Chief Engineer
Leidos
- Canberra, ACT
- Permanent
- Full-time
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- Manage the day-to-day activities of the Security Engineering team, ensuring the teams are meeting operational and performance objectives and develop team members to ensure they have relevant skills and qualifications.
- Assess and manage risks to the effectiveness of platforms and services to protect against current and emerging threats.
- Provide advice and guidance to the team on defence engineering related technologies data and trends to identify area for contract growth and support the account strategy. Team-level budgeting, planning, and roadmap.
- Manage and improve Security Controls specific processes, dependencies, and integrations across multiple environments.
- Stakeholder management to ensure that the Security Engineering Team meet the needs of the business and comply with all relevant laws, and regulations and enforce company policies and procedures.
- Contribute to the Cyber Security strategy and ensure the team is aligned with the strategy.
- Responding to audit findings, prioritizing remediation measures and manage the budget your team, including staff, contracts, and technology.
- Identify demands, objectives and key results and define and monitor supporting performance metrics.
- Ensure the availability, stability, and performance of Security Control platforms.
- NV-2 Australian Government Security Clearance
- Ideally you will be a degree qualified engineer with at least 15 years of experience in defence engineering and large ASDEFCON projects.
- Membership with the Institute of Engineers Australia (IEAust) with Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) or similar industry body credential.
- Experience leading large teams of engineers (design and integration) to deliver Defence capability to an ADF customer.
- Whilst you will be a passionate advocate of engineering, you will understand business imperatives, and be able to communicate with all levels and departments - representing engineering and related technical issues in a way that can be understood by relevant audiences.
- We work with the Australian Department of Defence to design and operate the cyber security tools used across the Army, Navy and Air force.
- We deliver software development and operational support through to the integration of underwater autonomous vehicles and survey ships to meet mission objectives.
- We're building the next generation secret end user environment for the Australian Department of Defence across a number of strategic locations around Australia.