Cyber Security Engineer

The opportunity
Our client is a government organisation in the south eastern suburbs. They have a great opportunity for Cyber Security Engineer with strong security operations experience to join the team in a senior hands-on role in daily security operations, while also contributing to project work and architecture.

• 6 months initial contract starting ASAP
• Daily rate range negotiable up to $1100 per day
• Hybrid work from home, minimum 2 days per week onsite

The role
As a Cyber Security Engineer, your role will be approximately 70% hands-on engineering and operations work, and 30% design and uplift. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• working on daily service tickets related to cyber security, and investigating alerts from the SOC / Defender inline with the security incident handling playbooks
• Improving efficiency of Sentinel operations and creating Sentinel automation playbooks
• Using tools to discover and assess vulnerabilities, developing responses to these, and progressively automating these to reduce manual effort
• Uplifting data loss prevention solutions to protect data on endpoints and mobile devices
• Designing and implementing security controls, and system hardening configurations on endpoints and servers
• Defining and delivering cyber security awareness activities
• Operationalizing deliverables from cyber security maturity enhancement projects
• Designing and implementing identity and access management solutions, including provisioning/deprovisioning, role-based controls, single-sign on, privileged access management etc.

About you
To be successful in this role you will need:

• Extensive experience at a senior level in Security engineering, operations, SOC/SIEM or similar
• Strong current experience using and administrating Defender suite, Sentinel and other Microsoft security products
• Experience in designing and implementing security solutions and controls, and improving and uplifting security posture
• Solid experience in Microsoft/Azure environments, and experience with other tools such as Active Directory, Entra, Purview, Intune, etc.
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Leadership capabilities, and the ability to guide and upskill other staff, and the ability to work independently would be ideal
• Be available to work onsite as required – minimum 2 days per week

Please note that if successful, you will need to undergo a police check, and hold a valid employee grade Working With Childrens Check (WWCC).

Apply:
Please submit your resume ASAP. For more information, please call Jarrodd on 0438 661 623 or email jarrodd.edwards@talentinternational.com.