Job: - Senior Cyber Security Architect - (Must have Baseline Clearance)
Duration: - 6 Months (Possible Extension)
Location: - Canberra (Onsite)
We are looking for an
experienced Senior Cyber Security Architect
for one of the government organisations for an upcoming project.
Required Skills
Experience in
conducting security assessments on infrastructure, network, application designs.
Minimum of 5+ years of experience in
Cyber Security Strategy design, development and implementation
.
Experience in
providing security consulting to large and complex projects
with the ability to engage with vendors and review vendor proposals.
Experience in
performing regular security reviews and compliance testing
to ensure adherence to adopted security standards.
Experience in
preparing and coordinating strategic advice, research, information and reports
on diverse and complex policy, planning and operational matters to ensure the appropriate analysis of issues to support executive decision making.
Experience
assessing and implementing security & risk standards
(e.g.,
ISO *******, PCI-DSS, Cloud Security, ISO ***** etc
).
Strong knowledge on the
ITIL Service Management Framework
and its practical execution within IT projects.
Strong knowledge on
PMP and/or PRINCE2 Project Management Frameworks
and their practical execution within IT projects.
Responsibilities




Engage with stakeholders throughout the Department to understand their requirements and build tailored security requirements that vendors must satisfy.
Conduct vendor risk assessments by reviewing, interpreting and responding to detailed vendor responses to security requirement specifications to ensure alignment between vendor security controls and the Departments security requirements.
Engage with Solution Architects to build appropriate security requirements that would need to be injected into new or modified solution designs.
Review High Level Solution Architecture Design documents that are presented and provide endorsement to these once all security requirements have been satisfied.
Collaborate with all project, program, IDS and vendor stakeholders to ensure that security risks are documented, acknowledged and where necessary remediated prior to formal vendor engagement or solution development/implementation.
Assess recent operational risks against current security and technology controls to determine risk rating and also work with the risk owner to ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are developed.
Work within the Security Architecture Team to refresh the IDS Cyber Security Strategy.
Security Clearance
Candidates must have
Baseline Security Clearance.
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📌 Senior Cyber Security Architect (Canberra)
🏢 Acolade Consulting
📍 Canberra