Cyber Analyst na Yarra Valley Water

Position overview

• Permanent, Full-Time opportunity
• True hybrid working – work from home and our Mitcham office
• $117,026 - $126,511 per annum plus 12% superannuation

About us
We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The Role
The Cyber Analyst plays a vital role in maintaining the security and resilience of our digital environment by ensuring that security operations are managed effectively and efficiently. This position is responsible for protecting Yarra Valley Water’s systems and sensitive data from evolving cyber threats through proactive monitoring, assessment, and response.

Your key responsibilities

• Ensure security solutions and controls are effective and appropriately managed, updated, and improved (e.g., health checks, tuning, capacity, licensing) to reduce risk of cyber incidents and downtime.
• Work closely with external managed services to ensure they are operating effectively (e.g., assist with SIEM log ingestion, review/adjust agreed response actions, etc.).
• Monitor security alerts, triage, and take any protective actions as required to reduce risk and protect critical systems. Escalate to the Cyber Incident Response Lead where necessary.
• Regularly monitor outputs of vulnerability/ASM/posture management tools and ensure tickets are raised to manage critical vulnerabilities.
• Assist with penetration testing activities – scoping, raising risks for findings, tracking remediation to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities to strengthen YVW’s security posture.
• Keep abreast of critical threats/vulnerabilities that may impact YVW and work with teams to promptly mitigate them.
• Review the output from Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools for data loss events and investigate/report them ensuring the protection of sensitive information and reducing the risk of data breaches.
• Conduct threat hunting based on intelligence from trusted third parties improving threat detection capabilities (e.g., DGS, ACSC).
• Identify security risks and work with the GRC Lead to ensure they are managed via the risk management process.
• Proactively identify process gaps – identify procedures that need to be created, and existing ones that need to be updated/improved to ensure cyber activities are performed to a high/consistent standard.
• Contribute to cyber uplift initiatives as required to improve overall cyber security maturity and resilience across YVW.
• Comply with YVW Information Security Policy and Standards, regulatory requirements (SOCI Act, VPDSS), and best practice framework (NIST CSF).
• Assist with security audits to demonstrate compliance with relevant policies, standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., evidence collection).
• Assist with cyber incidents and simulation exercises as required to enhance incident response readiness and improve ability to detect, contain and recover from cyber security incidents.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in a Cyber Operations role, including managing security solutions, vulnerability management, penetration testing, change management and working with external managed services,
• Strong interpersonal skills, including effective communication, teamwork, and proactive problem solving.
• A high level of resilience, diligence, and determination
• Tertiary qualifications in IT or Cyber Security (e.g., Diploma or Degree) and/or industry-recognised cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, GSEC, CCSK) are desirable

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $117,026 - $126,511 per annum plus 12% superannuation
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office
• 14 weeks paid leave parental leave
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, wellbeing, mental health, menstrual or menopause
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume. 
Closing date: Wednesday 15^th October 2025
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please call 03 9872 2542 or email [email protected]. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.