- Cyber Security Manager
- Location: Brighton, Melbourne, VIC
- Role Type: Full‑Time, Permanent
- Salary Range: $200K to $224K including super
- Amazing water facing office views and the opportunity to work with a highly regarded leader.
- Opportunity: Join a growing team within an independent infrastructure investment management firm, supporting critical energy and infrastructure assets across Australia.
- The role plays a key part in shaping and uplifting the organisation’s cyber security posture, working closely with senior leadership, asset operators, and external partners to safeguard high‑value operational environments.
Job Description
Role and Responsibilities
- Extend and maintain a cyber security advisory practice providing expert strategic and technical cyber security advice to influence decision makers, ensuring that compliant and effective cyber security strategy, frameworks, policies, standards and guidelines are in place.
- Reguatory Compliance — Keep the organisation aligned with SOCI Act and AEMO NEM/NER obligations, maintain AESCSF SP‑1 compliance, and close any gaps across the environment.
- Risk Management — Own the cyber risk register, manage the cyber domain of the CIRMP, and brief the Risk & Governance Committee monthly on posture, incidents and exposures.
- Standards & Governance — Update and uplift cyber standards to match AESCSF practices, and oversee any deviations with clear risk and mitigation actions.
- Security Architecture — Provide architectural guidance across capital projects, define requirements for new critical infrastructure builds (including BESS and SCADA), and shape secure design solutions with engineering partners.
- Threat Monitoring & Response — Oversee the external SOC, track threats and vulnerabilities, and lead incident response including regulator reporting under SOCI and AEMO requirements.
- Third ‑ Party Security — Manage risks tied to overseas O&M remote access and assess supplier security maturity against internal and international standards.
Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with developing or maintaining a cyber security framework aligning with AESCSF and the SOCI Act will be preferred
- Minimum 10 years relevant experience in cyber security
- This is a hands on Cyber Security Manager role with a small, specialised team.
- Strong communication skills to ensure key business stakeholders are properly engaged
- Experience in the energy and physical infrastructure sectors, including on‑site experience with operational energy assets, will be preferred
- Able to communicate effectively (spoken and written) in English
- Industry‑recognised cyber certifications will be advantageous
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If you are keen to learn more, feel free to give me a call on 📱03 8080 7260 or send your resume to 📎nick.reddy@peoplebank.com.au. Alternatively, you can reach Nitin directly at 📱0433 212 134.
We are always keen to connect with talented professionals, referrals are highly encouraged and appreciated.
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