Manager, Information Security

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About Us

SBS is one of the world's most unique and innovative media organisations, producing trusted, meaningful, and engaging content that exists for all Australians to inspire, support and celebrate the diversity of our multicultural society.

Our purpose, for the last 50 years, has reflected and explored the evolving diversity of Australia, investing in initiatives to deepen its connections with communities, sharing their stories and giving a voice to those often unheard, with the aim of increasing understanding and respect of the differences that make up Australia.

SBS is a truly distinctive network, showcasing multicultural, multilingual and First Nations stories otherwise untold in the Australian media.

The Role

The Manager, Information Security is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing the broader Cyber Security posture for SBS. This includes continuous development, execution and refinement of the Cyber Security strategy, establishment and operation of the technology capabilities protecting the organisation. Specifically, ensuring that SBS complies with industry regulations and frameworks e.g., ASD Essential 8, NIST and ISO27001 and managing internal / external audit and governance requirements.

The role directs staff in identifying, developing, implementing and maintaining processes across the business to minimise security risks as well as responding to incidents and establishing appropriate policies, standards, and controls. The role also oversees security operations for incident response and monitoring/addressing cyber incidents as well as security awareness training within the organisation.

Working with all parts of the business, it would provide you with deep insight into the inner workings of SBS and provide advice and guidance in security best practices. You will be a critical part of the Strategy and Architecture team, interacting closely with all parts of the technology team to support the needs of SBS. Some of the key responsibilities are:

- Managing the daily operation and implementation of the Technology security strategy
- Maintaining a current understanding the security threat landscape, compliance and regulatory obligations
- Creating, implementing and operating a strategy for the deployment of information security technologies, policies and practices
- Direct and approve the design of security systems
- Draft, review and approve security policies and controls and ensure communication to all personnel and that compliance is enforced
- Enhance cloud security strategies for AWS, Office 365 and EntraID, embedding security within CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments
- Brief the executive team on status and risks, including taking the role of champion for the overall strategy and budget requirements
- Oversee the third-party cyber risk program e.g., conducting vendor assessments to ensure compliance with SBS’s security policies and regulatory expectations
- Delivering new security technology approaches and implementing next generation solutions
- Manage and reporting of security KPI’s and the tools e.g., ASD Essential 8 maturity, dwell time reduction, phishing simulation results and incident response effectiveness
- Lead the continuous enhancement of SBS’s SIEM, ensuring optimal threat visibility, detection engineering and incident response capabilities
- Running security audits and risk assessments and ensuring all actions are complete in the agreed timeframes
- Oversee red team engagements and purple team exercises to continuously test and improve SBS’s cyber resilience
- Cyber incident response planning and overseeing/performing investigation of reported security breaches
- Security awareness training to for all personnel and compliance enforcement
- Managing security employees and third parties involved in IT security
- Report to Board/Audit and Risk committee on cyber security and managing risk treatment plans.
- Collaborate and provide Subject Matter Expertise to Privacy, Risk, Information Governance and Legal

For more details, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Some of the reasons to consider working with us:

- The people We truly celebrate and welcome difference at SBS and encourage everyone to bring their whole self to work & you’ll be part of one of the most inclusive companies in Australia
- The culture and the engagement of our workforce 93% of our employees have stated that they are proud to work for SBS
- We offer a range of benefits from, health care checks, salary packaging, Employee Assistance Programme, flexible work arrangements and discounted gym membership nationally with Fitness Pass.
- We’re agile and innovative in the way we work, as well as being a trusted and established brand. At SBS we have been broadcasting