Job Title: Principal Resilience Consultant

Employment Type: Contract / Fixed-Term

Location: Sydney

Role Purpose

We are seeking a senior Principal Resilience Consultant to lead resilience discovery and assessment activities across the organization.

This role involves independently planning and facilitating structured workshops with senior stakeholders to identify critical dependencies, vulnerabilities, and resilience maturity gaps. The consultant will translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations to strengthen overall resilience posture.

Key Responsibilities

1. Resilience Discovery & Assessment

- Plan, scope, and facilitate resilience discovery workshops with senior stakeholders (GMs, Heads of Functions)
- Conduct end-to-end resilience assessments aligned to:
- Operational resilience
- Business continuity
- Impact tolerance frameworks
- Identify critical dependencies, risks, and vulnerabilities across systems and processes

2. Measurement & Analysis

- Define and apply resilience measurement approaches , including:
- Maturity assessments
- Provide data-driven insights to support resilience improvements

3. Reporting & Insights

- Assessment reports
- Heatmaps
- Remediation recommendations
- Translate workshop outcomes into clear, structured, board-ready outputs

4. Stakeholder Engagement

- Engage senior stakeholders and SMEs to:
- Validate findings
- Gain alignment and buy-in
- Drive remediation initiatives
- Act as a bridge between business and technical teams

5. Methodology & Continuous Improvement

- Contribute to the enhancement of resilience methodologies, frameworks, and toolkits
- Support development of playbooks and standard practices
- Drive continuous improvement in resilience maturity

6.



Technical Resilience (DevSecOps & Cloud)

- Integrate resilience practices within DevSecOps and cloud environments
- Support resilience across:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Promote secure, scalable, and reliable system design

Resilience & Consulting

- Proven experience in resilience assessments (operational, business, or organizational)
- Maturity assessments
- Impact tolerance analysis
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead senior stakeholder workshops
- Strong capability in synthesizing complex information into executive-ready outputs
- Experience working in a highly autonomous contract role

Technical Expertise

- 7+ years of experience in DevOps / DevSecOps
- Strong experience with:
- Cloud platforms (preferably Azure)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- CI/CD pipeline design and security integration
- Hands-on experience with:
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Container security practices
- Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Shell, Python)
- Experience with GitOps tools and practices :
- Exposure to regulatory resilience frameworks (e.g., CPS 230, DORA, or equivalent)
- Background in consulting, risk advisory, or resilience programs
- Experience with:
- Resilience maturity models
- Scenario testing and impact tolerance frameworks
- Certifications such as:
- MBCI / FBCI / CBCI
- CISM / CRISC or equivalent

Additional Preferred Technical Exposure

- AWS resilience and reliability practices
- Observability tools (e.g., monitoring and tracing solutions)
- Chaos engineering concepts and tools
- Solid stakeholder management (senior leadership level)
- Workshop facilitation and influencing skills
- Analytical thinking and structured problem-solving
- Ability to work independently and deliver outcomes

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