Cyber Security Engineer
What the work is
Designs, develops, modifies, documents, tests, implements, installs and supports cyber security software applications and systems to ensure they are fully integrated.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Develops, implements and integrates secure coding practices, and conducts security testing and vulnerability assessments for software and systems
- Collaborates with developers to identify and remediate security issues
- Develops and implements secure software development lifecycle processes and methodologies
- Integrates security controls into development processes
- Participates in code reviews and provides security guidance
- Assesses security of third-party software components and libraries used in software and applications
- Develops and implements secure application programming interfaces and libraries for use in software and applications
- Performs code analysis scan on software binaries
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 271135, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.