ISMS Lead: ISO 27001, Risk & Audit

Luxury Escapes; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% travel discount

Breakfast and lunch provided 5 days a週

Health and well-being programs

Annual Hackathons

Half-day birthday leave

Collaborative team

Job summary

Luxury Escapes in Sydney is seeking a driven information security leader to own the ISMS and certification programme. You’ll coordinate risk, assurance, audits and controls across business systems, vendors and third parties, while reporting to governance councils.

You’ll collaborate with executives, Engineering, IT, and our Data Protection Officer to raise security maturity. The role requires hands-on ownership, strong stakeholder management, and delivering continuous improvement in ISO27001,

Qualifications

• Experience running a management system or assurance programme, including evidence and auditor engagement.
• Practical information security risk management skills and the ability to build clear ownership across teams.
• Working knowledge of PCI DSS and GDPR or comparable privacy obligations.
• Experience with third-party security risk and customer assurance requests.
• Strong planning, stakeholder management and communication skills, with sound judgement on proportionate controls.
• CISM, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification.
• Experience in e-commerce, travel, payments or another high-volume consumer environment.
• Familiarity with AWS, cloud security, SOC 2, AI governance or ISO 42001.
• Working knowledge of security tools and reports, such as EDR, vulnerability management, firewalls, SIEM, Microsoft Entra ID or SaaS access management.
• Experience working across jurisdictions and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the ISMS scope, Statement of Applicability, policies and supporting evidence.
• Support the Stage 1 and Stage 2 ISO 27001 audits; coordinate internal and external audits, findings and corrective actions.
• Lead management reviews and report ISMS performance to the ISMS Governance Council.
• Own the risk method, register and treatment tracking, and facilitate assessments with risk owners.
• Coordinate recurring assurance, including access reviews, control testing, evidence collection and penetration tests.
• Monitor control performance and communicate key exposures, findings and remediation progress.
• Coordinate security and privacy assessments for business systems; maintain the systems inventory.
• Manage vendor and sub-processor security assessments, including onboarding and periodic reviews.
• Support ISO 27001, PCI DSS and privacy compliance, working with the Data Protection Officer on specialist advice.
• Track emerging obligations, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, and drive improvements to controls and processes.
• Maintain the incident response plan, coordinate incidents and track follow-up actions.
• Run security awareness and training, and respond to customer questionnaires and due diligence requests.
• Coordinate security projects across teams to keep actions on track.

Skills

ISMS management

Risk management

PCI DSS / GDPR

Third-party security

Stakeholder comms

CISM / CISSP

E-commerce travel

Cloud security

Security tools

Distributed teams

Tools

EDR

Vulnerability management

Firewalls

SIEM

Microsoft Entra ID

SaaS access management

Job description

Luxury Escapes in Sydney is seeking a driven information security leader to own the ISMS and certification programme. You’ll coordinate risk, assurance, audits and controls across business systems, vendors and third parties, while reporting to governance councils.

You’ll collaborate with executives, Engineering, IT, and our Data Protection Officer to raise security maturity. The role requires hands-on ownership, strong stakeholder management, and delivering continuous improvement in ISO27001,