Job Description

A state government department is looking for a Principal Security specialist to start ASAP on a 2 years fixed term contract. Some of the benefits aside from the usual government ones include flexible working and the ability to bulk out your state government network by being on of the main PoC's for the whole of government on this project.
Key responsibilities

As the Principal Security Specialist in Information Security Services, you will be providing a broad range of opportunities in security initiatives, security infrastructure technology services, security incident management and security risk assessments to clients, depending on your skillset and career aspirations.
Our security operations services are in a 24 hours a day / 7 days a week on-call environment, where after hours support is provided through automated tools and the required rostered on-call support staff.
Reporting directly to the Director, Information Security Services, you have the opportunity to combine your technical skills with consultancy and/or project management depending on client requirements and your own personal aspiration.

The below is a list of high-level responsibilities for this role:
• Provide technical leadership to drive the innovative solution development and continuous security service improvement to the clients.
• Manage and lead the security operations and fee for service delivery to the clients.
• Drive the continuous operational improvement to achieve efficiency and better customer satisfaction.
• Implement or uplift the existing security incident and event management (SIEM) solution, such as Splunk or other new SIEM solution.
• Manage and lead security incident management process.
• Build collaborative working relationships with clients and staff to deliver customer centric services
• Undertake other tasks/domains within Information Security Services as  required.

About you
We recognise and celebrate that everyone is unique and seek the applicant best suited to the role. We will assess your experience, knowledge and acquired skills, as well as your potential for development and your personal qualities. To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:
Mandatory qualifications and conditions
• Nil
Requirements of the role
• Demonstrate sufficient technical competencies in the below Technical Competencies
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement, interpersonal skills and critical thinking skills to consult, negotiate and influence clients, vendors, internal teams and staff to achieve outcomes.
• An ability and professional drive to rapidly acquire skills in new security technologies such as Zero Trust processes and technologies, especially related to Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions, new firewall management solutions and SIEM solutions.
• Passion and commitment to lead and drive continuous improvement in service delivery.
• Adequate organization and management skills to lead a team of technical specialists.
Highly Desirable Technical Competencies (one or more of the below)
• Sufficient knowledge and experiences in firewalls, DNS and other security technologies, such as Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint and Splunk.
• Security incident management processes, SIEM solutions (e.g Splunk, Sentinel) or SOC function
• Sound knowledge and experiences in network security architecture
• Adequate experiences in Redhat Linux and/or Microsoft Windows server management