• ERP Cyber Security | Security Architecture | ServiceNow security
• 6 months + 2 x 6 months
• Canberra location – Onsite
• Must be an Australian Citizen with ability to obtain NV1 security clearance

Our Client

This federal government department provides strategic policy advice, program and service delivery and regulatory administration across the major infrastructure, transport, communications and arts sectors that support our regions, cities and territories. Their work prioritises planning for the digital economy, liveability of cities into the future, creation of next-generation transport and telecommunications systems, as well as empowerment of regional communities and the promotion and protection of a thriving First Nations cultural and arts sector.

The Role

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Cyber Security Adviser to play a critical role in the delivery of a major enterprise ERP transformation program. Working across business, technical and vendor stakeholders, you will provide expert security advice and assurance to ensure the solution is designed, implemented and transitioned into operations securely and compliantly.

Your duties will include:

• Provide cyber security advice throughout the ERP program lifecycle, from solution design through to go-live and operational transition.
• Develop and review security architecture, cloud security controls and risk assessments across Workday, ServiceNow, AWS and Azure environments.
• Produce security documentation including risk management plans, security assessments, accreditation artefacts and security recommendations.
• Support security testing activities including penetration testing, vulnerability management and remediation tracking.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, vendors and implementation partners to provide security assurance, technical guidance and strategic advice.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience providing cyber security advice on large-scale ERP implementations.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture, cloud security and secure integration patterns across AWS and Azure.
• Experience with ServiceNow security and platform governance
• Experience with Workday security (highly desirable)
• Expertise in Australian Government security frameworks including ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and IRAP requirements.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust principles and privileged access controls.
• Experience preparing security risk assessments, accreditation documentation and security assurance artefacts.
• Ability to assess vendor security documentation and provide practical security recommendations.

Application Process

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela at jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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Senior Cyber Security Consultant

We are looking for a Senior Cyber Security Consultant to join a growing technology consulting team, supporting enterprise and government clients across complex security environments.
This role will suit someone with strong security engineering experience, solid stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to provide technical advice across a range of cyber security technologies.

Location: Canberra,
Work model: Hybrid
Clearance: Baseline clearance with ability to obtain NV1.

About the role
You will work across multiple client environments, providing security advice, solution design, implementation support, and ongoing service improvement across cyber engineering services.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical security advice to internal teams, service delivery teams, and customers
• Lead customer meetings and technical workshops
• Support security design, gap analysis, and implementation planning
• Assist with incident, problem, and change management activities
• Review and improve customer security environments
• Support upgrades, policy tuning, new implementations, and service improvements
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement
• Maintain awareness of emerging security threats, trends, and technologies

Skills and experience

• 5+ years’ experience in security engineering, consulting, or support
• Strong understanding of IP networking and security principles
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• SSE / ZTNA technologies such as Zscaler or Netskope
• Next-generation firewalls such as Fortinet or Palo Alto
• Web application filtering such as F5 or Imperva
• Vulnerability scanning tools such as Tenable or Rapid7
• Microsoft security tools, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, or similar
• Ability to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience developing security designs, standards, and implementation plans
• Knowledge of frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, or ASD Essential Eight
• Strong communication skills and a customer-focused approach

Benefits

• Salary package from $120k-$150k including super, depending on experience
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Option to purchase additional leave
• Opportunity to work across varied enterprise and government projects

This is a great opportunity for a security professional looking to step into a consulting role with exposure to multiple clients, modern security technologies, and complex project environments.

Apply now or contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

Senior Cyber Specialist – Defence

Williamtown, NSW

Permanent Full-Time | Active NV2 Clearance Required

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Senior Cyber Specialist to join a Defence capability program supporting complex, high-security ICT environments.

Working as part of a specialist team, you’ll provide expert cyber security advice, lead security assurance and accreditation activities, and work closely with Defence, engineering, and project stakeholders to ensure critical systems meet stringent security and governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide cyber security and ICT security SME advice across complex Defence systems.
• Support security assurance, certification, accreditation, and authorisation activities.
• Develop Assessment & Authorisation (A&A) artefacts and security documentation.
• Conduct cyber readiness and security verification activities.
• Interpret and apply Defence security policy, governance, and risk frameworks.
• Collaborate with technical teams and senior stakeholders to deliver secure capability outcomes.

