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Cyber Security GRC Consultant

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Description

We are seeking a Cyber Security GRC Consultant to join our team on a full-time basis. As a GRC Analyst, you will provide Cyber Security advice and oversight across the delivery and sustainment of Defence ICT capabilities, ensuring alignment with IT security standards, risk frameworks, and compliance requirements.

You will work closely with the Security team, architects, engineers, and delivery teams to ensure Security principles and governance is embedded throughout the technology lifecycle,from design through to its transition to operations and throughout the capability’s sustainment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide IT Security leadership and oversight across key ICT capabilities
  • Develop and review IT Security governance and compliance documentation
  • Ensure alignment with Defence security requirements and Authorisation to Operate frameworks
  • Conduct and support IT Security reviews and assurance activities of key ICT capabilities
  • Identify, assess, and manage Cyber Security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps
  • Provide guidance on IT security controls, governance frameworks, and compliance obligations
  • Support IRAP and embedded assessors undertaking any assurance processes
  • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure Cyber Security compliance is integrated into solution design and delivery
  • Contribute to evidence generation to support Commonwealth acceptance and assurance activities

What You'll Bring to Make an Impact:

  • Proven experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) within ICT or government environments
  • Strong understanding of security frameworks, risk management, and compliance practices
  • Experience supporting Security authorisation and assurance processes in regulated environments
  • Ability to review and interpret technical designs from a Security governance and risk perspective
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with ability to communicate risk, compliance, and assurance concepts
  • Experience working across multidisciplinary delivery teams

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

  • Governance
  • Risk and Compliance
  • GRC
  • ICT
  • government environments
  • security frameworks
  • risk management
  • compliance practices
  • Security authorisation
  • assurance processes
  • regulated environments
  • technical designs
  • Security governance
  • risk perspective
  • stakeholder engagement
  • multidisciplinary delivery teams

Nice to have

  • Experience within Defence or national security environments
  • Exposure to secure ICT systems
  • networks
  • geospatial capabilities
  • Familiarity with security control frameworks
  • audit processes
  • Experience supporting system integration and delivery in government environments
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