Strategic Cyber Security Architect, Canberra (Baseline Clearance)

Acolade Consulting; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Acolade Consulting seeks an experienced Senior Cyber Security Architect for a Canberra-based project with Baseline Clearance. The role is onsite for 6 months with possible extension, focusing on security architecture, risk assessment, and vendor engagement.

Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, conducting vendor risk assessments, and aligning security controls with departmental requirements while advancing security strategy and policy implementation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in Cyber Security Strategy design, development and implementation.
• Experience conducting security assessments on infrastructure, networks, and applications.
• Experience providing security consulting to large, complex projects with vendor engagement.
• Experience performing security reviews and compliance testing against security standards.
• Ability to prepare and coordinate strategic advice and reports for executive decision making.
• Experience assessing and implementing security & risk standards (ISO 27001/2, PCI-DSS, Cloud Security, ISO 31000).

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate into security requirements for vendors.
• Conduct vendor risk assessments and review vendor responses to align controls.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to inject security requirements into designs.
• Review High Level Solution Architecture Design documents and endorse them after security is satisfied.
• Work with project, program, IDS and vendor stakeholders to document and remediate security risks.
• Assess new operational risks against current controls and develop mitigation strategies.
• Refresh the IDS Cyber Security Strategy within the Security Architecture Team.

Skills

Security assessments

Cyber security strategy

Vendor risk assessments

Security reviews

Strategic reports

ISO 27001/2

ITIL

PM/PRINCE2

Job description

Acolade Consulting seeks an experienced Senior Cyber Security Architect for a Canberra-based project with Baseline Clearance. The role is onsite for 6 months with possible extension, focusing on security architecture, risk assessment, and vendor engagement.

Responsibilities include engaging stakeholders, conducting vendor risk assessments, and aligning security controls with departmental requirements while advancing security strategy and policy implementation.