Cyber Security Architect
What the work is
Designs a security system or major components of a security system, and may head a security design team building a new security system.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Develops and implements cyber security strategy and architecture
- Designs and maintains security controls and processes to protect systems, networks and data
- Reviews system security measures, and recommends and implements enhancements
- Collaborates with other ICT and business departments to align security measures with security standards, policies and regulations
- Stays updated on cyber security threats, and recommends new security technology and strategy improvements
- Implements new cyber security solutions and technologies
- Provides guidance to ICT staff on security best practices
- Develops and maintains cyber security reference architecture for consistent security controls
- Implements incident response and disaster recovery plans
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the security team of a fictional freight and logistics company, working from an office and a monitoring room. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- You spot something odd early, and it turns out to be a real problem you stopped in time
- A colleague reports a suspicious email, and you thank them in front of the team
- You explain a risk so clearly that a busy manager decides to fix it today
Hard days
- An alert goes off at 4:50pm on a Friday and nobody knows if it is real
- People feel blamed for a mistake, and stop telling you about the next one
- You are asked to make something both completely secure and instantly easy to use
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 271134, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.