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• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Parramatta or Orange office location with flexible working supported
• Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $149,739 to $173,174 + super

What’s in it for me?

Join our team for a fantastic culture with dynamic collaboration and genuine long-term career support. We offer flexibility in work arrangements, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritise work/life balance and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

The role

As Lead Security Analyst (Blue Team), you will provide technical and operational leadership in guiding how the Department detects, investigates, and responds to cyber threats. You will set direction for threat hunting, detection engineering, and threat intelligence, ensuring monitoring capabilities evolve to address emerging risks. You will lead the team through the full incident lifecycle and drive continuous improvement of playbooks, Standard Operating Procedures, and response processes to strengthen detection quality and response effectiveness.

Day to day, you will navigate a fast-changing threat landscape, balancing workloads across a busy analyst team, and improving how critical systems feed into monitoring and detection. You also work closely with business teams, refine detection strategies, and keep the team focused on delivering accurate, timely responses to complex security events. 

For more information read the full Role Description:  Lead Security Analyst

What you will bring to the role

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively convey ideas and collaborate with team members.
• Strong problem-solving abilities to navigate complex challenges and adapt to evolving situations.
• Proven leadership qualities, including the ability to motivate and inspire others to achieve shared goals.
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Maintains meticulous attention to detail amidst high-volume workloads, ensuring accuracy and precision in all tasks and deliverables.

Key Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience in security operations, including advanced incident analysis, threat detection and threat hunting.
• Strong capability with SIEM, EDR, email security, logging and threat intelligence tools, including tuning and optimisation.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate technical incident response, including triage, containment and root cause analysis.
• Experience developing and improving operational processes, playbooks, SOPs and detection rules.
• Experience mentoring analysts and providing technical leadership and peer review.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret threat intelligence and translate risks into actionable detection and response measures.
• Good understanding of cyber security governance, standards and regulatory requirements.

About us

The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities. 

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

Join us

If excited by the information above, we look forward to receiving your application, including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability for the role.

Applications close 11:55pm Thursday 25^th March 2026

Should you require further information about the role please contact Natasha Scott, Chief Information Security Officer at natasha.scott@dpie.nsw.gov.au

To enhance your account security, PageUp is introducing two-factor authentication (2FA). You can follow the step by step guide here. If you experience any issues please reach out on (02) 6363 7676 - HR Support, option 2, DPHI People Advisory, option 1.

A talent pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

Please note to be eligible to apply for this position you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, or hold a valid Australian working Visa for the duration of the appointment. 

We encourage and support applications from people with disability. Please reach out to us to discuss any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed during the recruitment process, ensuring that you have every opportunity to showcase your talent, skills, and potential. Contact the Talent Team via talent.acquisition@dpie.nsw.gov.au or (02) 6363 7676​ - HR Support, option 2, DPHI People Advisory, option 1 and reference 'Request an Adjustment - Job Title and Reference Number'.

Check out our Aboriginal applicants guide to assist with applying for the role or contact our Aboriginal Career pathways team for a yarn.