Lead ICT Security Specialists

6 hours ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia IT Alliance Australia Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

One of our
Federal Government Clients
is seeking to engage a
Lead ICT Security Specialists - EL1.
This is a long-term contractual position.

Please check below all the job details:

  1. Contract Duration:
    03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
  2. Work Location:
    Canberra and Melbourne (Hybrid – 03 Days Office / 02 Days home each week)
  3. Eligibility:
    Must need to have either
    NV1 or NV2 Security Clearance
    or above.
  4. Tentative Start Date:
    30th March 2026

Position Description:

The ICT Security Specialist will enable assessments of High Side environments within critical agencies while providing continuous assessments to other critical government agencies.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Department requires an EL1 equivalent ICT Security Specialist to undertake technical assessments and execute tools simulating well-known adversary tradecraft, identifying weaknesses in common technologies.

  • Assess Australian Government entities to determine the effectiveness of both prevention and detection security controls.
  • Execute tools to simulate well known adversary tradecraft to perform privilege escalation and lateral movement.
  • Identify weaknesses in common Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory.
  • Assess and identify vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs.
  • Development and automation of custom tools.

Essential Criteria:

  • Demonstrated minimum of 5 years' experience in infrastructure and/or web application penetration testing.
  • Demonstrated experience with assessing environments and systems against the Australian Government's Information Security Manual.
  • Demonstrated experience in assessing and exploiting common vulnerabilities found in enterprise networks and infrastructure (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD).
  • Demonstrated experience in assessing, identifying and exploiting known and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10) in web applications and supporting infrastructure.

Desirable Criteria:

  • Possesses professional certifications such as OSCP, GPEN, OSWA, GWAPT, OSWE, OSCE.
  • Demonstrated experience with scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Javascript etc).
  • Demonstrated experience in developing security tools across varying system architectures; exposure to testing enclaved networks and classified systems.
  • Demonstrated practical knowledge of web application penetration testing, including fuzzing, scripting, and application logic exploitation.

The Next step is easy:
If you are interested, you may send an email to

Referral incentive program:
As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get
$1000
for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates.

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