About You

• Proven Defence cyber security experience is essential.
• Strong experience in cyber security, ICT security, or system security within highly secure, regulated environments.
• Experience delivering security assurance, certification, accreditation, or ICT governance activities.
• Strong understanding of Defence security frameworks, RMF, or similar assurance methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Australian Citizenship and an active NV2 Security Clearance are essential.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in protecting nationally significant Defence capability while working alongside highly experienced cyber and engineering professionals.

• Canberra based leadership role with occasional travel
• Must be eligible to hold an Australian Government security clearance
• Broad technology leadership across cyber security, cloud, architecture, applications, data and enterprise platforms

This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced technology executive to shape the direction of a complex digital environment and strengthen organisational cyber resilience. Reporting to the CIO, you will lead the implementation of technology strategy, influence executive decision-making and ensure technology investments deliver secure, practical and sustainable business outcomes.

Your duties will include:

• Leading the implementation of technology and cyber security strategy across cloud, infrastructure, enterprise applications, integration, data and architecture.
• Providing trusted advice to the CIO, executive leadership, governance committees and risk forums.
• Developing technology roadmaps, annual delivery plans and investment priorities aligned with organisational objectives.
• Acting as the organisation’s Information Technology Security Adviser and overseeing cyber security governance, risk, compliance and incident reporting.
• Leading, coaching and developing a small, high-performing technology team while managing competing priorities and delivery risks.
• Establishing practical technology and cyber security policies, standards and governance frameworks.
• Overseeing technology vendors, contracts, procurement activities, budgets and commercial performance.

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Demonstrated experience in senior technology, digital or cyber security leadership roles.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary enterprise technology environments, including cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, integration, data and cyber security.
• Demonstrated experience translating technology strategy into clear plans, priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Advanced leadership capability, with experience building teams, removing delivery barriers and leading through change and ambiguity.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to prepare board papers, governance reports, risk updates and strategic briefings.
• Proven commercial acumen across technology investment, vendor management, contracts, procurement and financial management.
• The ability to translate complex technical issues into clear, practical advice for executive and non-technical stakeholders.

Application Process:
This position will suit a commercially minded technology leader who can operate confidently across strategy, governance, cyber security and delivery. You will need to be comfortable working at executive level while maintaining enough technical depth to challenge assumptions, assess risk and guide sound investment decisions.

If you would like to apply, please contact Steve on email to begin with: steven.jobson@talentinternational.com

Join a major enterprise technology transformation and help modernise critical business applications within one of Australia’s largest and most sophisticated technology environments.

We’re seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer with strong Java and React expertise to contribute to a long-term application modernisation program. You’ll join a collaborative Agile team focused on building secure, scalable, cloud-ready applications while uplifting legacy platforms to improve performance, resilience and maintainability.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a significant enterprise transformation, leveraging modern technologies, contemporary engineering practices and a strong culture of technical excellence.

The Role

You’ll play a key role in designing, developing and enhancing enterprise applications across both frontend and backend technologies. Working alongside architects, engineers and product teams, you’ll help deliver high-quality software while driving application modernisation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise applications using Java and React.
• Build and enhance RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Modernise legacy applications using contemporary engineering practices.
• Develop responsive, intuitive user interfaces.
• Produce clean, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional Agile teams.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies and technical discussions.

About You

You’ll bring:

• Strong commercial experience with Java (11/17+) and Spring Boot.
• Proven experience developing applications using React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
• Experience building REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and design principles.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Git.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Application modernisation or legacy uplift projects.
• DevSecOps or enterprise security initiatives.
• NoSQL databases.
• Secure software development practices (OWASP).

