- 100% Cybersecurity focused opportunities
- Work across all security domains amp; gain exposure working for corporate amp; enterprise organisations
- Flexibility with work hours and work from home and/or office
- Location Open, anywhere in New Zealand
About the Role:
As a member of our Cybersecurity Consulting team, you’ll engage with our customers to proactively support them on their cyber resilience journey.
We’re looking for people who have a passion for consulting and cybersecurity and understand what it means to help organisations protect their systems and business and personal information assets. At DEFEND, we go one step further and take our customers on a journey and proactively work with them to shift left by ensuring cybersecurity is effectively embedded in their organisation.
Your day-to-day responsibilities:
- Work closely with our customers to determine their organisation’s security baseline and current state.
- Confidently assess an organisations current state using a range of assessment methodologies and frameworks.
- Engage with and guide our customers to set their security strategy, develop their governance framework and to scope and implement an ongoing programme of work to improve their cyber resilience.
- Scope and design security solutions as well as required deliverables.
- Support the definition of security roadmaps and possible mitigation strategies if required.
- Perform security design reviews and security risk assessments.
- Practice development assist with the development and delivery of relevant security practices.
- Support the pre-sales stage by providing technical expertise in meetings between the customer and our customer engagement team.
- Support the company in growing, aligning, and building the consulting business by identifying new or enhancing existing services.
Requirements
SIGNS OF SUCCESS:
You’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes to be successful in this role. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for.
Skills We Can’t Do Without
- Demonstrated success in a security solution role such as consultant, technical account management, security architect, or equivalent.
- Ability to lead engagements, build relationships and manage stakeholder expectations across a customer’s business.
- Evidence of continuous learning within the security space.
- Ability to rapidly understand a business’s operational context and the security risks associated with it.
- Able to translate business and technical requirements into project work packages.
- Demonstrated experience assessing alignment with common Information Security Management Systems, control standards, and compliance schemes.
- Able to conduct risk assessments, perform gap analysis and articulate security risks to non-technical audiences.
- Proven experience working within high performing teams, you’ll feel at ease collaborating with colleagues and responding well to positive feedback.
- Able to work with ambiguity, and learn quickly in an innovative, fun, and dynamic environment.
- Solid communication skills, along with the confident ability to write and review designs, reports, procedures, and standards.
- Passionate about delivering excellence that the best possible outcomes to your customers.
Skills we’d like/nice to have
- Exposure to Threat Modelling.
- Experience securing Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Familiarity with NZ Government security requirements (PSR, NZISM, Camp;A).
- Security certification CISSP or CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer, CRISC, SABSA Chartered Security Architect Foundation Certificate.
Benefits
About DEFEND:
We’re a business-centric cybersecurity organisation founded by a team of passionate cybersecurity experts whose mission is to - BUILD A CYBER RESILIENT WORLD. Over the last five years, we’ve experienced phenomenal growth, working with a wide variety of customers in New Zealand and across 66 countries and winning several industry awards, including Microsoft’s 2022 New Zealand Partner of the year!
Each customer we work with is different. Our dedicated approach is to help organisations progress on their cyber resilience journey by delivering outstanding industry services with the highest level of professionalism and care.
We hold ourselves accountable by our core values. Our People First culture sets us apart, and we believe working with DEFEND will be a time in your life you will look back on and truly believe you made a real difference.
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