Quick overview
Job description
- Progress with purpose at one of Australia's largest health care providers
- Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
- Offering hybrid and flexibility 6-Month Fixed Term Contract
The Senior Cyber Security Specialist, Detection and Incident Response is responsible for building, developing and implementing Cyber Security across Calvary. This role involves detecting, analysing, and responding to cyber threats whilst improving and maintaining operational security controls. As part of the Cyber Defence and Engineering team, you will create and lead initiatives for effective monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and security tooling operations across the enterprise.
This position plays a vital role in strengthening Calvary's cyber resilience. Ideally, you will have practical experience in developing, implementing, and building cyber security framework. You will have the opportunity to develop and oversee ongoing enhancements of a large and complex organisations ability to detect and respond to cyber threats.
Your main duties will include:- The development and implementation of security alerts across endpoint, identity, email, network, cloud and application environments.
- Building and leading operational threat intelligence and threat hunting activities, including intelligence analysis, indicator management threat-led detection development, MITRE ATT&CK coverage assessment and communication of relevant findings to exposure management, cyber risk and security leadership stakeholders.
- Creating and developing incident response activities, including analysis, containment, remediation coordination, recovery support and post-incident documentation.
- 5 years' experience in security operations, SOC, cyber security engineering, or a related operational security background.
- Specialist experience in creating and implementing the capability to monitor, triage and investigate security alerts in a large enterprise environment.
- Expert knowledge of incident response activities, including initial analysis, containment support, remediation coordination and post-incident documentation.
- Experience using security operations tools such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, email security, identity monitoring or vulnerability management platforms.
- Understanding of common cyber threats, attacker techniques and defensive practices, including awareness of frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
At Calvary, our staff matter.
With over 130 years' experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.
Your benefits:- NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
- Paid parental leave
- Training, development pathways and career opportunities
- Flexible hours that make sense for you
- As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
- You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role including COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis screening, hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, varicella
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