Senior Security Systems Engineer
3 days ago
PERSOL brings together the legacy and experience of four organisations that shaped the staffing landscape over the past century: Kelly Services, who pioneered the modern temporary help industry in 1946; SKILLED, who crafted the staffing industry in Australia in 1964; Programmed, the leading provider of operations and maintenance services across Australia and New Zealand; and PERSOL, the largest workforce solutions provider in APAC.
Job details
Our IT Consulting client is now partnering with Defence agency to look for multiple NV1 & NV2 Security Systems Engineers - Contract role (12 months + 2 x 12 months extension option)
Location: Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
The Security Systems Engineer will be a highly organised, dynamic, outcome-oriented individual with excellent communication skills. They contribute specialist technical and cyber skills, acting as a subject matter expert (SME) to Government entities.
Key duties and responsibilities
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 ASD's Information Security Manual (ISM), Essential Eight, or other industry cyber security standards.
Skillsets
- 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
- Ability to work independently and effectively in hybrid or remote teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce technical documentation, reports, presentations, and senior executive briefings.
- Ability to provide direction to others regarding the purpose and importance of their work.
- Ability to illustrate the relationship between operational tasks and organisational goals to others.
- Sets work tasks for others that align with the strategic objectives and communicates expected outcomes.
If you meet these requirements, please apply now or for a confidential discussion please call Athena Yung on or reach out
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