Lead Cybersecurity Analyst

**Lead Cybersecurity Analyst**:
**Position Number**:0060487
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**: Full-time; Continuing
**Department**:Cybersecurity
- **Lead cutting-edge cybersecurity operations / Drive operational excellence and innovation / Mentor and develop top talent**:

- ** to spearhead our cybersecurity efforts and shape the future of our digital defence**:

- **Investing in you - benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.**

**The University of Melbourne**
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**Your next career opportunity**
As the Lead Cybersecurity Analyst, you'll manage our hybrid Cybersecurity Operations Centre, ensuring swift and thorough threat detection, response, and escalation. You'll leverage your technical expertise to enhance our security processes, mentor a team of analysts, and collaborate across the University to strengthen our cybersecurity posture. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact on our digital security landscape whilst developing your leadership skills in a dynamic, supportive environment.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- **Lead Operational Excellence**: Oversee day-to-day CSOC operations, ensuring thorough and timely execution of all detection, response, and escalation processes
- **Drive Process Improvement**: Identify and implement enhancements to detection and response playbooks, leveraging your expertise to optimise security procedures
- **Manage Critical Incidents**: Rapidly assess, handle, and escalate critical cybersecurity issues, ensuring prompt resolution and minimising potential impacts
- **Mentor and Develop Talent**: Guide and train CSOC analysts, fostering a culture of continuous learning and cross-skilling to enhance team capabilities
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, representing the CSOC with authority and professionalism

**You may be a great fit if**:
You are a highly technical cybersecurity professional with strong leadership skills, exceptional organisational abilities, and the capacity to balance multiple priorities whilst driving operational excellence and fostering team development.

**You may also**:

- Possess extensive experience in SIEM, EDR, NDR, and other security tooling
- Have a proven track record of leading and mentoring cybersecurity teams
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excel at stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration
- Be adept at analysing complex security events and correlating data from multiple sources
- Thrive in fast-paced environments, handling critical incidents with urgency and precision

For further information please refer to the attached PD.

**What we offer you**
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits to support your success and sense of fulfillment, including:

- Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well-being
- Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work-life balance
- Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance
- Health and well-being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program
- Comprehensive career development and training, plus a 25% discount on UniMelb graduate courses for your immediate family members

For more information check out our benefits page

**Your new team - Cybersecurity**
Are you ready for the challenge of defending a vast and complex environment? If so, join a team of passionate, skilled, and eager-to-learn cyber professionals dedicated to investigating and uncovering root causes.

From microscopes and gaming PCs to petabytes of research storage, we protect it all—leveraging best-of-breed tooling, threat intelligence, and a diverse technology stack to detect and respond to cyber threats with speed and precision.

**Be Yourself**
The University of Melbourne is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a child-safe organisation. We are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where all individuals feel valued, respected, and have the opportunity to thrive regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, being a parent or having caring responsibilities.

**Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants**
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians, with unprecedented investment to attract, nurture and retain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. Tangible support through a range of programs and initiatives will ensure that you personally succeed and flourish while at the University of Melbourne.