Cyber Security Specialist

2 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia People's Choice Full time

About the Role

In this critical position at People's Choice, you will provide rapid response and containment capabilities to address critical cyber incidents, protecting the interests of our organization and its members from compromised data or services. You will play a distinct cybersecurity role by combining proactive threat hunting with reactive incident management, remaining informed on global trends and threats to apply relevant context for our attack surface.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the suite of technical playbooks to ensure they align with the risk scenarios of our organization.
  • Manage our incident response tabletop exercise calendar of events to ensure we are match fit and ready for any scenario posed.
  • Identify threats and vulnerabilities associated with our information assets.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop, implement, and maintain strong security policies, procedures, and capabilities.
  • Detect threats and anomalies by monitoring, investigating, researching alerts, and assessing intelligence to trigger the response process.
  • Triage security events, respond promptly to contain and mitigate threats, minimizing the impact to information assets.
  • Role model security practices and be an evangelist for security and risk management practices.
  • Technically mentor, guide, and support other members of the cybersecurity team.
  • Lead proactive intelligence-led threat hunting efforts to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, leveraging internal and vendor-provided information and threat hunting capabilities.
  • Lead Incident Response activities by taking immediate action to contain the impact of a cyber incident.
  • Provide high-level oversight and guidance to Incident Response personnel, either internal or via MDR vendor/s, ensuring effective response to security events and incidents.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call roster via rotation basis.

About You

You are a self-motivated, driven, and well-experienced Cyber Security professional who thrives in managing challenging priorities in a fast-moving environment. Additionally, we seek:

  • Solid experience within Cyber Security or Information Technology domains with some experience maintaining enterprise cyber technologies/platforms such as CrowdStrike, Qualys, Microsoft Defender, Okta, Splunk, Delinea.
  • Knowledge and experience with frameworks such as: MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, Cyber Kill Chain.
  • Experience with SIEMs, Microsoft Azure/Defender, Vulnerability Management Tooling, Sophisticated EDR/XDR Technologies, Threat Intelligence Sources and Services.
  • Knowledge and experience with Threat Intelligence and Incident Response lifecycles and governing frameworks.
  • Experience analyzing, gathering intelligence on, and reporting on threat actors, security incidents, and global cyber threat trends.
  • Proven proficiency in business writing with a demonstrated ability to articulate sophisticated cyber threats to non-technical parties.
  • Experience managing and responding to cyber incidents; establishment of war rooms, articulation of severity (risk and impact), effective communication with stakeholders, authoring and socializing incident response briefing documents.

What We Offer

We believe the little extras can make a big difference in supporting your success. That's why we offer great incentives and benefits, including:

  • Extensive range of financial and lifestyle benefits, including (but not limited to):
  • paid parental leave and special leave provisions.
  • Flexibility and hybrid working arrangements.
  • Employee banking benefits and discounted insurances.
  • Career development opportunities, and ongoing training, coaching, and support.
  • A dedicated Employee Assistance Program for you and your family to access in times of need.
  • paid volunteering days and access to a diverse range of community and charitable initiatives.


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