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Cyber Security
Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
Telstra
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Melbourne • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Senior
Tech Stack
Cyber Security
About the role
- Establish and maintain strong partnerships with Group & Technical Product Owners to align on evolving priorities, expectations, and strategic outcomes
- Champion effective cybersecurity communication across internal business units, fostering a culture of security awareness and collaboration
- Stay actively involved in mission-critical security assessments, ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards and risk posture
- Identify and eliminate barriers that impede streamlined cybersecurity assessments, driving continuous improvement in assessment processes
- Lead multi-service security engagements, acting as the single point of contact from initiation through to successful completion
- Interpret residual security risks and recommend appropriate treatments based on industry best practices and Telstra’s risk framework
- Collaborate with Risk peers to conduct additional Security Risk Assurance assessments for engagements meeting defined criteria prior to Operational Security Compliance reviews
- Provide strategic advice on people, process, and technology security controls across missions, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide security objectives
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of recent, relevant experience in: Cybersecurity operations and risk management
- Minimum 5 years of recent, relevant experience in: Business process reengineering
- Minimum 5 years of recent, relevant experience in: Operational process development and continuous improvement
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and promote a positive, enterprise-wide security culture
- Proven project management, multitasking, and organizational skills
- High-level theoretical and practical knowledge of security principles, frameworks, and technologies
- Solid understanding of current trends in the cybersecurity threat landscape
- Relevant university-level qualification in cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field
- Desirable certifications: CompTIA Security+; (ISC)² SSCP; ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamentals; GIAC GSEC; Microsoft SC-900; Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate
- Candidates will undergo a background check as part of the hiring process
Benefits
- Performance-related pay
- Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
- Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
- Purchased annual leave scheme
- Additional Telstra day off
- Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
- Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)
- We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you.
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Hard skills
cybersecurity operationsrisk managementbusiness process reengineeringoperational process developmentcontinuous improvementsecurity principlessecurity frameworkssecurity technologiesproject managementmultitasking
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationcollaborationorganizational skillspositive security culture
Certifications
CompTIA Security+(ISC)² SSCPISACA Cybersecurity FundamentalsGIAC GSECMicrosoft SC-900Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate