Operational Security Advisor

3 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Type**: Permanent Hours: Full Time Location: Wellington Business Group: Technology Services and Solutions Branch: Organisational Capability and Services Salary: $102,264 - $137,545
We are looking for an experienced IT Security Advisor with experience in working in cloud and hybrid environments. Be part of a small, high-trust team with a wide range of responsibilities working across our entire organisation where your opinion and advice is highly valued. Be prepared to provide cyber security support for a variety of functions from incident management and operational matters to policy advice and project support.
Working at the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of New Zealanders. We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.
The Perks
- Education and upskilling opportunities to grow professionally
- Working with industry-leading security technologies
- A flexible working environment where you can find the right balance of working some days on-site and other days working from home

What we do
You will be part of a small ICT security team in our Technology Services and Solutions Group that provides IT security advice and support to our core networks and infrastructure, as well as large programme initiatives. Technology Services and Solutions Group sits within Organisational Capability and Services, a branch dedicated to supporting the success of the Department by providing corporate services that helps business groups and people within DIA to make the best contribution to New Zealand.

**Experience**:

- Proven experience in an ICT security related role highly desirable, although being able to demonstrate knowledge of how to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in a network would suffice
- Experience working with common SIEM query languages (e.g. KQL, Splunk SPL etc.) would be highly desirable
- Knowledge of Azure services and concepts

**Skills**:

- Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to translate ICT security information into appropriate language for the business
- Critical thinking skills to develop or evaluate security standards, procedures and measures.

**Other requirements**:

- NZ Citizen
- ICT related bachelor's degree or proven experience in an ICT role
- Security orientated certification / qualification highly desirable
- Ability to be part of an out of hours support roster for security operations centre functions
- Ability to obtain and maintain a New Zealand Government Security classification

If you want to join a team of intelligent, committed people who do some fairly spectacular work for New Zealand - then make sure you get in touch.
We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.



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