Chief of Cyber Operations DDS&S

3 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia Leidos Full time

Company Description

At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. We’re robust and ambitious, and we empower our people to do their best work. You’ll feel inspired by what you can achieve and will be supported by an inclusive and flexible culture that genuinely cares for your wellbeing. Together, we can be the difference.

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

  • Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life. By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year.
  • Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations.
  • Cross training in a range of cyber security tools such as SIEMs, firewalls, proxies, sandboxes, mail gateways, DLP and NAC’s;
  • Leidos Life Hub provides access to discount offers or cashback rewards with over 400 Australian and International retailers

Job Description

Your New Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to perform crucial, high value work to support and protect our personnel in the Australian Defence Forces.  We have a team of Cyber staff looking for a leader to inspire, motivate and support them in their mission. You will provide oversight and management of the SOC including security operations management and incident response, incident detection and analysis, and containment and eradication of cybersecurity incidents and data spills.

The role requires a very clear communicator to encourage and grow the SOC team to ensure we are supporting our customer in their mission.

Qualifications

About You and What You'll Bring

This role is focused on the delivery of SOC services including:

  • Ensuring the team is engaged and productive
  • Providing leadership and mentoring to the team
  • Working closely with the customer in a collaborative fashion
  • Ensuring services are delivered appropriately
  • Continuous improvement of services through people process and technology

You will need to have most of the following:

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience in maturing an environment that is complex
  • Experience in a leadership role
  • Understanding of the contemporary Cybersecurity environment
  • Demonstrable experience mentoring and developing a junior team
  • Have an operational cybersecurity or infrastructure background
  • Demonstrable experience with Incident Response and Cyber Operations
  • Ability to perform information security assessments or audits of networks and systems

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an NV-2 security clearance. If you have an active NV-1 and can upgrade you will also be considered. This role can only be performed on-site in Canberra.

The successful candidate may need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements applicable to this role, and your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role.   

At Leidos, we are passionate about our mission to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient. If you are too, then join us and Be the difference.

Additional Information

What You'll Love

We’re a certified Family Friendly Workplace. We respect the caring responsibilities and needs of our people who needs to care for loved ones; it’s a mindset – not a policy. When you grow, we grow. Be it through our exciting pipeline line of projects or by partnering with a People Leader who will guide, mentor and support you.

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how:

  • We work with the Australian Department of Defence to design and operate the cyber security tools used across the Army, Navy and Airforce
  • We have consolidated 280 data centres into 12 domestic and three international sites, creating a new Centralised Processing environment of the Australian Department of Defence.
  • We’re building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.



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