12-month contract with a 12-month extension option
Canberra-based Commonwealth Government engagement
NV1 security clearance preferred

Resolve Recruit is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Architect to provide technical and strategic architecture leadership across a Federal Government agency's core cyber security platforms and services. This role focuses on the design, integration, uplift and ongoing technical coherence of security monitoring, identity, endpoint, cloud, emerging technology and secure internet access capabilities.

You will work primarily within Cyber Security, partnering with Cloud Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure, End User Computing, enterprise architecture and project teams. You'll need a deep understanding of complex enterprise environments, the ability to translate architecture into implemented, supportable outcomes, and the confidence to challenge generic or vendor-led proposals in favour of practical, environment-specific designs.

Key Responsibilities
Own and maintain the architecture for enterprise security monitoring, including SIEM, Windows Event Collection and cloud telemetry
Provide architecture leadership for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint,



Purview and Defender for Identity
Lead cyber security architecture reviews across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, SaaS and data initiatives
Produce high-level and detailed designs, integration diagrams, security patterns and architecture decision records
Develop target architectures and technical roadmaps for the rationalisation or uplift of security platforms
Apply the ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and ASD guidance to technical architecture and design decisions

Key Experience and Skills
Designing, integrating and uplifting cyber security technologies across complex enterprise settings
SIEM architecture, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity, including sensor design and telemetry coverage
Rapid7, Windows Event Collection or equivalent technologies highly desirable
Solid working knowledge of the ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight and relevant ASD guidance

If you’re an experienced Cyber Security Architect looking to work in a technically broad, high-impact Commonwealth Government workplace, we’d love to hear from you.

📌 Cyber Security Architect Canberra
🏢 Resolve Recruit
📍 Canberra