Cyber Readiness & Threat Intelligence Specialist

Transport for NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a hands-on cyber security professional to lead readiness, resilience, and threat intelligence initiatives within a large, critical infrastructure environment. You will run cyber readiness exercises, maintain playbooks and registers, monitor OSINT feeds, and coordinate across technical teams, incident responders, and leadership to strengthen preparedness and response.

This hybrid role requires NV1 clearance and offers the chance to influence security outcomes across

Qualifications

• Hands-on cyber security professional with foundational experience in cyber readiness, incident response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence.
• Comfortable working directly across tools and supporting real-world readiness and resilience uplift activities within complex environments.
• Enjoy collaborating across technical teams, incident responders, and leadership, to improve cyber preparedness and response.

Responsibilities

• Be hands-on across cyber readiness and resilience activities, supporting exercises and vulnerability uplift coordination.
• Conduct and support cyber readiness exercises, maintain playbooks and registers, and integrate threat intelligence into planning.
• Work directly with cyber tools and OSINT aggregation platforms to monitor, analyse, and correlate open-source threat intelligence from advisories, forums, and public data sources.
• Contribution to readiness metrics, dashboards, and continuous improvement initiatives with tangible outcomes.

Skills

Cyber security

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cyber readiness

Tools

OSINT platforms

Job description

Transport for NSW is seeking a hands-on cyber security professional to lead readiness, resilience, and threat intelligence initiatives within a large, critical infrastructure environment. You will run cyber readiness exercises, maintain playbooks and registers, monitor OSINT feeds, and coordinate across technical teams, incident responders, and leadership to strengthen preparedness and response.

This hybrid role requires NV1 clearance and offers the chance to influence security outcomes across