One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Cyber Security Engineer (Artificial Intelligence) - EL1

Please check below all the job details:

1. Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Canberra (Onsite office based)
3. Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above.
4. Tentative Start Date: 26th Oct 2026
5. Working Hours: 8 hours a day/ 40 hours a week

Overview: The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the strategic application of AI and relevant security controls in cyber security. This role will provide expert systems guidance on AI threat detection, risk mitigation, and policy development, ensuring the department remains resilient against emerging digital threats. The increasing sophistication of cyber threats poses a significant risk to national security, critical infrastructure, and public trust.

As AI technologies rapidly evolve, they offer both new opportunities and new challenges in the cyber security landscape.

The ideal candidate is a high-level operations technical expert with a deep understanding of both AI and cyber security. They possess a strong track record of applying security controls related to AI for real-world security challenges, particularly within complex or high-risk environments. With excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, they can bridge the gap between technical teams, architects and policy makers, translating advanced concepts into actionable controls within department's ICT Enterprise workplace.

They are proactive, ethically minded, and committed to safeguarding national interests through innovative, secure, and responsible AI deployment.

Experience in government or critical infrastructure sectors, along with relevant certifications and postgraduate qualifications, is highly desirable.

Key duties and responsibilities:

AI Governance and Controls:

- Act as the AI Cyber Security Lead in the development,



implementation, and continuous improvement of AI governance frameworks.
- Support the AI Accountable Authority through the development and implementation of AI strategies to enhance cyber security capabilities across the department.
- Design and implement AI control frameworks aligned to cyber security, privacy, risk, and compliance requirements.
- Develop security standards, and procedures governing the use of AI technologies across the department.
- Assess AI solutions against security, privacy, ethical, and legislative requirements.
- Establish processes model for accountability, transparency, monitoring, and assurance as it relates to AI
- Conduct research and horizon scanning to identify emerging AI trends and their implications for cyber security.

AI Risk Management:

- Conduct AI risk assessments and identify appropriate mitigations.
- Evaluate AI use cases and provide recommendations on secure and responsible deployment.
- Monitor emerging AI threats, such as data leakage, prompt injection, model manipulation, and unauthorised AI usage etc.
- Support the management of AI-related risks within the department's broader cyber security risk framework.

Microsoft AI and Data Protection Controls: Design, document, implement and maintain AI-related controls within Microsoft 365 and associated platforms. Configure and manage items such as:

- Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI.
- Microsoft Purview DLP.
- Sensitivity Labels.
- Information Protection.
- Insider Risk Management.
- Communication Compliance.




- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
- Copilot governance and data access controls.

Technical skills:

- Understanding of AI governance, cloud computing environments and secure data handling practices.
- Certifications such as CISM, SC-100, SC-401, SC-500, MS-102 or equivalent are highly desirable.

Essential Criteria:

- Experience in AI governance, technology risk, cyber security governance, or information security.
- Experience implementing cyber security and compliance controls within Microsoft 365.
- Experience with implementing Microsoft Purview, DLP, information protection technologies as it related to AI Governance.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including collaboration with technical teams, policy makers, and external partners.
- Demonstrated understanding of AI governance frameworks, responsible AI principles, privacy and data protection requirements, risk management methodologies and cyber security controls.
- Familiarity with Australian Government frameworks such as PSPF, ISM, and Essential 8 along with international frameworks such as NIST.

Desirable Criteria:

- Experience with Microsoft technologies and platforms, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio.
- Exposure to cloud-based AI and data solutions across multiple vendors, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and third-party generative AI platforms and large language models, such as Anthropic Claude and similar AI technologies.
- Understanding of emerging AI, automation, and low-code/no-code solutions within enterprise environments.

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

📌 Cyber Security Engineer (Artificial Intelligence) (Australian Capital Territory)
🏢 IT Alliance Australia
📍 Australian Capital Territory