Junior Security Analysts

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Junior Security Analysts - APS 4. This is a long-term contractual position.

Please check below all the job details:

1. Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Only Canberra (Hybrid working available)
3. Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above.
4. Tentative Start Date: 1st July 2025

Position Description:

Cyber Advisors provide ICT security advice and assistance to government, including policy creation, project advice and assistance, and research.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for actioning and allocating SIAM cyber related tickets through our client's system and other cybersecurity queues like shared mailboxes.
• Responsible for proxy administration, website whitelisting and troubleshooting requests related to proxy rule restrictions.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders both written and verbal.
• Developing and maintaining cyber knowledge base articles for the SIAM, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for cyber teams.
• Level 1 and 2 Incident investigation and response within the designated SIEM, escalating tickets to incident response manager and senior cyber resources where required.
• Alert response activities within a protected environment SIEM.
• Contribute to Change Management for DAFF relating to cyber security and other approval requests.

Technical skills:

Minimum two years demonstrated experience with: Enterprise Proxies Azure Sentinel Defender XDR Splunk Active Directory Ticket management systems.

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a Cyber Security related role.
• Demonstrated experience with the toolsets and platforms noted under the technical skills section.
• Demonstrated experience producing standard operating procedures in a Cyber environment and producing operational technical documentation/user guides for cyber designated systems.
• Experience in an IT environment in Change Management reviews in particular firewall rules.
• Experience working with ITIL processes.
• Communicating to end users regarding cyber requests, issues and queries.

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to [email protected]

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates.