Security lead

Canberra, Australia

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Company Description

Every person at Leidos plays an essential and valued role in bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers’ most complex problems. It’s how we help make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like our customers, we are passionate about. We’re open-minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work and be inspired by what they can achieve and impact.

Job Description

Your New Role

Working on a Federal Government project, a Governance, Risk and Compliance position is focused on providing project support for the delivery of secure, compliant and accredited classified systems. Specifically, the role will support the delivery of a development environment hosted on our partners cloud and on-prem infrastructure and include the following tasks:

  • Development of Security certification and accreditation documentation with the necessary activities, artefacts and stakeholder contributions required to complete the certification and accreditation process for the assigned projects and systems.
  • Ownership for the execution of the Accreditation process with reporting as required by the business, project, Certification Authority or other applicable stakeholders.
  • Engagement with key stakeholders to tailor the system scope and approach to delivering security controls, artefacts, risk identification and assessment, security testing and responsibility for risk treatment recommendations.
  • Consideration of and alignment with project schedules such that the certification and accreditation effort supports the business requirement to operate the subject system(s).
  • Advising engineering teams on secure development and engineering practices and tools.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum NV-1 level Australian security clearance.

Qualifications

The following experience is required for GRC personnel:

  • Delivering systems into strictly governed environments, such classified Federal Government networks and systems
  • Adopting security standards and frameworks, such as the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), Information Security Manual (ISM), and ISO 27001. 
  • Advocating for security and compliance requirements within the project and advocate for the project’s approach with external stakeholders. 
  • Communicating sensitive matters respectfully and professionally, enabling decision-makers to understand the security implications of their choices before delivering their decisions
  • Prioritise the importance of security and compliance matters in the context of the subject platform or system. 
  • Providing structural guidance to help project planning, documentation and delivery elements but maintain flexibility to support the delivery approach prescribed by the business.
  • Working in cloud environments and leveraging cloud security solutions and controls.
  • Working in a agile or dynamic project environment, such as Scrum, DevSecOps etc.

Additional Information

What you’ll love

Leidos is making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. This program will support one of our key national security customers to streamline their capability delivery processes. Our work will make our nation more efficient and secure.

This is a fast-growing business currently implementing a range of business improvement initiatives. You’ll have the chance to see some market-leading technologies implemented across the function and contribute to building further on the progressive work currently being developed. We offer a flexible working environment where it’s possible to design your ideal work week.

You’ll join a fun and friendly team that supports each other closely and loves celebrating together.

Tags: Agile Clearance Cloud Compliance DevSecOps Governance ISO 27001 Scrum Security Clearance

Perks/benefits: Flex hours Team events

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: Australia
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Category: Leadership Jobs

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