Senior Security Operations Lead

Company Description

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, competitive remuneration, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. You have the option for an additional 12 Days leave when you enrol into the Life Days Program.

Foster your career through complete access to mentoring and learning and development opportunities. Be part of a business with strong professional development with a track record of internal promotion and career transitions.

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Job Description

Your New Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to perform crucial, high value and comprehensive cybersecurity services to support and protect our personnel in the Australian Defence Forces.

The Senior Security Operations Lead role will be responsible for coordinating a 24x7 security operations capability, ensuring that our analysts are continuously developing professionally, enabled and engaged in their mission to proactively monitor our networks for threats.

This is a business hours based role that covers co-ordination of handovers between shifts, provides a technical escalation point and most importantly trains and mentors a team of enthusiastic analysts who are eager to learn and grow.

If you like sharing your knowledge and seeing the team grow and develop this is an excellent opportunity for you. The role is best suited for a motivated, self-starter who enjoys taking charge of problems and working to solve them.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinating our 24x7 monitoring capability ensuring activities are being conducted consistently across shifts and events are proactively responded to in a timely manner
• Providing consultative and technical advice to colleagues and stakeholders on cyber security operations
• Working closely with analysts to develop personalized professional development pathways
• Curating a suite of playbooks and documentation to capture processes and procedures
• Driving improvements to our capability through development of our monitoring tools including such artefacts as dashboards, rule creation and tuning, and custom SOAR components.
• Coordinating workflows through the maintenance and curation of ticketing queues for security operations
• Contributing to reporting on System Health Indicators for our environments and Key Performance Indicators for the delivery of our service

Please note:

• This role is based on a customer site and remote working options are limited. 
• This role is Monday to Friday, with flexible start and finish times

Qualifications

About You and What You'll Bring

Demonstrated experience:

• Working in defensive security operations roles, ideally in large enterprise environments
• Leading teams
• Developing and mentoring staff
• Common security operations tools such as SIEMs and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions
• Working with external stakeholders

And:

• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Relevant formal or industry qualifications
• A minimum current NV-1 clearance and a willingness to obtain and maintain an NV-2

Even better if you have experience…

• Working in Defence
• Working with ITSM systems
• Writing technical reports and other formal documentation
• Programming or scripting in powershell, python or other common languages

Additional Information

What You'll Love

Over the last year, we have successfully adapted our approach to enable everyone - whether working remotely from home, an office or a customer site – to continue to be collaborative, productive and, above all, safe and healthy. We proudly embrace diversity and support our people at every stage of their Leidos journey in terms of inclusion, accessibility and flexibility.

At Leidos, you will be valued, included and supported. So if you are open-minded and keen to Be the difference, we look forward to welcoming you.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.

Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.