Information Technology Security Advisor

3 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Indigenous Business Australia Full time

**Title**:Information Technology Security Advisor **Position no**:7026
(ITSA)

**Level**:IBA Level 7 ($146,074 - $171,151) **Last updated**:April 2023

**Location**:Canberra or Sydney **Term**:Ongoing

**Program**:Business Services

**Section**:Information Technology

**Context**:
Indigenous Business Australia, partners and invests with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people who want to own their future. We go further than provide money; we invest in people, places
and ideas that are ready. We help make them real. We’re deeply invested in the financial success
and economic independence of Indigenous Australians. It’s why we exist.

We provide a range of services for Indigenous Australians to create wealth and accumulate assets,
take up investment opportunities, create business enterprises that provide additional employment
focus, and by building mutually respectful and productive partnerships with Indigenous Australians,
government, non-government and private sector organisations.

Our staff are invested, informed, responsive, respected and connected.

**Role**:
Reporting to the Director of IT, the Senior IT Security Adviser (ITSA) drives cybersecurity strategy,
investment and culture to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IBA electronic
information by communicating risk to senior management, creating and maintaining enforceable
policies and supporting processes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

In line with ICT strategic direction the Senior ITSA will assist with Cloud Services integrations to
build security into and around IBA’s customer, public and staff facing systems. The ability to
provide technical delivery support of ICT environment migration projects with a Managed Services
approach to market is required. Effective verbal and written communication skills and proficiency in
writing technical specifications or documentation is required. The ability to prepare business cases
and project documents for ICT projects though an ICT security lens to drive actions and activities
that build and sustain a culture of cybersecurity readiness is important.

**Duties**:

- Contribute to the development and implementation of the IBA Cybersecurity strategy,
- plans, policies, roadmaps and architecture to safeguard confidential information.- Directs an ongoing, proactive risk assessment program for new and existing systems.
- Initiate complex research and analysis activities necessary to determine information

technology (IT) security requirements. Prepare and present comprehensive reports,
memos, briefing notes and other documents incorporating research and feedback.

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- Develop, promote and implement security awareness training programmes for IBA staff
- and stakeholders and assess their effectiveness.- Investigate major breaches of security, and recommend appropriate control

improvements, and contribute to development of information security policy, standards
and guidelines.
- Ensure security vulnerabilities are managed by directing periodic vulnerability scans,

tests & assessments and integrating appropriate security tool sets, services and
improvement activities.

**Required capabilities**

These are essential unless otherwise indicated.

**Knowledge and experience**
- Sound knowledge of and experience in ensuring compliance with the Protective

Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and Australian Government Information Security
Manual (ISM).
- Demonstrated experience and ability to work across a broad range of ICT systems and

technology platforms.

modern ICT environment.
- Experience in disaster recovery and business continuity planning to prevent, plan for

and respond to system catastrophes or cyber incidents.
- Experience in developing, implementing, managing and maintaining ICT infrastructure

including server and network configuration, identity, PAM, SIEM, security, cloud
services, connectivity, and backup.
- Proven experience to communicate with influence, negotiate outcomes and manage

complex stakeholder relations.
**Skills and attributes**
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing the development and delivery of

information security in a multi-disciplinary government organisation.
- Demonstrated experience in the selection, design, justification, implementation and

operation of controls and management strategies to maintain the security,
confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and relevant compliance of
information systems with legislation, regulations and relevant standards.
- Strong Logic, correlation, analytical, and communication skills, verbally and written.
- Ability to prioritise tasks, give a high level of attention to detail, and successfully
- interface with all facets of the organisation.- Broad experience in the provision of complex advice and management of security

strategies to mitigate identified risks and ensure adoption and adherence to standards.

**Prerequisite requirements**
- Relevant cer



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