Cyber Security

Cyber Security - Level 5-6

**Salary**: $101,169 - $129,063 plus superannuation

**ABOUT** **US**

ASIS is Australia’s overseas secret intelligence collection agency. Its mission is to protect and promote
Australia’s vital interests through the provision of intelligence services as directed by the Government.
Its work can involve collecting intelligence relating to national security, international relations and
economic issues. It also contributes to Australia’s coordinated national efforts against terrorism,
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and trans-national issues such as people smuggling.

ASIS is a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people are empowered through authenticity and
a sense of belonging to achieve their potential and contribute to a shared purpose and mission. We
Islander peoples, women, people with a disability, neurodiverse, people from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds and those who identify as LGBTIQA+.

**WHAT WE OFFER**
- A competitive salary
- A career with a difference making a direct contribution to Australia’s national security
- A unique working environment where the work is stimulating and our people matter
- Ongoing training and personal development opportunities
- Ongoing employment with opportunity for part-time or flexible work hours
- Generous leave provisions
- This position is based in Canberra. The role will feature domestic and international travel.

**Role**

Operating within Security Branch, Cyber Security Directorate monitors, enables, and advises on the
cyber security of the myriad technologies that underpin ASIS’s business and operations. Cyber Security
is multi-disciplinary team that consists of three key work streams - Operations, Engineering, and
Assurance - that provide the following services:

- **Operations**
- Develop, monitor, and triage security logs and alerts;
- Coordinate delivery of the Service’s cyber security incident response activities; and
- Undertake threat hunts to proactively identify anomalous network activity.
- **Engineering**
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify and address cyber security capability

gaps;
- Plan and manage the development of current and future cyber security capabilities;
- Maintain cyber security capabilities as exemplars of effective and secure system

design, in a high-security environment.
- **Assurance**
- Assess and report on the cyber security risk posture of ASIS’s systems;
- Provide security architecture advice to ASIS’s projects and system managers; and
- Develop and deliver cyber security awareness campaigns to ASIS staff.

Please ensure you identify the specific role(s) you would like to be considered for when submitting

**Roles**

**Analyst - Cyber Security Operations**

You will be a member of the Operations team, responsible for the cyber security monitoring of ASIS’s

systems, and coordination of the Service’s cyber incident response activities. You will support the

delivery and day-to-day use of cyber security use cases, to enable the detection of key threats to the

Service. In the event of an incident, you will support the delivery of Service’s cyber security incident

response activities. You will also support cyber security threat hunt activities to proactively identify

potential threats to ASIS’s systems.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Familiarity with risk management.
- A working understanding of the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), Information

Security Manual (ISM), and Essential Eight (E8).
- Experience within at least one technology domain (e.g. infrastructure, virtualisation,

databases, software development, data analytics, machine learning, etc.).
- A desire to refine and expand your technical knowledge and skills in a cyber security context,

including, but not limited to: SIEM and Data Analytics platforms, query/coding languages

such as SQL, SPL, Java, Python and/or PowerShell, and digital forensics.

**Engineer - Cyber Security Engineer**

You will be a member of the Engineering team. You will support the development and maintence of

technical capabilities that directly support the broader team’s services. You will contribute to the

execution of ASIS’s Cyber Security Capability Roadmap by: researching, developing and integrating

new technical capabilities to ensure coverage and collection of valuable audit events, optimising the

sustainment of capabilities by automating routine tasks and processes, and supporting the secure

management of the team’s capabilities.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- Familiarity with risk management.
- A working understanding of the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), Information

Security Manual (ISM), and Essential Eight (E8).
- Experience within at least one technology domain (e.g. infrastructure, virtualisation,

databases, software development, data analytics, machine learning, etc.).
- A desire to refine and