Hybrid Senior Security & Compliance Analyst (12-Month Contract)

NSW Department of Customer Service; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 133,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Work-life balance

Wellbeing support

Inclusive culture

Leave entitlements

Job summary

NSW Department of Customer Service is seeking an experienced cyber security professional to join the ID Support team within Cyber Security NSW. This role focuses on threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management and security operations to protect government systems and sensitive information across NSW.

You'll work across cloud, infrastructure and application environments, collaborating with delivery, infrastructure and cyber security teams to strengthen security controls and

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role, you'll bring a combination of technical cyber security expertise, analytical thinking and a proactive approach to managing security risks.
• Tertiary qualifications in cyber security, information security, information technology or a related discipline are highly regarded.
• Equivalent industry experience will also be considered.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) security clearance.
• Successful completion of pre-employment screening requirements, including a National Police Check.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate and respond to cyber security alerts, incidents and suspicious activity across enterprise environments.
• Conduct technical investigations and support cyber incident response activities to minimise risk and improve resilience.
• Lead and coordinate vulnerability management activities, including risk assessment, remediation tracking and stakeholder reporting.
• Implement, monitor and validate operating system, application and infrastructure patching to maintain strong security posture.
• Maintain and optimise security monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities to support threat detection and response.
• Support the operation, integration and continuous improvement of security technologies across cloud, infrastructure and application environments.
• Contribute to the secure operation of cloud platforms, DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD environments and associated security tooling.
• Identify cyber security risks and vulnerabilities and provide practical recommendations to strengthen security controls.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, technical documentation and security runbooks.
• Support internal and external audits, assurance activities and compliance assessments.
• Maintain evidence and reporting to demonstrate compliance with NSW Government and agency cyber security obligations.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, vendors and service providers to drive positive security outcomes and remediation activities.

Skills

Cyber security operations

Threat detection

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Cloud security

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Cyber security degree

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

SIEM

Azure Security

DevSecOps tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

NSW Department of Customer Service is seeking an experienced cyber security professional to join the ID Support team within Cyber Security NSW. This role focuses on threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management and security operations to protect government systems and sensitive information across NSW.

You'll work across cloud, infrastructure and application environments, collaborating with delivery, infrastructure and cyber security teams to strengthen security controls and