Lead, Cyber Delivery

Date: 7 Nov 2025

Location: Sydney, Australia

Company: Singtel Group

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband, and digital solutions.

As a Cyber Delivery Lead and play a crucial part in delivering our cybersecurity strategy at Optus. This role connects strategic vision with practical program implementation, guaranteeing smooth execution of cyber security projects.

What You'll Do | Your day to day will consist of

• Project Planning & Implementation: Strategise, guide, and coordinate all aspects of designated cyber initiatives and projects, ensuring compliance with established timelines, budgets, and outcomes.
• Governance & Reporting: Prepare delivery status updates, RAID logs, and health dashboards for Cyber LT Board, Portfolio Steering Committee, and related forums.
• Dependency & Risk Management: Recognise cross-program dependencies, handle risks and issues, and apply proactive mitigation and customer concern processes.
• Scope & Change Control: Manage project baselines and coordinate change control processes across cyber initiatives to maintain delivery integrity.
• Collaborator Engagement: Collaborate with business units, technology, and risk functions to align delivery outcomes with cyber objectives.
• Vendor & Supplier Management: Coordinate vendor delivery to ensure contractual and technical deliverables are met.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of delivery processes, templates, and metrics.
• Primary Blocking Issue Contact: Serve as the main contact for blocking issues related to delivery risks, problems, and dependencies within assigned domains.

What You Bring | What makes you perfect for the role?

• Qualifications: Tertiary qualification or equivalent in Business, IT, Engineering, or another aligned field.
• 3+ years' experience in Cyber security within complex technology programs by multiple delivery partners.
• 5-8 years' experience managing projects within the IT/Telecommunications or Financial Services sectors.
• Proven delivery management skills across IAM, EDR, or cloud security programs.
• Excellent communication and collaborator engagement skills.

The good stuff…. | What's in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym and on-site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected' days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever's important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus U's industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video.

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying 'yes' to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email or call We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

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