Cyber Technical Specialist

NSW Public Service Commission; Sydney; On-site; AUD 142,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW in Macquarie Park is seeking a Cyber Technical Specialist - Readiness to lead hands-on cyber readiness, resilience activities, and reporting. You will manage exercises, playbooks, and registers while strengthening our defence against threats.

This permanent full-time role requires NV1 clearance and provides exposure to threat intelligence, dashboards, and continuous improvement across our hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cyber readiness and resilience activities, supporting exercises and readiness reporting.
• Maintain playbooks, procedures, and registers; integrate threat intelligence into readiness planning.
• Work with cyber tools and OSINT platforms to monitor open-source threat intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Be hands‑on across cyber readiness and resilience activities, supporting cyber exercises, vulnerability uplift coordination, threat‑informed readiness preparation, and data collection for reporting.
• You will conduct and support cyber readiness exercises, maintain playbooks, procedures, and registers, and integrate threat intelligence into readiness planning to strengthen organisational preparedness.
• You will work directly with cyber tools and OSINT aggregation platforms to monitor, analyse, and correlate open‑source threat intelligence from security advisories, forums, and public data sources.

Job description

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Cyber Technical Specialist - Readiness

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location:
Macquarie Park, NSW, AU, 2113

Job reference number: 107929

Employment type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary range: $141678.0-$158677.0

You’re open to a change of direction and a new challenge.

You bring structure, mitigation and education to our organisation. Our records and datasets are vast and varied. This is your opportunity to safeguard critical infrastructure, order and protect sensitive data, and defend against emerging cyber threats. You'll be part of an expert team who protect against thousands of threats every day.

In this role, you'll:

Be hands‑on across cyber readiness and resilience activities, supporting cyber exercises, vulnerability uplift coordination, threat‑informed readiness preparation, and data collection for reporting.

You will conduct and support cyber readiness exercises, maintain playbooks, procedures, and registers, and integrate threat intelligence into readiness planning to strengthen organisational preparedness.

You will work directly with cyber tools and OSINT aggregation platforms to monitor, analyse, and correlate open‑source threat intelligence from security advisories, forums, and public data sources.

The role contributes to readiness metrics, dashboards, and continuous improvement initiatives, delivering visible and practical outcomes across a hybrid working model. NV1 clearance is required.

You are a hands‑on cyber security professional with foundational experience in cyber readiness, incident response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence.

You are comfortable working directly across tools and supporting real‑world readiness and resilience uplift activities within complex environments.

You enjoy collaborating across technical teams, incident responders, and leadership, and are motivated by seeing your work directly improve cyber preparedness and response.

With exposure to real threat intelligence and resilience activities, you bring a practical mindset and a strong interest in embedding cyber readiness across a large, critical infrastructure organisation.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

Applications close 11:59 PM Wednesday 7 October 2026

For more information about this role, please contact [e-mail].

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Transport acknowledges the Aboriginal people of the country on which we work, their traditions, culture and a shared history and identity. We also pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise the continued connection to country.