Total 115 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.