Lead Cyber Operations Analyst

**About Us**

At ViCyber, we have a mission to simplify cybersecurity for all businesses with an aim to uplift cyber health in our community. Our market leading cloud-native platform offers a platform first cyber health check accompanied with compliance and risk prediction capabilities that offer businesses cyber awareness and proactive mitigation. First of its kind, we assess a business’ cyber insurance liability and are globally market leading, backed by our industry and venture partners.

We are committed to be a top workplace, cultivating an inclusive, hybrid culture that offers people the flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while growing the career. Interested in working for a company that is a game changer, raises the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters, together.

**About the role**

We are building our team and actively recruiting across multiple roles and locations and are now looking for a skilled and dedicated Lead Cyber Operations Analyst to join our cybersecurity team in Sydney, Australia. As the Lead Cyber Operations Analyst, you will be responsible for the oversight and management of our growing team of Cyber Analysts both in person (Sydney) and remotely (Brisbane). Your Cyber Operations Analyst team is responsible for monitoring, analysing, and reporting on cyber assessments. This critical leadership role requires strong technical expertise, proven leadership experience, excellent problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.

**Key responsibilities**
- Conduct real-time threat analyses.
- Utilize security tools such as NESSUS, Qualys, Microsoft endpoint protection and penetration testing and analyse security threats.
- Help clients understand the severity of vulnerabilities in an easy-to-understand non-tech language and subsequently helping them prioritise remediation working closely with IT and network teams.
- The ability to lead a team and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement security controls, mitigation, and fixing vulnerabilities.
- Risk assessment and quantification to assess cyber risk posture using proprietary software.
- Perform excel modelling and analyses to conduct risk scoring and overall scoring across different cyber attributes.
- Conduct cyber compliance assessment of business practices against industry standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, Essential 8, Privacy Act and CPS 234
- Stay up to date with the latest cyber threats, Vulnerability management techniques, OWASP Top 10 and industry trends around newly identified threats or Zero Day Vulnerabilities
- Analyse and provide recommendations for improving the organisation's cybersecurity defences based on threat intelligence and analysis.
- Work with customer IT teams to run cyber scanning and assessment using proprietary platform and vendor tools.
- Work with central IT team to setup internal cyber security processes and policies

**Qualifications & experience**
- 1-5+ years’ post graduate experience in cybersecurity and technology delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, cybersecurity, or a related field; relevant certifications are a plus.
- Proficiency in conducting analysis and forensics using network traffic analysis, log analysis, and threat intelligence sources.
- Familiarity with industry standards such as NIST, PCIDSS, ISO 27001, Essential 8
- Ability to work nights and weekends during a crisis event, flexibility to work as per business requirements.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to work under pressure.
- MS excel modelling, PowerPoint, and Visio experience preferable.
- Ability to work independently with little guidance in a fast-paced time pressure environment.
- Results driven, action-oriented individual with time management and planning skills.
- Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams in different industries and countries.

**Salary**: $61,110.76 - $100,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Employee mentoring program
- Professional development assistance
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sydney, NSW: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: In person