Cyber Operations

2 days ago


Canberra, Australia HiTech Personnel Full time

**Reference #**:

- JF/JA0855**Title**:

- Cyber operations - Federal Govt**Category**:

- ICT**Location**:

- ACT**Work Type**:

- Contract**Remuneration**:

- $Neg**Term**:

- 6 months**Description**:

- **Join a leading Federal Government Department with essential cyber projects**:

- **Contract opportunity for 6 months with possible extension**:

- **Flexible working arrangements**

One of Australia’s prominent **Federal Government Departments** is looking to engage an experienced **Security Operations Advisor / SOC Engineer** to undertake technical cyber security activities and develop people, processes and tools for the protection of the departments systems, users and data. The **Security Operations Advisor / SOC Engineer** will be offered an initial **6 month contract with the possibility for extension and receive lucrative hourly rates**.

The successful **Security Operations Advisor / SOC Engineer** will be responsible for, but not limited to:

- Leading initiatives to develop proactive monitoring, investigation capabilities, and mitigation of security incidents with enterprise and in-house security tools.
- Identifying and implementing significant programs of cyber security posture improvement, attack surface reduction, and capability uplift across a zero trust environment.
- Developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and implement incident response frameworks and processes from industry best practice
- Leading security testing, technical assurance, and red/purple team exercises and produce and disseminate incident response reports, activity reports, and intelligence and threat briefs

The successful **Security Operations Advisor / SOC Engineer** will have the following:

- Demonstrated experience with defensive cyber security tools (such as SIEM, SOAR, TIP, and DLP).
- Knowledge of the Information Security Manual (ISM) and cyber security concepts.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and using Incident Response Frameworks (NIST SP 800- 61 Incident Handling Guide, Mitre Frameworks).
- Experience leading a cyber security operations team in a large enterprise or Australian Government organisation.



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