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Trustwave

Information Technology Security Manager

Canberra, Australia

Role

This role will require you to be a trusted advisor, a people manager, and a mentor. Individuals will possess a rare mix of business development, team management and consulting delivery skills.

As the Information Technology Security Manager, you will be the conduit between government agencies and their vendors. As the conduit, government agencies and their vendors will look to you as a trusted advisor to understand how to meet their security objectives.

This role requires you to provide a broad range of advisory services, covering security strategy, governance, risk, and compliance topics, as well as enough of a technical background to scope, review and challenge network architectures and technical security assessments (penetration testing and system configuration reviews).

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Please note, due to client requirements, it is mandatory you hold a security clearance or be willing / eligible to obtain a NV1 clearance (this includes being an Australian citizen).

Responsibilities

  • Lead a security team providing cyber security management expertise based on best practice and policy requirements. This will involve providing leadership, co-ordination, review and setting the quality assurance activities for your team.
  • Develop and maintain a system security documentation suite in line with organisational requirements, PSPF, and ISM, that is subject to independent third-party IRAP assessment.
  • Oversight on internal/external security audit activities such as IRAP assessments or client audit activities.
  • Deliver periodic security reporting such as compliance reports and updates to remediation activities.
  • Evangelise security best practices for new projects and business-as-usual processes. This may include but is not limited to scoping technical testing, architecture reviews and security documentation development.
  • Ability to deliver security risk assessments.
  • Point of contact for security related incidents, security advice and change requests with a security impact.
  • Develop innovation and process efficiencies to improve stakeholder experience.

Client Management:

  • Ability to communicate security concepts and findings with senior executives and technical stakeholders.
  • Management of customers throughout security project lifecycles.
  • Ability to quickly learn the customer’s existing technology ecosystem and apply security principles and best practices.
  • Engagement with pre-sales teams to scope security requirements for solutions and system upgrades.
  • Ability to engage with both government and private sector stakeholders, and manage clients in alignment with business and security requirements.
  • Liaise with business and project stakeholders across selected projects as required to provide input and feedback during project delivery.
  • Oversight and management of projects allocated to you and your team.
  • Required visibility of the customer’s requirements, deliverables, and the ability to ensure the team deliver the output to the high Trustwave standard.

Other key responsibilities are Team Management and Mentoring, Project and Financial Management, and Quality Assurance.

Knowledge and experience

Behavioural Competencies:

  • Highly developed leadership and influencing skills
  • Self-awareness and exceptional ‘EQ’ and soft skills
  • Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate comfortably with large groups and executives, and to articulate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to collaborate, maintain working relationships with, and gain the trust of stakeholders throughout customer organisations
  • Developed ability to identify and develop above skills in others

Competencies:

  • High level ability to take the initiative, make informed and measured decisions and deliver outcomes from those decisions
  • The ability to analyse and simplify complex problems, evaluate them systematically, identify causal relationships and construct frameworks for problem solving
  • The ability to think ahead and establish an appropriate course of action, taking into account the constraints imposed on your own projects as well as other’s projects

Your Skills/Experience:

  • At least 5+ years of experience in information security or technical governance, operations or assurance type roles
  • 2+ years managerial experience in an information security leadership role
  • 2+ years of experience in selling information security services or solutions
  • Thorough understanding of risk management and how it relates to cyber security
  • Experience in an internal-advisory/external-consulting role utilising Federal Government PSPF & ISM Frameworks
  • Experience developing security risk assessments (SRA), System Security Plans (SSP), System Security Plan Annexes and other supporting documentation
  • Experience with unified communications, network management and contact centre technologies would be beneficial

Generally though, certifications /qualifications are nice to have. What we care about is what you know, and who you are. How you came to know it – whether via formal education, industry training and certification, self study, or the school of hard knocks -will be a good discussion point, but we don't necessarily favour one over the other.

 At Trustwave, everyone's experience is valued. We advocate Diversity of Thought, using diversity of experiences and perspectives to innovate and solve real world problems. Our people have studied at different universities, are self-taught, have worked in different companies in Australia, and around the world. Whoever you are, be comfortable, be different, be you, with us. Join Trustwave and together we’ll solve the cybersecurity challenges of today and into the future.

About Trustwave

Trustwave is a leading cybersecurity and managed security services provider that helps businesses fight cybercrime, protect data and reduce security risk. Offering a comprehensive portfolio of managed security services, security testing, consulting, technology solutions and cybersecurity education, Trustwave helps businesses embrace digital transformation securely. In Australia, Trustwave is comprised of the legacy Hivint team who have joined forces with Trustwave and Optus Cyber Security. For more information about Trustwave, visit https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/hivint/contact/

In return for your commitment, we will develop you personally and professionally in the company of competent colleagues, and you will have a professional development budget at your disposal each year for just that. We also want to recognise and reward your ongoing efforts and have a range of ways of doing that, from an annual bonus, flexible work arrangements, to cake ceremonies (we love cake) or a special night out.  But best of all, we’ll give you a hoodie and are happy for you to dress casually when working in the office.

Some of our perks:

  • Annual bonus
  • Cake ceremonies
  • $5k and 5 days' training / continued education allowance per year
  • Optus benefits (including monthly allowance for use with any mobile/broadband plan)
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Be a part of a collaborative and supportive team (you won’t feel alone!)
  • Career growth: receive mentoring, coaching, and support to progress your career
Job ID: oDughfwo
Employment Type: Other

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