Cyber Security Operations Coordinator
What the work is
Leads the coordination and response to complex cyber security incidents and hunt investigations, manages tasks across various teams for incident response and hunt operations, advises leadership on current operational collaborations, contributes toward strategic planning, facilitates incident response engagements, and assesses technical information to develop key messaging.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Leads the investigation and response to cyber security incidents and hunts, including containment, mitigation and recovery activities
- Analyses security risks and vulnerabilities, and implements security plans
- Performs threat management and modelling to identify threat vectors and develop cases for security modelling
- Coordinates with other teams to maintain the security of systems and information
- Assists in security awareness training for staff
- Manages the collection, preservation and analysis of forensic evidence
- Implements technical controls that align with security strategies and security architecture
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 271136, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.