Principal Cyber Security Specialist, Queensland Fire Department Brisbane - North, Australia

Your part in the ongoing success of our department, in supporting key frontline services will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to:

- Lead and conduct technical investigations of security infrastructure to resolve business service degradation and failures within agreed service levels.
- Provide technical expertise in the capacity planning, configuration management, administration, change management, documentation and support of security technologies.
- Contribute with technical breadth across mainstream IT technology components to provide input into and review/challenge the technical design, installation and configuration of technology services to enable the secure delivery of business applications and services.
- Drive the continual improvement of the Security Operations Centre services, including improved infrastructure administration, monitoring, automation and streamlining, investigative practices, vulnerability assessment and remediation, reporting and other standard operating processes & procedures.
- Prioritise team workload, mentoring analysts and providing training and guidance through complex incidents.
- Continually expand knowledge of developments and trends within the network and information security industry in order to evaluate the benefit and applicability of current and emerging technologies.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships by communicating and negotiating with information management and information communication technology professionals, and external stakeholders to promote sound information security practices throughout the organisation.
- Participate as an active team member of the branch and directorate in the development of operational plans,



information and communication technology strategies and security infrastructure.

Mandatory requirements

- Participation in on-call arrangements and out of hours work as required

Highly desirable requirements

- Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or equivalent and/or Information Security industry certifications such as CISSP, GIAC (GCED, GSOC, GCIH, GCTI, GCIA), CEH, OSCP, CCSP, CISM and security vendor specific certifications.
- 4+ years of demonstrated experience, with an advanced skill level, in the effective configuration, support and administration of the following types of enterprise security solutions: Enterprise Firewalls & IDS/IPS
- Application Delivery Controllers (Application Firewalls, Reverse Proxies, Load Balancers)
- Networking & VPN solutions
- Demonstrated experience, in the effective configuration, support and administration of enterprise security solutions, such as: Email & Web Content Filtering
- Identity & Access Management
- Multifactor Authentication & RADIUS
- Cloud based services such as AWS & Azure.
- SIEM & SOAR
- EDR & NDR.
- PKI
- Microsoft Security Stack (including Sentinel and Defender)

Desirable requirements

- Experience in performing threat risk assessments utilising security and IT control frameworks such as NIST and ISO2700 series of IT security management best practices.
- Experience in the following technology domains with a background in one or more: Security Assurance Testing (Pen testing).
- Software Development and integration
- Infrastructure (server operating systems, virtualisation, database, storage)
- Automation & Orchestration
- Desktop operating system management
- Mobility (Apple, Windows, MDM's)
- Knowledge of ITIL and Dev/Sec/Ops

Additional information

- Applications to remain current for 12 months

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📌 Principal Cyber Security Specialist, Queensland Fire Department (Brisbane)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 Brisbane