• Ongoing permanent role
• Must be Australian citizen and ability to obtain Baseline
• Location- Canberra

Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cyber Operation Security Expert – EL1 Assistant Director to join our client. This ongoing role offers an exciting opportunity to lead and manage cyber operations, ensuring the delivery and enhancement of cyber platforms while promoting a culture of security awareness and compliance.

The key responsibilities of the Assistant Director, Cyber Operations include:

• Leadership and Management: Lead and manage the Cyber Operations team, providing strategic direction and fostering staff development.
• Incident Response and Management: Develop and implement action plans for cyber security events, coordinate responses to threats, and manage potential malicious activities.
• Cyber Platform Oversight: Oversee security platforms, including gateway security, privileged access management, and vulnerability management, ensuring alignment with compliance efforts.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats and trends, implementing measures to address them while ensuring compliance with relevant standards.
• Security Awareness and Education: Promote a culture of security awareness and education across the organisation.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to guide and develop a team.
• Expertise in incident response, cyber platform oversight, and proactive risk management.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of cyber frameworks, legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex security issues.
• A proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks.

Application Process
If you would like to apply, please contact Deep on 0413 109 712 or email deepika.ahluwalia@talentinternational.com.

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Title: Cyber Security Incident Response Manager
Location: Sydney
Type: Full-Time | Hybrid (Work-from-Home and Onsite)

We are seeking an accomplished Cyber Security Incident Response Manager to lead a high-performing Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) within a respected higher education institution. This role is critical in enhancing our organisation’s security posture and response capabilities.

Extensive experience working within a Security Operations Centre (SOC) environment is essential, as is a strong background in incident response and leadership. While experience in the higher education sector is beneficial, it is not a requirement.

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of cyber security professionals, ensuring effective incident detection, response, and resolution.

• Manage and coordinate security incidents across the organisation, acting as the escalation point for complex and high-impact events.

• Design, implement, and maintain incident response playbooks and processes aligned with industry best practices.

• Deliver regular security reporting and post-incident analysis to identify trends, improve processes, and inform strategic decisions.

• Perform proactive threat hunting and support intelligence-led defensive measures.

• Collaborate with MSSPs, technology vendors, and service providers to ensure high-quality service delivery and contract compliance.

• Lead crisis management initiatives, working closely with business continuity and disaster recovery teams.

• Oversee the SOC’s operations, driving continuous improvement in detection and response capabilities.

• Participate in an on-call roster to support urgent or critical incident response activities.

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About You

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in cyber security, including at least 3 years in a managerial or leadership role.

• Proven experience working within a SOC environment is essential.

• Deep understanding of incident response, threat intelligence, digital forensics, and cyber security frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001).

• Hands-on knowledge of key technologies including SIEM, EDR/EPP, WAF, SEG, NGFW, IAM, and others.

• Strong track record of managing MSSPs and coordinating with external partners.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCIH, or GCFA are highly desirable.

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Why Join Us?

• Play a pivotal leadership role in one of Australia’s most prominent higher education institutions.

• Lead a team operating at the forefront of cyber security strategy and operations.

• Benefit from flexible hybrid work arrangements and a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

• Enjoy competitive salary packaging and ongoing professional development opportunities.

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If you are an experienced SOC leader ready to make a difference in a meaningful and dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of cyber resilience in higher education.

• 12 months + 12 months
• Canberra location
• Must be an Australian Citizen

Our Client

This government agency is a service provider, responsible for providing and funding a range of support services to thousands of individuals across Australia. With multiple locations across Canberra, and nationwide, the organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for vulnerable Australians.

The Role

Our client is seeking a Monitoring Analyst to join their dynamic fast-paced team. The successful candidate will monitor critical business systems using various monitoring tools, including Splunk and Dynatrace.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Gain a deep understanding of key business processes and their business impacts to monitor accordingly, as well as enterprise and system architectures.
• Create and fine-tune monitoring solutions such as alerts, reports, and dashboards to identify, troubleshoot and notify internal technical and business teams.
• Identify and deliver continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen and enhance the maturity of overall monitoring solutions and processes.
• Undertake troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, including recommendations to system owners on solutions and improvements.

Skills and Experience

• More than 3 years’ experience working in an ICT monitoring or ICT operations role, ideally for CRM systems.
• Experience with Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Demonstrated experience developing alerts and monitoring solutions using monitoring tools and log analysis platforms.
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvements and continuous improvement activities.
• Strong knowledge of different log formats, including JSON, XML, CSV, and plain text.

