Senior Cybersecurity Consultant

Datacom
Summary
Join Datacom, ANZ’s largest cybersecurity and connectivity services company, as a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant. You will be a trusted advisor to Datacom’s customers and internal stakeholders, providing expert guidance and security solutions. Core responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams on security risks, leading and maintaining systems, influencing cybersecurity strategy, guiding security policy development, identifying security requirements for applications, advising management on security issues, and reviewing IT projects for cybersecurity compliance. This role requires advanced understanding of attacker tools and techniques, along with knowledge of networks, firewalls, and various security technologies. You will need 9+ years of IT experience with 5+ years specializing in cybersecurity and experience in an MSSP environment. Australian citizenship and NV1 clearance are required.
Requirements
- You will bring advanced understanding of tools, techniques, and procedures that modern attackers use to compromise organisations, along with knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies' concepts and technologies
- Knowledge of operating system command-line and system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
- Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
- Knowledge of organisational IT user security policies (e.g., account creation, password rules, access control)
- Knowledge of systems administration concepts
- Knowledge of measures or indicators of system performance and availability
- Familiarity with common threat intelligence frameworks and standards (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, STIX/TAXII)
- Familiarity and exposure to working on Intelligence platforms
- Specialist knowledge of Cybersecurity principles and practices
- Expert knowledge of information systems, operating systems, databases, and networking
- Knowledge of the outsourced IT services market and infrastructure project requirements
- Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents (like ACSC Essential 8)
- Knowledge of finance management practices with a clear understanding of the relationship between costs, utilisation, and project revenue
- At least 9+ years’ experience in IT with 5+ years’ experience specialising in Cybersecurity
- Experience in a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) environment
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with cross functional teams to ensure a shared understanding of security risks and propose fit for purpose mitigations
- Being responsible for leading and maintaining systems and specific components of systems, providing specialist technical expertise in multi-platform IT environments, and performing analytical assignments as required by project management
- Influencing the Cybersecurity strategy and processes of the organisation's information systems and networks
- Guide the development of security policies, procedures, and standards
- Identifying security requirements for new applications and other software products
- Advising management on security issues, including legislation and adoption of new security technologies
- Reviewing new and existing Information Technology projects for compliance to Cybersecurity architecture by developing, documenting, and communicating strategies and standards
Preferred Qualifications
Skills in Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Suite are highly desirable, as are other Security Technologies such as CrowdStrike, Azure, Check Point, Palo Alto, and Fortinet
Benefits
- Remote working
- Flexi-hours
- Professional development courses