Security Engineer
Job No:
GRC990
Location:
Gympie, Queensland
- A varied and challenging role responsible for ensuring the security and resilience of Council infrastructure is maintained.
- Competitive annual salary range from $88,984 - $104,090 plus superannuation (dependent of skills and experience)
- Great range of additional benefits, including health and wellness programs, salary sacrifice options, salary packaging arrangements and a fortnightly RDO
About the Region
Gympie is at the heart of a rapidly expanding region which stretches from rural valleys in our western reaches to the Cooloola Coast, gateway to spectacular Fraser Island. Bordering Noosa and Fraser Coast Local Government areas, we are uniquely positioned to grow whilst still retaining our country charm. Our borders with North and South Burnett, and the Somerset Local Government areas link with our rural lifestyle, where you can enjoy our picturesque smaller townships, or our abundant local history. Our local festivals such as the Gympie Music Muster are renowned both nationally and internationally.
For someone seeking a high quality of life, with pristine natural areas and spectacular beaches, all within reach of Noosa, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, we are offering this unique opportunity.
Security Engineer
Remuneration: Annual salary range from $88,984 - $104,090 plus superannuation (dependent on skills and experience)
Closing Date: Thursday 16 February 2023 at 11.00pm AEST ***Extended closing date***
No late applications will be accepted. Only applications received via Council's online application system will be considered. Unsolicited applications from agencies will not be considered.
Role Overview
This stimulating new role will be responsible for ensuring the security and resilience of Council infrastructure is maintained through deploying, administrating, monitoring, managing and patching appliances and operating systems. The role will also be responsible for auditing and compliance of security policy and controls, and ensuring that Cybersecurity playbooks, processes and plans remain up-to-date and current, along with the continuous improvement of the cyber security posture.
The role will also need to support the ICT Infrastructure Engineer in maintaining council’s network and server infrastructure.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
- Verify servers are designed, configured with security controls and monitored before release into production and on an ongoing basis to ensure adequate infrastructure protection.
- Grant, monitor, and remove access to the cloud/infrastructure environment according to company policy.
- Managing the currency, integrity, monitoring and appropriate alerting of security appliances and technology within Gympie Regional Council.
- Monitor and assess the environment for vulnerabilities and apply patches according to its criticality and schedule.
- Participate in incident response planning, training and implementation. Respond/support response to security incidents as needed.
- Participate in Business Continuity activities and maintain, test and update the Disaster Recovery plan as needed. Maintain backup schedule as planned.
- Ensuring that disaster recovery plans are maintained and tested against a variety of Disaster scenarios and implementing strategies that ensure resilience and availability of critical systems, and patching is maintained and optimised
- Collaborating with different technical teams across the ICT team to identify and mitigate or monitor unusual or malicious activities
- Advising, leading and implementing as required new controls, processes, playbooks and technology to maintain and uplift the overall maturity as and when the time comes.
What we are looking for
To be successful in this position, candidates should have:
- A tertiary qualification in an IT discipline and/or years' work experience in an IT related role that included security functions and duties
- Industry specific certification in Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Relevant technology certifications across the Infrastructure landscape (Cisco, Microsoft)
- Experience in enterprise and hybrid technology environments
- Good understanding of Cyber Security Frameworks
- Cloud Security – Hands on experience in managing the following cloud applications
- Endpoint EDR/XDR - Microsoft Defender and Endpoint Manager (intune) ecosystems
- Server EDR/XDR – Trend Micro
- Email and content filtering – Microsoft Defender, CISCO Umbrella
- Exchange Online - Hands on experience in managing Exchange Online
- Active Directory – Hands on experience with Azure AD and on-premises Active Directory
- Firewall – Demonstrated Firewall configuration and design
- Ability to understand and disseminate industry terminology and concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience within IT and OT environments highly desired
- Working knowledge in uplift and maintenance of SIEM platforms
- Excellent understanding of security within the different layers of the IT Landscape.
- Understanding of ISO 27001 security standards
- Experience in documenting designs, executive and technical reports, proposals, statement of work and as built guides
- Experience in supporting large, critical and complex business environments governed by ITSM/ITIL framework
- Experience with Email Security
- Experience in working with AWS, Azure, M365, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V etc, cloud and virtual environments (highly desirable)
- Strong analytical and communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to work autonomously and under high pressure environment with strict SLAs and project deadlines
- Outstanding customer service skills
- Continuous improvement mindset
Position Description
For a full position description containing essential and desirable criteria, please click here.
Who to Contact
For information regarding the requirements of this role, please contact Peter Bailey, Coordinator ICT Operations on 5481 0959 or email peter.bailey@gympie.qld.gov.au
For assistance lodging your application using Council's online system, please contact Rowena Chapman, Senior Officer Human Resources on 5481 0687 or email rowena.chapman@gympie.qld.gov.au
What we offer?
- Nine day fortnight/ten day fortnight/flexible work hours
- Access to employee health and well-being programs
- Fitness Passport: work out at over 25 local gyms for you and your family at a subsidised rate
- Long service leave after seven years
- Generous superannuation scheme of up to 13 per cent
- Access to salary sacrificing and salary packaging arrangements
- Employee assistance program offering free confidential counselling services for employees and their families.
Our Values
- Accountability
- Communication
- Customer Service Focused
- Integrity
- Teamwork and Collaboration
For a full explanation of our values please click here. You will be assessed on your understanding of these values and how you have applied values such as these in your previous employment.
Our Process
Successful applicants will be required to undertake various checks such as skills, qualifications, reference, medical and national police.
Keen to apply
Keen to apply? Simply follow the instructions below:
1) Download and review the position description above
2) Complete the information below, as requested (please use an individualised email address as using another person's may effect your application, if you do not have one please follow this link to create a Gmail account)
3) Click 'APPLY'
4) Attach your resume, covering letter and a single document containing copies of your qualifications, licences or tickets as applicable.
5) Click 'NEXT' and 'CONFIRM'
Please note before continuing: It is advisable that you prepare your responses in a separate word or text document, saving your work as you go and that you then copy and paste this prepared information in the form before completing the application process. Please keep your responses to a maximum 300 words for each question.
Applications close on Thursday 16 February 2023 at 11.00pm AEST. No late applications will be accepted. Only applications received via Council's online application system will be considered.