Cyber Security Controls Manager

• Lead strategic transformation, embedding robust security in all technology solutions and services
• Champion secure-by-design, advancing traditional cyber security practices
• Drive innovative programs prioritising continuous security improvement

Security by Design: Transforming Insignia Financials Technology Landscape

Insignia Financial is on an exciting journey in cyber security. With an engaged executive team and Cyber Security Leadership, we are seeking a passionate and driven Cyber Security Controls Manager to join our new and growing team. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of cyber security at Insignia Financial, where security is integral to everything we do. As a critical member of our team, your role involves integrating and validating security controls and requirements into the design and implementation of new projects and existing systems. Your expertise will cover all technologies, including on-premise, network, infrastructure, web, mobile, and increasingly cloud technologies. With a secure-by-design approach, you will oversee the verification of security controls throughout the technology life cycle, actively collaborating with various stakeholders to maintain a robust security posture.

The opportunity to join our team

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include building and leading a high-performing team of cyber security design and assurance experts, providing mentorship and guidance to help team members reach their full potential. You will work closely with project teams, developers, enterprise architects, and security architects to integrate security considerations into technology designs. As a champion of secure-by-design principles, you will ensure effective implementation of security controls throughout the technology life cycle. You will lead threat modelling and cyber security impact assessments for new projects and system changes, proactively identifying potential security weaknesses and developing mitigation strategies. Your oversight will extend to designing and implementing processes for verifying and validating the effectiveness of security controls across systems, applications, and infrastructure, including cloud platforms. Independent testing activities will ensure controls operate as intended and mitigate identified risks effectively.

Building strong relationships and collaborating with stakeholders, including project managers, technology teams, business leaders, and other cyber security teams, will be crucial. You will communicate security risks, requirements, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Partnering with the Vulnerability & Threat Management team, you will ensure vulnerabilities are identified and addressed during project design phases, while collaborating with the Offensive Security team to leverage targeted penetration testing and adversary simulations.

What you will bring

To thrive in this role, you will bring a deep understanding of network security, cloud security (focusing on AWS and GCP), application security, secure design principles, threat modelling methodologies, and risk assessment techniques. Your extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing security controls within complex technology environments, along with demonstrated leadership and team development skills will be essential. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure are crucial.

Your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills will enable effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders, and your solid understanding of project management methodologies will ensure timely delivery of project objectives. Staying current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies, and holding relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS, or GCP.

Find the better way

What gets us excited about working here? Helping people feel good about their money as one of Australia’s leading financial wellbeing organisations. From those starting out to those retiring. As your team, we’ll show up for you and together we will create financial wellbeing for every Australian. Because we know people who are confident about their financial future live better lives.

If this sounds like your kind of career, you sound like our kind of person. With us, you’ll do work that builds your technical know-how and challenges our entire industry to move forward. Along the way, you’ll be free to explore new ideas and technology, solve problems in a team, and independently to get great things done. Around here, we like to call it “putting our fingerprints on the future”.

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Deep expertise combined with creativity can take on the trickiest of problems. Join our team of brilliant minds and mentors as we explore our way to innovation and apply technology in more human ways than ever.

To Apply

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Applicants will be required to provide evidence of their eligibility to work in Australia, and at a minimum be required to undertake police and basic credit checks as a condition of employment.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be considered at this time.

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