Cyber Security

2 weeks ago

Darebin, Australia City of Darebin Full time
Permanent, full time

  • Convenient Preston location, close to public transport
At Darebin, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of how we work.

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About Darebin City Council

Located in Melbourne's northern suburbs, Darebin City Council is home to one of the largest, most diverse communities in terms of culture, language, religion, socio-economic background, occupation, and housing needs.

The city has one of the largest populations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents in metropolitan Melbourne. Our Vision is for a community that works together to advance community life.

**About the Role

  • Primary escalation point and SME within IT Services for all significant information security events or incidents and leading security response activities in consultation with incident response handlers.
  • Ensuring that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures, gather evidence following forensic evidence procedures maintaining a chain of custody and facilitate recovery along with documentation, incident root cause analysis and minimise probability of recurrence.
  • Influences enhancements to business and IT processes to improve compliance to the Victorian Protective Data Security Framework (VPDSF) and/or ISO27000x
  • Provide regular and ad hoc advice to projects on security matters. Oversee and technically Implement Cyber Security initiatives, ensuring appropriate development and implementation of flexible security solutions that are dictated by the needs of a continually changing environment.
  • Monitor security threat detection technologies, and appropriately respond to security threats, ensuring appropriate ICT resources are engaged and mitigation techniques are applied in line with playbook responses, and are appropriately documented.
  • Work with the appropriate IT teams to define the operational security needs for Darebin City Council keeping in mind contemporary security issues, Audit findings and compliance requirements.
  • Develop and maintain operational documentation including but not limited to, standard operating environment (SOE) configurations, device hardening instructions, operational procedures, playbooks, configuration templates, and guidelines.
  • Work collaboratively with key stakeholders, vendor/supplier representatives and other IT teams/experts to identify, define and ensure security solutions best fit business needs and coordinate all security activities with the ICT leadership team and its customers including resolving security issues, design and implementation of new security requirements and scheduled system maintenance windows and patching regimes
  • Develop, maintain and publish up to date information on security services policies, standards & guidelines.
  • Performs ongoing research and support tasks for existing operational security systems.
  • Analyses complex data for trends and provides indepth analysis.
  • Develops and conducts presentations and consultations to supporting business areas.
  • Evaluates available software and data to deliver better business solutions.
  • Ensure accurate records are maintained, and consistent with
  • Darebin City Council protocols.

Skills & Experience

  • Relevant post graduate IT qualification and 510 years relevant experience in either Security Operations, Digital Forensics or Data Security.
  • Proved track record of championing a culture of continuous improvement proactively identifying and securing systems, services and processes and driving the use of smart technology to help drive business invest in Cyber Security performance to secure and mitigate risks
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating IT security initiatives and projects that are strategically aligned with organisational strategy.
  • Demonstrated analytical and strong technical problemsolving skills, including the ability to work both autonomously and within a close team environment. Adhere to technical standards and where required use professional judgement and problem resolution skills to provide informed advice and assistance to a broad range of clients.
  • Proven ability to gain support, maintain professional relationships that underpin IT Security Operations; manage stakeholder expectations across the organisation and using expert judgement and negotiation skills deliver professional IT Security Operations services that support long term operational strategies.
  • Knowledge on cyber security, risk and audit practices as they pertain to IT Operational services and local government, with experience in management, deployment and maintenance of such practices.
  • Demonstrated experience developing new and updating existing security operations playbooks and processes that will support