Security Engineer

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia NCS Australia Full time

Company Description

About us:

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

Job Description

The Security Engineer - Cyber Security supports the technical implementation of NCS AU’s Security strategy and initiatives and has significant technical knowledge and a deep understanding of the wide range of security technologies used to oversee the security posture of NCS AU and our customers. The role is highly operational with daily activities as part of the role in addition to management of the security team on a BAU basis. The role works with the Security team members and corporate IT to ensure that the security controls implemented within the organisation are effective and in place.

Change is to be expected within this role as the NCS business integrates and grows within Australia and the security threat landscape shifts around us. This role needs to be hands on assisting with those changes and the development of solutions, artefacts and implementations. As change occurs this role will manage the capacity of the team to deal with the new activities and BAU driving efficient working practices and automation of common tasks.

Key Responsibilities: 

General:

  • Participation in all team operational responsibilities, such as rotational on-call incident response, security event triage and investigations.

Consulting:

  • Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness of operational security using automation, data analysis and implementation enhancements.
  • Partners with the business and technology teams to ensure security issue remediation efforts are prioritised correctly and highly effective.
  • Provides security consulting/advice to business projects.

Project Management:

  • Technical ownership of security technologies deployed within NCS AU and responsible for the overall health & operational availability.
  • Evaluates emerging security products/technologies for use within NCS AU, running proof-of-concepts for long-term consideration.

Risk Management:

  • Uses industry best practice and a strong awareness of current and emerging threats to evaluate the NCS AU technical environments for opportunities for improvements and risk mitigation.
  • Will clearly be trustworthy, reliable, conscientious and demonstrate high level of integrity and can remain calm, focused, methodical, and unflustered even the pressure levels are at their highest.
  • Has a strong understanding of the tactics that cybercriminals use and how best to combat them.
  • Uses multiple sources of data/information for threat hunting activities and security investigations.
  • Obtain and maintain relevant security certifications.

Qualifications

  • Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Cyber Security or a similar field.
  • At least 5 years’ experience as a security engineer working with customers or within a mid-large organisation.
  • Strong background working with a wide range of security technologies such as Splunk, WAF, Crowdstrike, TrendMicro, Vulnerability Scanning etc.
  • Experience across a broad range of technology streams including infrastructure, applications, private and public clouds.
  • Good communicator, capable of explaining technical concepts to various audiences with differing levels of technical understandings.
  • Strong understanding of public cloud security offerings and capabilities and experienced in securing such environments.
  • Strong SPL skills to performing incident triage and investigation and writing alerts and dashboards to achieve security outcomes.
  • Programming skills (Ruby, PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, Wireshark, etc) and the ability to leverage those to solve complex problems or automate mundane tasks.
  • AWS or Azure technical design expertise and hands on capability to build solutions.
  • Confidence to provide input into discussions and progress solutions, whilst not necessarily being an expert in the subject matter
  • High-level problem-solving to support addressing complex security challenges
  • Capacity to organize and prioritize tasks effectively
  • Results-driven and tenacious, with the ability to achieve outcomes even under tough circumstances
  • Collaborative mindset to facilitate open knowledge sharing between teams
  • Independent work ethic to identify organisation gaps and opportunities with knowledge systems
  • Collaborates and contributes to a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organisation achieve its objective
  • Certifications such as CISSP, GSEC, CEH or CISM desired.

Additional Information

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. To discuss adjustment requirements, please email recruitment@au.ncs-i.com.

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks

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