Senior Cyber Security Architect

8 hours ago

Canberra n Capital Territory, Australia Acolade Consulting Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Job: - Senior Cyber Security Architect - (Must Have NV1 Clearance)

Duration: - 6 Months (Possible Extension)

Location: - Canberra (Onsite)

We are looking for an
experienced Sr. Cyber Security Architect
for one of the government organisations for a long-term contract.

Required Skills

  • Experience in
    conducting security assessments on infrastructure, network, application designs.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience in
    Cyber Security Strategy design, development and implementation
    .
  • Experience in
    providing security consulting to large and complex projects
    with the ability to engage with vendors and review vendor proposals.
  • Experience in
    performing regular security reviews and compliance testing
    to ensure adherence to adopted security standards.
  • Experience in
    preparing and coordinating strategic advice, research, information and reports
    on diverse and complex policy, planning and operational matters to ensure the appropriate analysis of issues to support executive decision making.
  • Experience
    assessing and implementing security & risk standards
    (e.g.,
    ISO 27001/2, PCI-DSS, Cloud Security, ISO 31000 etc
    ).
  • Strong knowledge on the
    ITIL Service Management Framework
    and its practical execution within IT projects.
  • Strong knowledge on
    PMP and/or PRINCE2 Project Management Frameworks
    and their practical execution within IT projects.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with stakeholders throughout the Department to understand their requirements and build tailored security requirements that vendors must satisfy.
  • Conduct vendor risk assessments by reviewing, interpreting and responding to detailed vendor responses to security requirement specifications to ensure alignment between vendor security controls and the Departments security requirements.
  • Engage with Solution Architects to build appropriate security requirements that would need to be injected into new or modified solution designs.
  • Review High Level Solution Architecture Design documents that are presented and provide endorsement to these once all security requirements have been satisfied.
  • Collaborate with all project, program, IDS and vendor stakeholders to ensure that security risks are documented, acknowledged and where necessary remediated prior to formal vendor engagement or solution development/implementation.
  • Assess new operational risks against current security and technology controls to determine risk rating and also work with the risk owner to ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are developed.
  • Work within the Security Architecture Team to refresh the IDS Cyber Security Strategy.

Visa Status and Security Clearance.

  • Candidates must be an
    Australian Citizenship
  • Candidates must have
    NV1 Security Clearance.

Special Conditions

  • Candidates must have
    completed all the doses of the COVID Vaccination
    .

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