EL1 Assistant Director, Cyber Security Team

About the team:

Treasury’s Cyber Security team is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation, and transformation. The team works on a combination of long-term projects as well as providing time sensitive support. We use an agile process methodology to engage with customers and react to changing requirements quickly.

About the role:

As an Assistant Director, you will be provided with unique opportunities to undertake challenging and rewarding work that contribute to maintaining Treasury’s cyber security resilience. Once in the role, you will develop collaborative relationships across the organisation, wider government, and industry partners to provide timely advice to Treasury leadership on progressing the agency’s interests.

The role will be within a multi-disciplinary team aimed at ensuring the business of the Treasury is conducted in a secure manner whilst maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Treasury’s Information. To achieve our mission of embed secure by design, we want people with strong integrity, agility, curiosity, imagination, resilience, and creativity.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have governance, risk & compliance, security operations, and strong stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Be passionate about cyber security, work well with changing priorities, can manage their workload, and make sound, reason-based decisions.
• Be skilled and proactive, keen to put their experience and knowledge into practice to help defend Treasury’s environment against current and future cyber threats.
• Have established communication skills, be passionate about cyber security, and have experience in their chosen field.
• Be a high performing individual with a passion for defending against cyber threats through the three pillars of technology, processes, and people.
• Have demonstrated skills and experience in their chosen field and the ability to quickly acquire and comprehend new concepts.
• Can engage with a variety of stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) to determine their needs and ensure output is fit-for-purpose.
• Work collaboratively as part of a team.

Eligibility:

• Citizenship - To be eligible for employment with Treasury, applications must be an Australian citizen.
• Security Clearance - The preferred applicant will be required to successfully undergo the security clearance vetting process at the Negative Vetting 1 clearance level. The preferred applicant must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information.

It is a condition of employment that applicants are willing and able to obtain and maintain the requisite security clearance for the duration of their employment with Treasury.