Security Architect

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Role highlights

• Shape CSIRO’s cyber security for major transformation programs
• Drive secure-by-design technology outcomes
• Influence security architecture and cyber resilience

 

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

 

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The opportunity 

Join CSIRO as a Cyber Security Architect and play a key role in securing two of our largest technology transformation programs. Working closely with program teams, delivery partners, architects and technology specialists, you'll provide expert security architecture advice and hands-on guidance to ensure solutions are secure by design.

 

You'll translate complex cyber security requirements into practical controls, risk treatments and assurance activities, while helping strengthen CSIRO's broader cyber resilience capability through security standards, architecture patterns and best-practice ways of working across the organisation.

 

High-level duties include

• Provide hands-on cyber security architecture and secure-by-design delivery support for the Cyber for CSIRO and Enterprise Service Transformation programmes.
• Act as the primary cyber security architecture and advisory contact for the two programmes, providing timely, practical and risk-based advice to programme teams, delivery partners, enterprise architects and platform owners.
• Review solution designs, architecture artefacts, technology proposals, procurement inputs and implementation approaches to identify security risks, control gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and document security architecture guidance, design decisions, control requirements, threat models, risk assessments, assurance activities and recommended treatments to support programme delivery.
• Translate cyber security requirements, standards and better practice guidance into practical delivery actions that can be implemented by project and technical teams.
• Embed security controls and assurance requirements across design, procurement, build, implementation, transition and operational handover activities.
• Support cyber security governance, architecture review and delivery checkpoint forums by providing clear advice on security risks, architecture decisions, exceptions, treatment plans and residual risk.

 

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Sydney (Lindfield), Melbourne (Clayton), Canberra (Black Mountain), Hobart (Sandy Bay), Adelaide (Waite), Brisbane – preferred location (St Lucia).

Salary: AU$135,571 – AU$158,863 per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Specified Term of 12 months  

Reference: 103890

 

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in cyber security, information technology, computer science, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive experience as a cyber security architect or senior security consultant delivering hands-on security architecture outcomes in complex technology environments.
• Current Australian Government NV1 security clearance.
• Demonstrated experience providing secure-by-design advice across major transformation programmes, including solution design review, control definition, risk assessment, threat modelling, assurance planning and secur