CyberSecurity Engineer - 12 Month Fixed Term
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Our Why Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow. About the Role (your why) Our Cyber Security Platforms & Solutions Team help our clients to navigate and take control of digital disruption for their businesses across New Zealand and Australia, by building, maintaining and enhancing the platforms and solutions our Security Operations Centre use to keep them protected. We are looking for people with a passion for Cyber Security to join us, offering you the chance to boost your career with excellent development opportunities. This position is one of four; in this role your skills in Security Information Event Monitoring (SIEM) , preferably using tools such as Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, will see you initially working in a team, focused on this discipline, with the opportunity to learn skills in other security technologies, which will see you rotate into those areas over time, if you wish. You will be working within a team of passionate, innovative and engaging people, who focus on building, delivering and supporting the latest Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), Vulnerability Assessment (VA), Web Protection and Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) systems for Datacom Internal. This opportunity is open to anyone with experience in SIEM, your level of experience will be aligned to the work you undertake and your enthusiasm to grow will see you progress in the direction you choose. You will be supported and guided at any level of experience. What you’ll do You will help develop, manage and maintain our growing portfolio of service offerings, using technologies from Microsoft, Crowdstrike, Rapid 7 and Darktrace. You will help troubleshoot and resolve enquiries on the platforms, to ensure our Group Technology Cybersecurity team have functioning environments and tools to help keep our employees protected. If your experience aligns, you will be engaged to work on new deployments, supporting the Solution Delivery team to design and implement new solutions for the corporate base across New Zealand and Australia. At the moment, as Cybersecurity Engineer you will be focused on:
- Configuring and updating hardware and software
- Establishing and managing user accounts
- Overseeing or conducting backup and recovery tasks
- Implementing operational and technical security controls
- Datasource ingestion
- Troubleshooting, incident remediation
- Environment reviews
- Daily checks
- Implementing change requests
- Reporting & analysis
- Solution design & build
- Project acceptance testing
- Maintaining documentation
- Collaborating with internal teams
- Process optimization and technical standardization
- Adhering to organisational security policies and procedures.
- The ability to self-manage and prioritise your time.
- The maturity to independently manage your workflow and remain productive.
- The integrity to share the load with your team, stretching yourself to assist with complex tasks.
- The initiative to seek out answers and ask for help when needed.
- The honesty to put in a full days’ work, whilst working remotely.
- Operational experience in Cyber Security, alternatively, a strong background in Network, Server & Infrastructure engineering.
- An understanding of Cyber Security in an Operational or Professional Services environment.
- Platform and Application Management experience, managing and maintaining business critical systems in a production environment using ITIL Processes.
- Knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies' concepts and technologies.
- Knowledge of operating system command-line tools.
- Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques.
- Knowledge of organizational IT user security policies (e.g. account creation, password rules, access control).
- Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
- Knowledge of scripting, minimum PowerShell.
- Knowledge of measures or indicators of system performance and availability.
- Certifications in one or more of our core vendor technologies (desirable).
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