Technical Cybersecurity Advisor

Our purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

Our team

We help our clients navigate and take control of digital disruption for their businesses and customers. Our Security Operations team, employ thought leaders who understand the business, technology and threat landscape and can apply their knowledge, creativity and expertise to provide and deliver strategies and solutions to help to take organisations and communities to a better and safer place. This is an exciting time of growth, and our driven team need to grow to meet the increased demand and activity.

About the Role

The Technical Cybersecurity Advisor, will be a member of our Australian Cybersecurity Operations Team located across Australia. You will primarily be responsible for security platforms and team infrastructure related activities in all environments.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about the Cybersecurity sector and is looking to build a career in this space who is capable of technically leading a team and able to pick up client processes quickly. You will have a solid understanding of concepts across multiple platforms including: Networks, firewalls, SIEM, Microsoft 365 products, and other technologies.

You will have at least 3+ years’ experience in an IT technical support related role and ideally have 2 years exposure to security technologies such as Microsoft Defender consoles, Microsoft Sentinel, Crowdstrike, Azure, Splunk and other network related tools.

It is vital you have a solid understanding of responding to Cybersecurity incidents and ITIL, with some exposure to analysing and resolving environmental and network problems.

What you’ll do

The core objectives and responsibilities of a Technical Cybersecurity Advisor includes the responsibility for maintaining a system or specific components of a system.

This includes:

• Platform security Incident response and analysis
• Vulnerability assessments
• Security alerting platforms & response to alerts raised
• Security platform configuration and health management
• Platform upgrades and roadmaps to meet N-1 or to customer requirements on security-specific platforms and tools
• Understanding Alerts use cases and associated processes for assessment
• Providing technical leadership and advice for the broader Cybersecurity Team.
• Action regular tasks and help define processes
• Review/ respond to alarms/tickets and escalations
• Provide mentorship and direction to the junior team members
• Security event analysis
• Identify policy changes required based on analysis
• Interface directly with the customer on a regular basis

What you’ll bring

• Ability and willingness to self-managing and be proactive
• Advanced understanding of tools, techniques and procedures that modern attackers use to compromise organizations
• A strong awareness and interest is emerging and existing Cybersecurity threats
• A customer centric approach ensuring consistency in delivery of service
• 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 systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods.
• Knowledge of organizational information technology (IT) user security policies (e.g., account creation, password rules, access control).
• Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
• Skills in Splunk and Sentinel are highly desirable and preference for these
• Security industry frameworks such as NIST 800-61, AUISM
• Cyber-attack methodologies and techniques such as MITRE and Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain and other common cybersecurity frameworks

Due to the nature of this particular role - You MUST be an Australian Citizen and must be able to obtain and maintain a baseline security clearance. We are not accepting overseas applications at this time but encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site for any opportunities.

Why Datacom?

We have over 6,500 people across our global offices and generate an annual revenue of over NZ $1.2 billion annually. This makes us one of Australasia’s largest professional IT services companies.

We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations.

With this comes a long list of significant clients and Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds to serve those clients.

We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.

Apply today and join a great team!