting proactive risk management activities including the delivery of high-quality, comprehensive risk assessments, discovery and analysis, as well as tracking and reporting. This is an interesting role with broad responsibilities and scope that will allow you to test and hone your skills, whilst contributing to National Security, your responsibilities will include the following; 

• Lead and undertake the timely delivery of cyber security risk analysis and advisory services to stakeholders and the broader team. 
• Prioritisation and presentation of identified risks and recommendations at the relevant forums. 
• Proactive maintenance of the risk register and tracking of risk response progress. 
• Ongoing oversight, measuring, and monitoring of security risk across multiple complex environments. 
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of security controls against the Australian Government ISM, Essential 8, NIST, other approved cyber security frameworks, and standard designs. 
• Development and submission of high-quality artefacts including risk assessments and reports. 
• Practical application of cyber security governance, risk, and compliance principles and frameworks. 
• Continuous improvement of risk management processes and service delivery. 
• Mentoring of staff. 
• Security and compliance auditing. 
• Documentation and record management. 

Looking to make a move into Cyber Security?

If you have the necessary clearance (NV-2 minimum) and have experience in some of the points listed below, we encourage you to apply.

Responsiblities: 

• Support the secure and effective delivery of ICT systems to the Department Of Defence
• Responsible for system security monitoring, accreditation lifecycle activities, security reporting, security verification and validation
• Ensure system compliance with Commonwealth security standards as well as privacy and secrecy requirements
• Provide leadership in the creation and maintenance of a secure ICT environment across various locations
• Lead identification, implementation and review of the full range of security measures to minimise risk to Australian Government assets
• Provide security guidance to other teams within the organisation to ensure system integrity is maintained.

Are you ready to be part of an energetic high performing Cyber security team doing work that matters?

We have a great opportunity to join a leading edge team that directly supports our Defence personnel in the field. Our cyber security engineers support the security function for our customer ensuring systems are available, appropriately maintained and secured which ensures the people who put themselves in harm’s way for all of Australia have secure and appropriately hardened systems to support them.

Working within a high performing supportive team this role allows you to utilise your broad experience and make a real difference. Your responsibilities will include

• Provide operational support for a number of Cyber security tools including ongoing tuning and improvements
• Assist with design, deployment and maintenance of cyber security tools;
• Undertake routine patching and configuration tasks; and
• Perform integration and other testing functions.

Your New Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to perform crucial, high value and comprehensive cybersecurity services to support and protect our personnel in the Australian Defence Forces.

The Senior Security Operations Lead role will be responsible for coordinating a 24x7 security operations capability, ensuring that our analysts are continuously developing professionally, enabled and engaged in their mission to proactively monitor our networks for threats.

This is a business hours based role that covers co-ordination of handovers between shifts, provides a technical escalation point and most importantly trains and mentors a team of enthusiastic analysts who are eager to learn and grow.

If you like sharing your knowledge and seeing the team grow and develop this is an excellent opportunity for you. The role is best suited for a motivated, self-starter who enjoys taking charge of problems and working to solve them.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinating our 24x7 monitoring capability ensuring activities are being conducted consistently across shifts and events are proactively responded to in a timely manner
• Providing consultative and technical advice to colleagues and stakeholders on cyber security operations
• Working closely with analysts to develop personalized professional development pathways
• Curating a suite of playbooks and documentation to capture processes and procedures
• Driving improvements to our capability through development of our monitoring tools including such artefacts as dashboards, rule creation and tuning, and custom SOAR components.
• Coordinating workflows through the maintenance and curation of ticketing queues for security operations
• Contributing to reporting on System Health Indicators for our environments and Key Performance Indicators for the delivery of our service

Please note:

• This role is based on a customer site and remote working options are limited. 
• This role is Monday to Friday, with flexible start and finish times

Leidos Australia have a great opportunity within our Security Engineering team for a strong manager and principal leader to drive our delivery and services in support of Defence. Leading a geographically dispersed team with a wide range of skills and career aspirations, you will grow and mature team members ensuing core capabilities are in place to manage Security Controls across multiple environments.

As the Security Engineering Lead you will be responsible for the engineering processes and tools, ensuring they are set up and operational to deliver; safe, fit for purpose and supportable solutions to our Defence customers. In this role you will drive risk management, improve environment security posture to meet current and emerging threats, and will proactively work with other areas of the team to report and track compliance of policies and regulations. More specifically you will be responsible for: 

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the Security Engineering team, ensuring the teams are meeting operational and performance objectives and develop team members to ensure they have relevant skills and qualifications. 
• Assess and manage risks to the effectiveness of platforms and services to protect against current and emerging threats.  
• Provide advice and guidance to the team on defence engineering related technologies data and trends to identify area for contract growth and support the account strategy.Team-level budgeting, planning, and roadmap. 
• Manage and improve Security Controls specific processes, dependencies, and integrations across multiple environments. 
• Stakeholder management to ensure that the Security Engineering Team meet the needs of the business and comply with all relevant laws, and regulations and enforce company policies and procedures. 
• Contribute to the Cyber Security strategy and ensure the team is aligned with the strategy.
• Responding to audit findings, prioritizing remediation measures and manage the budget your team, including staff, contracts, and technology. 
• Identify demands, objectives and key results and define and monitor supporting performance metrics. 
• Ensure the availability, stability, and performance of Security Control platforms.