Contract Details

• 12-month contract
• Up to $982 per day inclusive of super
• Ground breaking AI project
• Hybrid working arrangement

If you’re looking to contribute to a large-scale enterprise transformation while working with modern technologies and a high-performing engineering team, apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

About the role:

Responsible for building, developing, configuring, and implementing automated techniques and cyber security controls to prevent attacks from malicious threat actors for all Water Corporation systems. Provide guidance to the cyber security lead team and senior management on protective controls used to manage cyber security risk and mentor team members on good security practice. Respond to cyber security incidents to contain, remediate and recover business systems to ensure their integrity and limit the impact of these events and create or modify flaws in cyber security controls to prevent reoccurrence.

What the role will involve:

• Design or validate security configurations and access to security infrastructure tools in alignment with Water Corporation’s cyber security strategy, principles and threat management practices.
• Research, design, and implement cyber security solutions for organisation systems and products that comply with all applicable security policies and standards.
• Analyse, plan and remediate vulnerabilities and threats to Water Corporation systems and participate in identifying and analysing security threats and risks and implement security controls to mitigate threats and risks.
• Provide security advice into changes, designs and design reviews of OT and IT Infrastructure, applications, and OT/IT system communications.
• Respond to cyber security incidents by containing and remediating impacting events to limit effect on Water Corporation systems and analyse weakness of controls that resulted in the impacting event and engineer remediation works to these controls.

Key skills and experience:

• Must be based in Perth, there is no option to work remotely for this role
• Substantial experience in cyber security engineering with exposure to OT environments.
• Exposure to Cyber security architecture practices and methods is highly desirable.
• Business planning, systems analysis, application development or Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) backgrounds highly sought after.
• Knowledge in Risk assessment procedures, policy formation, security attack pathologies and security architecture development and definition
• Knowledge and understanding of cyber security and architecture frameworks such as : ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF and associated special publications, and COBIT /TOGAF frameworks.
• Knowledge and understanding of People, Process and Technology cyber security controls and their implementation.

To be considered for this opportunity you must be currently residing in WA and have proven experience in OT environment.

To find out more, please forward your updated CV to Huma Irshad by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, please call for a confidential chat on 0418 594 901 or email huma.irshad@talentinternational.com

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• 12 month ongoing fixed term contract with multiple extensions
• Help set up the Security Applications and Environment for a unique federal government
• Must be Australian citizen to apply – get your NV1 clearance!

Our client is currently on the lookout for an experienced Security Engineer to drive the development and implementation of an enterprise-level set of security applications (Logging, Vulnerability, MFA, AAA) within an Operational Support System (OSS). The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and is capable of translating client requirements and desired policies and controls from the Security team into technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 7-10+ years’ experience working in as a Security Engineer/Consultant with a good understanding of deploying security products and services to achieve program and client milestones
• Tertiary Education in IT or Engineering
• Good understanding of Information Security Manual (ISM)
• Experience with SIEM, PAM, Endpoint protection, and other network scanning applications / tools including Splunk, Logzilla, Rapid7, Nesus, Tanium, CyberArc, Imprivata, Cisco Endpoint Protection, Airlock Digital, SentinelOne, Symantex, etc
• Ability to perform enterprise security access control, baseline configuration management, and system performance testing to ensure compliance to requirements
• Manage and maintain enterprise configuration and provide internal and external (client) technical support
• Managing and/or conducting network scanning and analysis of vulnerabilities and mitigation plan
• Must be Australian citizen with the ability to undergo and obtain Australian Defence security clearance to NV1

Benefits:

• Secure 12 -24 month ongoing contract with ongoing extensions
• Get in early and set up the security environment for a complex, enterprise network environment
• Top of the market salary + guaranteed bonus on offer
• Interview and start ASAP

If you would like to know more please contact Sean Mantri on 0420 425 141 / sean.mantri@talentinternational.com or hit Apply Now!

My client, a fast-growing AI infrastructure company is looking for an Enterprise Sales Engineer to support enterprise growth across Australia and the wider APAC region.

