Senior Security Operations Specialist (APS6)

The Security Operations Engineer will provide hands-on operational capability to actively monitor, detect, and respond to cyber threats, leveraging platforms such Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. This role will develop detection use cases, investigate alerts, and continuously improve the branch’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber incidents during both the planning and design phases and once the system is operational.

Note: This is a strongly hands-on technical capability role rather than a primarily operational or coordination-focused function.

The client’s Digital ID System is a key component of Australia’s broader digital transformation and is designed to strengthen the growing digital economy in two main ways:

1.   It enables secure, convenient, voluntary, and inclusive methods of verifying identity in online transactions across both public and private sectors, while protecting the privacy and security of personal information.