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$147,124 - $155,386 per annum (HEW Level 9), plus 17% superannuation and annual leave loading

Fixed-term contract, 2 Years

Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde

Detect, analyse and reduce cyber risk and help build the resilience that protects our entire university community.

Cyber threats are evolving rapid, and Macquarie University is investing in the specialist capability needed to stay ahead of them. As our Senior Threat and Vulnerability Analyst, you will play a pivotal part in reducing cyber risk exposure across a complex IT environment spanning infrastructure, applications and cloud platforms.

This role sits at the heart of our Cyber Security Operations function, providing dedicated capability to identify, analyse and prioritise vulnerabilities, and to monitor and assess emerging threats. Your work will enable faster, better-coordinated remediation with system owners and more consistent, risk-based decision-making informed by high-quality threat intelligence.

If you are a cyber security specialist who enjoys turning technical findings into clear, actionable advice and you want your expertise to have genuine impact at scale, this is an opportunity to help shape the University's cyber posture as we prepare for an increasingly complex threat landscape.

About the Role

Reporting to our Cyber Security Operations Manager, you will support the operational delivery of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and vulnerability management capabilities across Macquarie University and its entities. Your focus will be the timely identification, analysis, prioritisation and remediation of security threats and vulnerabilities, enabling informed, risk-based decision-making. Key responsibilities include:

- Identifying, assessing and prioritising security threats and vulnerabilities across infrastructure,



applications and cloud environments, using industry-standard tools and providing risk-based remediation recommendations.
- Overseeing the end-to-end remediation of identified vulnerabilities, working with system and service owners, tracking progress, escalating risks and helping ensure timely closure.
- Coordinating the collection, analysis and dissemination of cyber threat intelligence, monitoring threat feeds, advisories and emerging risks and assessing their relevance to the University's environment.
- Liaising with vendors and service providers to help meet contractual security requirements and address identified gaps.
- Helping drive continuous improvement of vulnerability management and threat intelligence processes, tooling and reporting, including automation and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Providing subject matter expertise for cyber security investigations, incidents and risk assessments, and offering surge input to technical architecture reviews as required.
- Developing and maintaining documentation, procedures, dashboards, reports and metrics that improve visibility of cyber risk exposure, vulnerability trends and remediation progress.
- Building stakeholder partnerships and providing trusted advice to encourage adoption of security best practices.

About Us

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People and Operations lead a broad portfolio encompassing the professional and business services of the Macquarie University Group, including Human Resources, Information Technology, Group Marketing, Future Students, and Shared Services.

Macquarie University Information Technology (MQ IT) embraces the University's mission to be bold, distinctive, progressive and transformational. We are a trusted business partner with an ethos of service, applying a collaborative partnership approach to transformation across the education, research and health portfolios. Within MQ IT, the Information Security team helps the University meet its compliance obligations and protects its people, information and systems from information security risks.

About You (Selection Criteria)

- You are a cyber security specialist who combines strong technical analysis with clear communication, translating complex findings into practical, risk-informed recommendations. You are comfortable managing multiple priorities and enjoy building effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of technical understanding.
- Relevant experience and/or qualifications in cyber security, information technology or a related discipline, with extensive experience in vulnerability management, threat intelligence or security operations within a complex IT environment.
- Experience using vulnerability scanning and/or security analysis tools (e.g. Tenable, Project Discovery, Qualys, OpenVAS or similar).
- Sound understanding and application of cyber threat intelligence concepts, including threat actors, attack vectors and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Proven ability to analyse technical outputs and translate findings into actionable recommendations that reduce risk, together with knowledge of infrastructure, application and cloud security conc

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