The business is building next-generation AI model inference and agent infrastructure that enables organisations to securely deploy and scale AI models within private environments. With strong momentum globally and a rapidly growing customer base, they are now investing heavily in their go-to-market capability across the region.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys sitting between technology and business – helping customers understand how AI can practically be implemented within their environment, without needing to be deeply hands-on in engineering delivery.

The Role

This is a predominantly pre-sales focused role (approximately 80-90%), partnering closely with Sales to guide enterprise customers through discovery, solution design, technical demonstrations, and proof-of-value engagements.

You’ll operate as a trusted technical advisor, helping organisations understand where AI infrastructure and agent technologies can deliver commercial and operational value.

While you’ll need a solid technical foundation, this role is more consultative than deeply engineering-heavy. Offshore technical teams will support much of the hands-on implementation and setup work, while you remain customer-facing and solution-oriented locally.

Reporting directly to the Sales Manager, you’ll play a key role in helping shape the company’s enterprise growth strategy across Australia.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales teams throughout enterprise sales cycles
• Lead technical discovery workshops and customer conversations
• Deliver product demonstrations and technical presentations
• Support proof-of-value and evaluation engagements with customers
• Translate customer challenges into AI infrastructure and deployment solutions
• Act as a trusted advisor to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work closely with offshore technical teams responsible for implementation and setup
• Provide customer and market feedback to internal product and leadership teams
• Maintain clear CRM documentation across opportunities and customer engagements

About You

• Experience in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consultant, DevOps, or customer-facing technical role
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to simplify technical concepts and articulate business value clearly
• Exposure to AI, cloud, infrastructure, developer tooling, DevOps, data platforms, or modern SaaS environments
• Technical understanding of scripting/programming concepts (Python exposure highly regarded)
• Consultative mindset with the ability to engage enterprise customers strategically
• Comfortable working in fast-moving startup or scale-up environments
• Previous experience supporting technical pre-sales engagements is highly desirable

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to join a rapidly scaling AI infrastructure business at a pivotal growth stage
• Strong exposure to enterprise AI transformation projects across APAC
• Highly consultative and customer-facing role with genuine ownership
• Hybrid working environment with flexibility and autonomy
• Collaborative global team with strong technical leadership
• Competitive salary aligned to broader SaaS pre-sales market expectations

Additional Details

• Hybrid working model (initially remote, transitioning to 3 days in office)
• Sydney-based
• Reporting line into Sales leadership
• Strong opportunity for growth as the business expands regionally

A leading Financial Services provider is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Consultant to join their team on an initial six month contract.

Joining a security by design practice, you will be working on a number of project engagements and engaging with business stakeholders from across the business. You will be responsible for conducting security and threat assessments to ensure workloads or systems are assessed against appropriate security controls, risk mitigation exercises to ensure adequate controls have been considered as part of the overall solution, as well as providing recommendations and advice to ensure solutions falls within internal security guidelines.

This position will suit candidates who are collaborative, with strong stakeholder engagement skills combined with a solid background in cyber security architecture.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications (i.e. CISSP)
• Strong experience working as a Cyber Security Consultant within large complex environments (preferably Financial Services)
• Good understanding of information security / architecture / risk frameworks such as SABSA, NIST 800, ISO 27001 / 31000 and/or TOGAF
• Proven experience consulting and providing advice to business and technical stakeholders on a range of projects
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with a proven ability to consult, negotiate and influence
• Superior verbal and written communication skills

This role can be offered on a remote basis with the option of working hybrid from their Sydney or Parramatta office.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please apply online now!

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Senior Cyber Security Consultant

We are looking for a Senior Cyber Security Consultant to join a growing technology consulting team, supporting enterprise and government clients across complex security environments.
This role will suit someone with strong security engineering experience, solid stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to provide technical advice across a range of cyber security technologies.

Location: Canberra,
Work model: Hybrid
Clearance: Baseline clearance with ability to obtain NV1.

