Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer *Aus Citizens only* No PR *No Work Visa* RFQ ID - LH-01651 RFQ closing date - Friday, 21 February 2025 Buyer - Department of Industry, Science and Resources Estimated start date - Saturday, 08 March 2025 Initial contract duration - 12 months Extension term - 12 months Number of extensions - 2 Maximum number of candidates per seller - 2 Location of work - ACT Working arrangements - Hybrid. Please note: Remote working arrangements may be considered on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the supervising manager, subject to business needs. Please indicate clearly in your response the candidates desired work location if outside ACT/Canberra. Maximum hours - 40 hours per week Security clearance - Must be able to obtain Baseline

Job details

The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) strives to encourage the sustainable growth of Australian industries including the delivery of a national innovation system to drive knowledge creation, international competitiveness and greater productivity. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) Division within the Enabling and Business Services Group of DISR provides a range of enabling services and operations delivery to the department and to Australian businesses and are seeking an experienced and motivated Cloud Security Engineer with a minimum of 5 years experience to assist with the management and development of the Departments Cloud security infrastructure.

Key duties and responsibilities

Cloud Security Engineers will be required to:

• Support security operations engineering projects within the Azure environment.
• Deploy cloud-based security services, process automations, reviews and general feature updates.
• Develop enterprise level detailed architecture documentation for Cloud based services.
• Develop high level solution architectures for cloud-based systems.
• Develop detailed architecture guidance for cloud engineers.
• Provide impact analysis of user/stakeholder requirements.
• Ensure that the enterprise and system solutions maintain adherence to whole-of-government standards.
• Provide technical guidance and input into the design and build of cloud-based systems.
• Liaise with cross-functional teams including business owners, scrum masters, business analysts, developers, enterprise architects & testers to produce solutions in accordance with stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Provide expertise and assistance in platform automation testing, continuous integration and deployment.
• Promote key enterprise architecture principles as applicable to cloud platforms re-use before buy/build, configure over customise, open data/access over siloed functionality.
• Promote and help ensure solutions align with the DTAs Digital Service Standard.
• Be strategic, a leader and influencer.
• Undertake additional duties as required.

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria

1. Cloud Security experience: Demonstrated experience 5yrs+ supporting security operations engineering projects within the Azure environment, including architecture documentation, deployment of services, process automation and reviews and general feature updates. Demonstrated experience in managing cloud-based security services such as Sentinel, MS Defender, SIEM solutions, Endpoint Protection services (EDR), Office 365, Data Loss Prevention tools, CASB, Vulnerability Scanning and Management.
2. Cloud experience: Demonstrated experience in cloud-based solution implementation with technologies including: Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure API Manager. Experience developing and deploying solutions using Azure DevOps and Visual Studio for code development and management of repositories, and deployments using CI/CD.
3. Cultural fit: Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams, including ability to work with technical and non-technical staff at all levels. Demonstrated ability to collaborate and mentor team members to promote team harmony.
4. Agile: Experience working with Agile Multi-disciplinary teams to deliver secure, user friendly and reliable solutions that meet stakeholder, citizen, and business expectations. Ability to pragmatically change direction and scope as new information is discovered and challenges or opportunities present themselves.

Desirable criteria

1. Demonstrated track record of technical leadership across project and operational tasks.
2. Demonstrated experience and understanding of cloud based technologies and architectures.
3. Demonstrated experience in application and integration, or infrastructure platform architecture.
4. Minimum 3 years experience designing and documenting architectures for large, complex enterprise systems.

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