Cyber Security Engineer
Cyber Security Engineer
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Job Description
The Security Engineer Cyber Security supports the technical implementation of NCS AUs Security strategy and initiatives and has significant technical knowledge and a deep understanding of the wide range of security technologies used to oversee the security posture of NCS AU and our customers. The role is highly operational with daily activities as part of the role in addition to management of the security team on a BAU basis. The role works with the Security team members and corporate IT to ensure that the security controls implemented within the organisation are effective and in place.
Change is to be expected within this role as the NCS business integrates and grows within Australia and the security threat landscape shifts around us. This role needs to be hands on assisting with those changes and the development of solutions artefacts and implementations. As change occurs this role will manage the capacity of the team to deal with the new activities and BAU driving efficient working practices and automation of common tasks.
Key Responsibilities:
This role involves a range of responsibilities from daily operational tasks to strategic security improvements. You will actively participate in all team operational duties including rotational oncall incident response security event triage and investigations. A key aspect of the position is consulting with business and technology teams to identify opportunities for enhancing operational security through automation data analysis and implementation enhancements. This includes partnering with these teams to ensure security issue remediation efforts are prioritized effectively and achieve optimal results as well as providing security consulting and advice to business projects.
Project management forms a significant part of this role. You will take technical ownership of security technologies deployed within NCS AU assuming responsibility for their overall health and operational availability. This includes evaluating emerging security products and technologies for potential use conducting proofofconcepts for longterm consideration.
From a risk management perspective you will leverage industry best practices and a strong understanding of current and emerging threats to evaluate the NCS AU technical environments. Your focus will be on identifying opportunities for improvement and risk mitigation. The successful candidate will be trustworthy reliable and conscientious demonstrating a high level of integrity. Crucially you will remain calm focused methodical and unflustered even under intense pressure.
A strong understanding of cybercriminal tactics and effective countermeasures is essential. You will utilize multiple data and information sources for threat hunting activities and security investigations. Finally a commitment to professional development is expected with the requirement to obtain and maintain relevant security
Qualifications :
- Strong demonstrable experience as a security engineer working with customers or within a midlarge organisation.
- Strong background working with a wide range of security technologies such as Splunk WAF Crowdstrike TrendMicro Vulnerability Scanning etc.
- Experience across a broad range of technology streams including infrastructure applications private and public clouds.
- Good communicator capable of explaining technical concepts to various audiences with differing levels of technical understandings.
- Strong understanding of public cloud security offerings and capabilities and experienced in securing such environments.
- Strong SPL skills to performing incident triage and investigation and writing alerts and dashboards to achieve security outcomes.
- Programming skills (Ruby PowerShell Python JavaScript Wireshark etc) and the ability to leverage those to solve complex problems or automate mundane tasks.
Additional Information :
Why join us:
NCS Australia is where you can feel at home nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave initiatives focused on your wellbeing and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint industry and partner training programs special interest groups and an AIdriven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.
NCS Australia is an equalopportunity employer and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity ethnicity sexual orientation disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.
At NCS Australia we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply.
Agencies:
Weve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process no fee or payment will be given.
Work rights and background checks:
To be eligible for a position with us applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process including probity and police checks
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