About the role
You will work across multiple client environments, providing security advice, solution design, implementation support, and ongoing service improvement across cyber engineering services.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical security advice to internal teams, service delivery teams, and customers
• Lead customer meetings and technical workshops
• Support security design, gap analysis, and implementation planning
• Assist with incident, problem, and change management activities
• Review and improve customer security environments
• Support upgrades, policy tuning, new implementations, and service improvements
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement
• Maintain awareness of emerging security threats, trends, and technologies

Skills and experience

• 5+ years’ experience in security engineering, consulting, or support
• Strong understanding of IP networking and security principles
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• SSE / ZTNA technologies such as Zscaler or Netskope
• Next-generation firewalls such as Fortinet or Palo Alto
• Web application filtering such as F5 or Imperva
• Vulnerability scanning tools such as Tenable or Rapid7
• Microsoft security tools, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, or similar
• Ability to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience developing security designs, standards, and implementation plans
• Knowledge of frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, or ASD Essential Eight
• Strong communication skills and a customer-focused approach

Benefits

• Salary package from $120k-$150k including super, depending on experience
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Option to purchase additional leave
• Opportunity to work across varied enterprise and government projects

This is a great opportunity for a security professional looking to step into a consulting role with exposure to multiple clients, modern security technologies, and complex project environments.

Apply now or contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

We are seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join a high-profile cyber security program focused on modernising Security Operations and leveraging AI-driven capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in designing, building, and operating the security platforms that underpin a large-scale enterprise environment. You will own critical SIEM and integration capabilities, helping to improve threat detection, automation, and security operations effectiveness.

About the Role

As the Security Engineer – SIEM & Integration, you will be responsible for the security data pipeline, SIEM platform engineering, security tool integrations, and automation capabilities that support a modern SOC environment.

You will work closely with cyber security, engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams to deliver scalable and resilient security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage enterprise SIEM platforms, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability
• Design and maintain log ingestion, onboarding, normalisation, filtering, and routing processes
• Build and support integrations between security platforms including EDR, XDR, email security, cloud security, WAF, and threat intelligence solutions
• Develop and maintain security automation and orchestration workflows
• Build and support AI-enabled security operations capabilities, including automated triage, investigation, and response processes
• Manage detection-as-code frameworks, repositories, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD processes
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to continuously improve security monitoring and operational effectiveness

Requirements

• Strong experience with Microsoft Sentinel or other modern SIEM platforms
• Advanced KQL (Kusto Query Language) skills
• Experience with log pipeline technologies, data onboarding, and log normalisation
• Strong integration engineering experience using APIs, connectors, and event-driven architectures
• Experience with Azure services, including Event Hub
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and/or Bicep

What’s on Offer?

• Initial 12-month contract with strong extension potential
• Opportunity to work on a large-scale cyber security transformation program
• Exposure to cutting-edge SIEM, automation, and AI-driven security technologies
• Collaborative and highly skilled security team

If you’re passionate about security engineering, SIEM platforms, automation, and modern security operations, we’d love to hear from you.

A well-known Australian enterprise organisation is seeking a Security Engineer with strong detection and response experience to join their team on an initial twelve month program engagement.

Joining a high-profile cyber security program focused on the use of AI technologies within cyber security, the successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing the organisation’s detection and response capabilities across endpoint, cloud, and identity security. Working within a collaborative security team, you will leverage your strong EDR/XDR and cloud security expertise to improve threat detection, automate response capabilities, and strengthen the organisation’s overall security posture.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant industry certifications
• Proven experience in Security Operations, Detection Engineering, or Security Engineering within large and complex environments
• Deep experience with EDR/XDR platforms, ideally CrowdStrike Falcon or similar enterprise security technologies
• Strong experience managing endpoint security controls, detection rules, policy configuration, threat response, and exposure management capabilities
• Experience with CSPM, CNAPP, and cloud security posture management across enterprise cloud environments
• Strong understanding of detection engineering, threat detection lifecycles, and security monitoring methodologies
• Experience integrating security tooling across endpoint, cloud, identity, and security operations platforms
• Strong experience with Python scripting, APIs, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of AI-enabled detection and response capabilities within a large-scale enterprise environment. To be considered for this opportunity, please apply online now.

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