Application

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email Jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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Our client
Our client is a unique government agency which works closely with a range of national and international partners to create connections and gather information to protect Australia from serious threats. They deliver information-sharing solutions at the state, territory and federal levels to ensure that essential information is available to all law enforcement agencies across Australia

The role
Our client requires a Business Analyst to manage the delivery of commercial and private cloud solutions to support the organisations goals and objectives for PROTECTED and OFFICIAL capabilities. Additionally, the candidate will need to work with customers to ensure the migration of systems to MCP supported solutions ensuring the programs Directives are delivered and legacy systems decommissioned.

Duties and responsibilities

• Accountable for investigating business needs, problems and opportunities and recommend effective business processes.
• Prepare or contribute to business cases which define potential benefits and options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes.
• Advise stakeholders and colleagues on the choice of techniques, tools and processes required for modelling and analysis activities and tasks.
• Apply knowledge of business analysis methods and techniques, modelling and quality assurance techniques to understand and articulate business processes and contribute to business outcomes.
• Build and sustain relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify their needs, reach agreement on the business objectives and gain commitment to achieving results.
• Analyse complex ICT business problems and apply expertise to identify and recommend courses of action.
• Accountable for accurate completion of work within timeframes and quality requirements, and share own expertise with others
• Identify potential business benefits and options to realise business improvements.
• Contribute to improvements in information systems and information management practices and procedures.
• Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools
• Define business problems via in-depth investigation and gathering of technical, and non-technical information
• Using Data Analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.
• Proficient in Atlassian services Confluence, and JIRA
• Formal skills working in a Technical team

Application
To apply for this position, hit “APPLY” now! For more information, please e-mail Emma at emma.gibbons@talentinternational.com

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The perks:

• Uncapped Commissions with quarterly accelerators!
• Multiple successful placement stories. Included SDR’s that I’ve placed promoting to AE!
• Work Laptop provided.
• Weekly Tuesday & Thursday lunches provided in office.
• Your first month will be guaranteed commissions.
• Great banter/culture – who doesn’t love a cheeky laugh!
• Hybrid working – Monday and Friday are WFH.
• Office is a short walk from North Sydney station.
• Growth opportunities available.
• Global and market leading product.
• Achievable targets – they want to reward you!

How will you contribute:

• Previous B2C/B2B sales experience is a must have.
• Very open to sales backgrounds (face to face or phone based) – proven track record meeting KPI’s is highly regarded.
• Prior 3+ months experience as an SDR/BDR/BDM or similar outbound calling role is a bonus.
• Must have a proven track record of exceeding KPI’s.
• You are a high energy individual with a ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Desire to learn and innately curious to know more about your clients.
• Ability to manage a high volume of outbound calls and correspondence. Daily activity consists of 60 warm/cold calls p/day.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• Full working rights in Australia and are based in Sydney, NSW.

What’s Next…

If you like what you’ve read above and it sounds like there could be a match, we’d love to hear from you. We invite you to APPLY NOW.

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Identity & Access Management (IDAM) Specialist to join a high-performing Program Delivery Team – driving innovation, leading change, and shaping the future of secure digital access.

In this role you’ll provide technical leadership, lead enhancement initiatives, and work hands-on to design, build, and deploy solutions for a range of business-critical applications

Key activities

• Lead and guide technical strategies for IDAM systems, driving best practices and innovation.
• Architect, enhance, and support complex software solutions across legacy and contemporary platforms.
• Influence and shape the organisation’s software development, integration, and system architecture standards.
• Drive automation and continuous integration initiatives to streamline operations and boost resilience.
• Supervise and mentor team members, helping to foster a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Ensure secure, seamless, and scalable IDAM environments across on-premises and cloud solutions.

Skills and experience

• Extensive experience leveraging software delivery methods, designing and developing solutions that create business value.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary Identity solutions and including directories and access management services and the application of design patterns
• Extensive experience developing and supporting Identity and Access Management integrations.
• A track record of designing, building, and maintaining robust IDAM solutions that deliver real business outcomes.
• Significant knowledge and demonstrated experience with cross functional agile delivery.
• Expertise across NetIQ, eDirectory, Active Directory (AD), Azure AD, and ADFS.
• Strong Microsoft technology stack experience – plus some DevOps know-how (Puppet, Bitbucket, Red Hat Satellite).
• Hands-on system administration with RHEL Linux and Windows environments.
• Proven ability working with SaaS requirements, SSO, RBAC and modern identity frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and a relentless drive for quality and innovation.
• Tertiary qualifications and/or industry certifications highly regarded.

