# Cyber Security Leader

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. The Mission Software Systems (MSS) team brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle.

In this role, you will provide security leadership across the design, delivery, and operation of complex systems. You will integrate security considerations into engineering decisions, coordinate assurance activities, and help teams understand and manage security risk throughout the system lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain security plans, risk assessments, control requirements, and assurance evidence.

- Advise architects, engineers, and project leaders on secure design, implementation, and operational practices.

- Coordinate vulnerability, compliance, and security review activities, ensuring findings are prioritised and addressed.

- Engage customers, technical authorities, and governance forums to communicate security posture, risks, and remediation progress.

Requirements:

- Experience leading or coordinating cyber security activities in technology or engineering environments.

- Knowledge of security risk management, governance, controls, and assurance practices.

- Experience reviewing architectures, system designs, or technical implementations from a security perspective.

- Capability in vulnerability management, remediation planning, and security issue resolution.

- Ability to prepare security documentation and communicate risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Experience working across project, engineering, and operational teams.

- Familiarity and experience with accrediting systems against the ISM and other applicable security standards.

Benefits:

- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.

- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

## Skills

### Required
- cyber security
- security risk management
- governance
- controls
- assurance practices
- vulnerability management
- remediation planning
- security issue resolution

### Nice to have
- cloud security
- network security
- application security
- operational technology security
- cyber security certification

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