Principal Cybersecurity Analyst (Splunk) - Federal Government

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What you’ll be doing...
 

The Principal Cybersecurity Analyst plays a vital role in national security by partnering with security staff at a Federal Government site. This position is central to the continuous monitoring, detection, and response management of suspicious and malicious gateway activity. You will serve as the functional team lead and main point of contact for the Cybersecurity Analyst team addressing daily action items and fulfilling priority customer requests, delivering essential security outputs and implementing tuning instructions to ensure adaptation to the constantly evolving threat landscape while adopting and maintaining security methodologies and procedures that align with customer requirements.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Functionally leading a team of Senior Cybersecurity Analysts while overseeing quality and workload management.

• Tune the SIEM tool (Splunk) security policy with use cases, threat libraries, and watch list details.

• Collaborate with customers and be the subject matter expert to define application and log onboarding requirements.

• Facilitate discussions to offer guidance in meeting organizational best practices.

• Incorporate asset landscape and severity ranking into log ingestion requirements.

• Execute threat analysis and incident investigations.

• Develop guidance on mitigation strategies and defense techniques relative to global trends.

What we’re looking for...

You enjoy developing resolutions to complex problems that require the use of creativity and making decisions that impact projects and all stakeholders.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Proven experience in functionally leading teams and ensuring effective customer issue resolution.

• Experience in SIEM Splunk analytics including dashboard development and use case configuration.

• Experience in Federal Government Security Operation Centre processes. 

• Knowledge of incident response structures and malware identification.

• Understanding of modern network and cloud technologies.

• Minimum NV1 clearance through Australian Government Security Vetting Agency's (AGSVA).

• Ability to work on a tier 1 Federal Government Customer site and Verizon office in Canberra, five days a week (Monday to Friday).

• Ability to work on an on call basis. 

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/Information technology.

• Directly leading a team.

• SIEM and other Security certifications e.g. CISSP Certification or CISM.

• Knowledge of Cyber Security Frameworks such as NIST, ISO27001, Essential 

• Eight, PSPF, and ISM.

• Experience producing professional-level documentation in English.

• Experience in problem-solving and security analytics to identify process gaps.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Acknowledgement of Country...

Verizon acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to lands, waters, and communities and pays respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past and present.

Where you’ll be working

In this worksite-based role, you'll work onsite at a defined location(s).

Scheduled Weekly Hours

38

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.