At Leidos, we do work that really matters inspired by our mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. With 25 years of local experience, our 2000 team members, work together to solve Australia’s toughest challenges in government, defence, intelligence and border protection. 

We've got so much to offer at Leidos, here are a just a few of the Benefits we provide our team:

• Flexible work arrangements to support work life balance enabling you to feel supported and achieve balance.
• 12 Extra Days Leave: Life Days are the Leidos way of recognising that we all need some extra time out to take care of life.  By working slightly more than the minimum weekly hours (2 hours per week for full timers) you can accrue up to an extra 12 days leave per year.
• Professional development and support to set you up for success and assist you in achieving your career aspirations. 

Leidos Australia have a permanent full-time opportunity with hybrid work arrangements for a Security Operations Analyst to join our team who provide security operations and incident response capability to our client. Working within our Monday to Friday 7am – 7pm, Security Operations Centre based in Canberra your role will include -

• Analyse IT security events and large data sets for incident response, remediation functions and supporting investigations.
• Identify, monitor, and report security vulnerabilities for remediation or patching to the relevant teams.
• Apply cyber security knowledge and understanding of use cases to detect potential anomalous ICT activity.
• Utilise cyber tools to perform monitoring and the creation of detection rules that identify cyber security events of interest.
• Generate reliable and detailed reporting of security incidents while accurately communicating the risk and impact of a security incident to relevant stakeholders.
• Create and maintain technical and procedural documents that relate to SOC functioning.

Here are some of the criteria that we think will bring success to the role. Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes - if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

• Demonstrated experience in Incident management and response with relevant experience operating in an Australian Government environment.
• Experience performing network traffic analysis utilising raw packet data, net flow, IDS’ and Firewall logs/concepts.
• Understanding of ISM, PSPF and DSPF policies in the cyber security context.
• Experience reviewing threat data from various sources.
• Ability to create and maintain technical and procedural documents that relate to the SOC functioning.
• Motivated to contribute to the team’s performance metrics, to educate staff on cyber security requirements, good practice and collaborate to improve overall performance.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen, hold and maintain a minimum NV-1 level Australian security clearance, and successful completion of an Organisational Suitability Assessment.

We’ve been keeping Australia safer, healthier, and more efficient for 25 years, here’s just three ways how:

• We work with the Australian Department of Defence to design and operate the cyber security tools used across the Army, Navy and Airforce.
• We support over 26,000 ATO users for their end user technology needs.
• We deliver software development and operational support through to the integration of underwater autonomous vehicles and survey ships to meet mission objectives.

Successful candidates will be required to be Australian Citizen and hold and maintain an NV1 Australian Government Security Clearance, you may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.

At Leidos, we embrace diversity and are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.