Cyber Solution Architect
Lead Cyber transformation for mission critical programs shaping Australia's future
Inspire, shape strategy and deliver impact
Location: Canberra or Melbourne
This role requires Australian Citizenship and an active NV-1 security clearance, with willingness to upgrade to NV-2.
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Do Work That Matters
Leidos Australia delivers IT, mission software, land, sea and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2,000 local experts—backed by global experience and an extensive partner network—solve some of the world’s toughest cyber and technology challenges across government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health sectors.
Your New Role and Responsibilities
As a Cyber Solutions Architect, you will lead the design and assurance of secure, resilient and mission-ready architectures across complex, high-assurance environments.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will shape cyber architecture across large-scale transformation programs.
This is more than a security design role. You will:
- Embed security-by-design principles into enterprise and solution architectures
- Lead risk reduction activities, cyber architecture strategy across cloud, infrastructure, digital platforms and enterprise observability ecosystems
- Develop security plans, policies and procedures
- Conduct threat modelling, risk assessments and security architecture reviews across mission-critical systems
- Define secure reference architectures, patterns, standards and hardening baselines
- Integrate security principles across identity, network, workload and data domains.
- Work with specific security use cases such as addressing security standards, privacy by design and emerging security practices.
You will regularly resolve highly complex cyber and systems challenges requiring deep technical expertise, strategic reasoning and collaborative leadership. Your solutions will not only protect systems—they will enhance mission performance and commercial outcomes.
What You’ll Bring to Make an Impact
- Ideally 10+ years’ experience in cyber security architecture, engineering or secure systems design
- Ideally Defence Cyber Security Expertise from ICTSB/DCIAB/JCG/JCU/CO or experience working with these groups.
- Ability to translate complex security problems for non cyber security speakers.
- Proven ability to lead and advocate in a complex multi-discipline environment where cyber is just one of the constraints being considered
- Deep expertise in secure solution architecture across:
- Mission software systems
- Infrastructure platforms and deployed information environments
- Knowledge of security frameworks and their application including for the Information Security Manual (ISM)
- Understanding of secure SDLC, DevSecOps and systems integration
- Exposure to both Waterfall and Agile delivery models
- Experience influencing executive stakeholders on cyber risk and architectural direction
- A strong sense of ownership, accountability and delivery focus
Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box. If you meet most of them, we encourage you to apply. We’re most interested in your strengths, growth mindset, leadership capability and ambition.
This role requires Australian Citizenship and an active NV-1 security clearance, with willingness to upgrade to NV-2.
This role requires Australian Citizenship and an active NV-1 security clearance, with willingness to upgrade to NV-2.
Next Steps
- To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
- Recruitment process - 1 virtual interview and/or 1 face-to-face & background checks.
- Applicants 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.
- We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please get in touch with our Careers team [email protected] if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.
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Original Posting:For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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