Apply now to secure an interview or contact Carly Llorente on 9236 7704 for a confidential discussion.

Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking an EL2 Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager to join their team in any of their following offices – Richmond, Canberra, Geelong and Perth.

• 18-month initial contract plus 18-month extension, excellent rates negotiable
• Hybrid with 3 days per week onsite
• Federal government role – Australian citizenship required
• NV1 Security Clearance required (sponsorship granted by client if you don’t have it already)

The role:

The Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager is accountable directly to the CISO to undertake work with a high level of complexity or sensitivity that delivers quality outcomes across the functions of the client.
The position is an important thought leadership position and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail. The role is required to provide thought leadership, control, planning, resource management and decision making for the team.
The Cyber Security Risk Transformation Manager is responsible for initiating, establishing and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. Where required, they will represent and negotiate on behalf of the client to advance the client’s interests in cross-agency, inter-jurisdictional and other forums.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Transforming agency cyber security risk management practices and policies to better enhance management of cyber security risk for the client aligned to ISO 31000 and other better-practice risk frameworks

• Continue the transformation from a compliance-based security model to a better-practice cyber security risk model aligned to business objectives
• Aligning cyber security risk management practices across risk identification, analysis and evaluation within the client to enhance outcomes
• Advising the client on how they can build and embed cyber resilience within people, process, technology and third parties through agile and innovative Risk Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Working with key stakeholders, design agency disaster recovery solutions for worst case cyber security scenarios, including working with technology vendors, documenting recovery processes, and testing/exercising recovery methods
• Lead cyber resilience assessments; operational and service management processes; technical architecture, data resilience, testing and failover automation activities
• Create and uplift the Risk Transformation & Resilience area and ensure it is a significant element of ICT and the agency as a whole
• Lead and own process risk and resilience transformation and identify continuous improvement opportunities across service lines
• Identify gaps in risk and resilience processes, technology, and tools, proposing best practices to streamline operations.

About you:
The client is seeking a strong leader who has proven and demonstrated experience with the above key duties and responsibilities. You will ideally have worked in a government environment previously in a similar role with advanced Cyber Security Risk Transformation management experience.

APPLY:
Submit your resume or contact Shelley at shelley.harrison@talentinternational.com or call on 0418 572 482 for further information. Shortlisted will be contacted and applicants will be required provide an overview of your experience up to 5000 characters once you have been shortlisted. Submission date closes Tuesday 6^th May.

We have partnered with a leading provider of innovative IT solutions, specialized in customized technology services that empower businesses to thrive in a digital landscape. Their team of experts is dedicated to delivering strategic consulting, robust cybersecurity, and comprehensive managed services, all designed to drive efficiency and growth.

They are looking for a Principal Architect with a background in Cybersecurity and a balanced focus on Business Development (50%) and Service Delivery (50%). This role is ideal for a highly motivated professional who thrives in a matrix organization, leading multiple projects while engaging with vendors and driving business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales engagement – work closely with vendors and customers to craft solutions.
• Project oversight – act as an Engagement Manager, ensuring successful project execution.
• Oversee 5-6 concurrent projects, managing budgets, customer success, change orders etc..
• Provide leadership within a matrix structure, guiding field leaders responsible for delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and other key stakeholders.
• Cybersecurity & Networking focus – Less compliance-heavy, more technical/networking-based projects.
• Manage service delivery and drive business growth through consultative engagements.
• Track project status and provide status reports when necessary.
• Engage in strategic discussions around project execution, client satisfaction, and expansion.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Experienced in both service delivery and business development.
• Strong background in cybersecurity, networking, and technical pre-sales.
• Technology experience with security (Check Point, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Zscaler) and networking (Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet).
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance requirements and challenges that affect IT programs such as SOC2, SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, State and Federal privacy laws, and SEC regulations
• Adept at working in a matrix organization, leading projects, and coordinating resources.
• Able to balance project execution with growth initiatives.
• Strategic thinker who can collaborate across teams and drive results.

Work Schedule & Travel Expectations:

• Hybrid role with some in-office presence required 1x a week.
• Some Travel required.

Salary listed is OTE – $190-220k

At this time we are unable to provide Visa Transfers or Visa Sponsorship.