Senior Cyber Security Risk Assurance Lead

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

27 Mar 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Cyber Security Risk Assurance Lead

Job Summary

A lead role performing Cyber Security Risk Assurance across a wide variety of Telstra projects that support our critical business objectives.

Job Description

Join our Networks team

At Telstra, we believe the more connected people are, the more opportunities they have. That's why we help create a brilliantly connected future for everyone, every day.

Our team in Global Networks and Technology extend our network superiority and enable our customers to evolve in a digitally driven world. We always ensure an always-on experience with world-leading technology.

What You'll Do 

This is an exciting opportunity for you to have a lead role performing Cyber Security Risk Assurance across a wide variety of Telstra projects that support our critical business objectives. Working closely with key business, cyber security, and project stakeholders, you will assess technical security outcomes and communicate this in a business risk context to help the business better understand their cyber exposure as it relates to their business, but also importantly helping deliver a positive cyber security outcome.

The Senior Cyber Security Risk Assurance Lead role sits within Cyber Security and plays a pivotal part in the end-to-end assessment of initiatives ensuring programs deliver their solutions in line with Telstra Cyber Security Standards and Requirements. You will assess complex technical security issues sourced from a range of services such as penetration testing, secure code, and architecture assessment, applying business context in the cyber risk assessment of those issues and ultimately communicating the cyber risk to business stakeholders for acceptance. Ultimately, it is your endorsement which matters, so experience in similar roles where making decisions, managing stakeholder expectations, and assessment of cyber risk is highly regarded.

Your 10+ years of experience across any of cyber security architecture, testing, assurance combined with your experience with cyber risk will give you the ability to identify, assess, and importantly challenge where required any cyber security-related issue. The cyber risk outcome you deliver will not only help our business understand, anticipate, and respond to security threats, it will allow them to position themselves better to manage cyber risk within defined risk thresholds and direct effort and invest in the most effective activities.

Key to this role is the ability to make cyber security decisions, lead the end-to-end cyber risk assessment of engagements, and being able to clearly convey complex technical security-related concepts and arguments to your peers and business stakeholders whilst tailoring messages to cater for different audiences as needed. You will also be involved in the management of key programs and responsible for the continual uplift of the Cyber Security Risk Assurance team process, procedures, and engagement model as required.

About You

• Leading cyber security assessments of Telstra projects in line with the Telstra Enterprise Risk Framework against Cyber Security and other Telstra and Industry Standards.

• Liaising with senior business stakeholders and other cyber security teams, problem-solving and communicating cyber risk, presenting, and assisting with improvement opportunities as they arise.

• Identifying and assisting in implementing efficiencies in the end-to-end process of cyber security risk assessments.

• Working both in a team and as an individual contributor.

• Contributing to and uplifting Team processes and procedural documentation.

Essential Experience

• At least 10 years in a Cyber Security related discipline - preferably gained through a variety of large and complex environments.

• Experience performing Cyber Security Risk Assessments that are based on demonstrable technical related experience with at least some being hands-on.

• Knowledge of common industry and government Cyber Security and related Guidelines and Standards e.g., ISO, PCI, NIST, E8.

Other Experience

• Experience with security architecture, design, and/or delivery of cyber security-related solutions.

Our perks & benefits:

• Work-life integration - we understand life happens when you're busy making other plans, so we offer flexibility around where, and when you work.

• 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary carers.

• Professional development program.

• An epic (free) Telstra mobile phone plan.

• Laptop/Device allowance renewed every 2 years.

• Purchased Annual Leave scheme.

• Discounted Telstra products and services

If this opportunity sounds like a perfect fit for you, we'd encourage you to apply!

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