Senior Security Consultant

Infosys Consulting is the worldwide management and IT consultancy unit of the Infosys Group (NYSE: INFY), a global advisor to leading companies for strategy, process engineering and technology-enabled transformation programs. We partner with clients to design and implement customized solutions to address their complex business challenges, and to help them in a post-modern ERP world. By combining innovative and human-centric approaches with the latest technological advances, we enable organizations to reimagine their future and create sustainable and lasting business value.

Role: Senior Security Consultant

Open for: Subcontracting - AUD 800 to AUD 850

Duration: 6 months with extensions

Location: Sydney - Hybrid

Purpose of the role: This role shall provide principal security technology-based consulting services incorporating the development and design of security strategy and implementation of technological solutions required to deliver key business functions in a secure and efficient manner.

Essential capabilities

• Use considerable technical expertise and judgement to define and implement technical solutions that support business needs
• Provide strategic input to design and quality assurance of technology solutions
• Confer with systems users to develop areas of change in requirements, which permit greater efficiency, systems integration or cost reduction
• Undertake research into new hardware or operating system technology and maintain an authoritative understanding of technology changes and developments
• Develop specialised proposals and detailed technical evaluations of products and techniques to meet business needs
• Provide technical input to design of major technology solutions and oversee their execution
• Investigate longer-term strategic and high complexity software or hardware problems and coordinate resolution with software vendors, hardware manufacturers as required
• Technical design, coordinating the work on systems and integrating new applications with existing systems and files
• Provide effective and efficient infrastructure support to customers
• Undertake application development diagnostic work, where required, to troubleshoot issues
• Contribute to the creation of technical strategies
• Support specific project goals by providing expertise and technical assurance for key system components to support costing efforts and to ensure the integrity of design.
• Execute tasks associated with the discipline; so as to maintain the integrity and quality of the operating environment
• Continue advancing the sub-group expertise (i.e. Programming, Software Product Knowledge, Database Management, Network Management or Systems Security) within the Technical Specialist service area

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensure processes are in place for the analysis and provision of training and or capability enhancement initiatives
• Provide input to current and future capability needs, resulting in resource plans
• Develop substantive expertise in alternative and complementary hardware and software offerings to enhance understanding of potential systems
• Continually evaluate working practices and procedures to help the implementation of cost-effective methodologies for high-quality technology developments

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide and exercise security best practice in the undertaking of their day to day responsibilities
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities within the team
• Actively identify, report and implement risk remediation tasks as appropriate to their role.
• Design, develop and implement in collaboration with Mainframe Identity Service Security Architects.

Experience

• 10+ years' experience in a Security Analyst role (Mainframe)
• Advanced professional experience in a relevant field
• Relevant Financial Services Industry experience advantageous
• Tertiary qualification in a Technology discipline or related field

Specific skills:

• JCL (Job Control Language) coding experience
• SAS (Statistical Analysis System) programming expertise
• ISPF (Interactive System Productivity Facility) - ISPF Dialogue Management Services Expertise
• SDSF (Spool Display Search Facility)
• RACF Security Expertise – including security control design reviews to ensure ongoing compliance with organisational security requirements
• Audit, Risk, Controls Background/exposure

We offer you great opportunities within a dynamically growing consulting organization. You will elaborate and deliver best practice solutions and will be able to further develop your skills. At Infosys Consulting you will discover a truly global culture that embraces diversity at all levels, working with highly dedicated and motivated colleagues, a cooperative work environment and interesting training opportunities.