Senior Security Systems Engineer

5 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia IT Alliance Australia Full time

One of our
Federal Government Clients
is seeking to engage a
Senior Security Systems Engineer - EL1.

Please check below all the job details:

  1. Contract Duration:
    03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
  2. Work Location:
    Only in
    Canberra, Melbourn and Sydney
  3. Eligibility:
    You must need to have
    NV2 Security Clearance
    or above.
  4. Tentative Start Date:
    04th May 2026

Position Description:

Department requires an EL 1 equivalent Security Systems Engineer to fill positions with Government Uplift's Cyber Security Remediation Program (CURP). Systems Engineers are subject matter experts required to provide advice, design, implement, and remediate security controls across a suite of technologies for multiple external Australian Government entities, ranging across a number of systems.

The Security Systems Engineer will perform the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Work across multiple external Australian Government entities to deliver advice and implement security controls, enhancing the security posture of systems from Official to Top Secret.
  • Develop documentation for security engineering and administrative tasks (e.g. SOPs, Request for Change, design documentation, as-built-as-configured, etc.).
  • Facilitate and participate in workshops focused on security engineering design and remediation activities.
  • Develop and test prototype security configurations to inform the development of advice and guidance.
  • Implement security controls in accordance with Department's Information Security Manual (ISM), Essential Eight, or other industry cyber security standards.

Essential criteria

Minimum 7 years experience as a Systems Engineer. Demonstrating experience, providing advice, designing, implementing, and remediating one or more of the following:


• Microsoft Active Directory


• Networking, Gateway or Software-Defined Networking


• Cross Domain Solutions and/or Diodes


• Sentinel or Splunk


• Enterprise Linux, Unix, or Similar environments, such as RHEL


• Cloud environments, such as SaaS, PaaS, or laaS on Azure, AWS, GPC, or similar


• Complex Windows Enterprise Environments

  1. Ability to work independently and effectively in hybrid or remote teams.
  2. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce technical documentation, reports, presentations, and senior executive briefings.
  3. Ability to provide direction to others regarding the purpose and importance of their work.
  4. Ability to illustrate the relationship between operational tasks and organisational goals to others.
  5. Sets work tasks for others that align with the strategic objectives and communicates expected outcomes.
  6. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, or equivalent industry training and/or certification.
  7. Experience in identifying, implementing and/or applying security controls.

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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