Cyber Technical Specialist - Readiness

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

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.

Please view the role description and Information Pack for more information.

About you

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.

Flexible work optionsmay be available. Learn more viaFlexible work options and policy

For more information about this role, please contact ***********@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

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