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• Employment Type: 6 month day rate contract, Cyber, UNSW IT
• Location: Kensington campus in Sydney NSW (Hybrid Flexible Working) minimum 2 days in the office.

About UNSW:

UNSW is a leading global university with a diverse and talented community committed to purposeful, impactful work. Ranked among the world’s top 50 universities, and a member of Australia’s group of Eight, UNSW is known for excellence in education, research and innovation.

As the Cyber Security Architect - Patterns and Blueprints you will be responsible for conducting security architecture assessments of UNSW technology projects, as a lead part of the cyber security architecture governance function. This role will work across major and strategic technology initiatives, will partner with the UNSW Enterprise Architecture function, and participate in the Solution Review Group (SRG) to provide high-level expert advice on architectural non-compliances, gaps, architectural debts, risks, and issues to help SRG make informed decisions.

Specific accountabilities for this role include:

• Review new and existing projects for cyber security architecture compliance by developing, documenting, and communicating adherence to UNSW Cyber Security policies and standards, architecture principles, blueprints and patterns.
• Provide high-level expertise, guidance and support to solution architects, designers and project teams in the development, communication and full lifecycle management of enterprise-wide and strategically aligned cyber security architectures.
• Identify security architecture non-compliances, gaps, issues, and architectural technical debts in existing and proposed architectures, leading the prioritisation of and recommending changes or enhancements.
• Deliver high quality security architecture assessment reports for projects and provide approvals within defined SLA timeframes, exercising delegated authority where appropriate.
• Collaborate and work closely with Cyber Security Risk Advisory team to highlight any risks or issues identified during the security architecture assessment phase and provide strategic advice on additional controls required to be assessed, implemented and/or tested during the security design review and assurance phases of Cyber Security Risk Assessment (CSRA) process.
• Represent Cyber Security team at the Solutions Review Group (SRG) and provide CSRA architecture review approval status of projects, including influencing governance outcomes and decisions.
• Ensure current and future-state security architecture requirements are embedded into the solution architecture and design template.
• Proactively identify, escalate and manage any potential risks and ensure security is appropriately addressed across portfolios and programs.
• Assist in the development of high-level and detailed security requirements relating to project initiatives and security service catalogue, including contributing to enterprise security strategy.
• Proactively identify any policy and standard gaps and lead or contribute to change requests and implementation.
• Understand and track emerging threats and technologies and asses their relevance to security architecture, and organisational impact.

Who you are:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field with minimum 7 years’ experience in Cyber Security and at least 3-5 years’ experience in security solution architecture, security engineering or in a security governance advisory/consultant role operating at an enterprise level.
• Experience with security tools and technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, endpoint protection, etc, with demonstrated application in complex enterprise environments.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in cloud security including security compliance in Azure and AWS, across large-scale or multi-domain environments.
• Relevant industry certification(s) e.g. CISSP, TOGAF, AWS, Azure and/or relevant industry experience is highly desired.
• Knowledge of relevant industry frameworks relating to Operational Technology and Cyber Security (i.e. NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 31000, MITRE, OWASP, etc).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; along with the ability to influence, negotiate, consult and persuade senior stakeholders in a business and technical environment.
• Proven technical and interpersonal skills to develop sound and strategic communications options

To Apply: If this is of interest to you, please submit your CV, Cover Letter and responses to the who you are section.  Cyber Security Architect.docx

More Information:  https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/

Contact

Kim Symons, Talent Partner

k.symons@unsw.edu.au 

Applications close: Tuesday 6^th October 11.30pm

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.

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