Head / Lead Engineer (Planning & Architecture)

**What the role is**
- The jobholder will be a member of the HTX Cybersecurity Centre of Expertise, providing security-by-design leadership to all departments in the Home Team and HTX. The centre promotes the adoption of defence-in-depth and security best practices and help enable the transformation of Home Team’s cybersecurity capabilities. Through our work, we enhance the resilience of Home Team ICT, networks and non ICT systems against threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

**What you will be working on**
- The jobholder will be responsible for the following:

- Lead a team to develop cybersecurity capability across Home Team to define the cybersecurity technology stack. The objective is to promote interoperability for orchestration, automation, and expedite Home Team capability delivery via easy adoption of centrally-managed cybersecurity solutions (cyberSecurity-as-a-service, SECaaS).
- Establish as the technical lead in the full offerings of the SECaaS, responsible to craft and lead the Concept of Operations, establish liaison activities with internal stakeholders and potential tenderers and solutions, and defining the Technical Specifications.
- Lead the team to conceptualise the design feature and the problem statement that the security product feature needs to address. A proper security cost-benefit analysis would need to be performed to assess the feasibility of the security product feature.
- Designs and develops Cybersecurity architecture building blocks to comprehensively mitigate security risks to MHA science & technology capabilities. The design concepts of the building blocks would go through an iterative manner, scaling iteratively to ensure cybersecurity building blocks meet its objective.
- Develops deep professional competency in specific cybersecurity domains to provide expert advice on emerging issues and implementations. Continue to monitor the usage and performance of the security building blocks to identify further opportunities for improvement and to plan for future generation of security building block features. Establish as technical expert to align and understand the different needs of standards on cybersecurity Domains across the different enterprise-wide projects and infrastructures.
- Provide guidance and lead a team guidance to develop and maintain HTX Cybersecurity Controls and architecture. To standardise the definition, design, and implementation of security measures across the whole of Ministry of Home Affairs. Aligning and influencing security solutions, controls, and designs across the different stakeholders within Ministry of Home Affairs.

**What we are looking for**
- We are looking for someone who is proactive, with a strong aim to get things done and also has:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to clearly communicate with security engineers, enterprise architects, and senior business stakeholders. This requires being able to communicate concepts and processes on varying level of understanding to different targeted audiences. Demonstrating ability to be a key influencer in the team’s strategy
- Possess excellent diagnostics skills and good ability to resolve problems quickly.
- Minimally a tertiary education in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science or related engineering fields; or proven work experience and skillsets.
- Minimally 5 years of work experience in designing and engineering enterprise-wide security controls and cybersecurity-related work.
- Cybersecurity professional qualifications such as CISSP/CISA/CISM, GSEC/SSCP, GCIH, CCNA/P or proven domain expertise in the following areas would be advantageous:

- Security Orchestration and Automated Response
- Network Security
- Server Operating System and Container Security
- DevSecOps
- Application Security
- Data Security
- Cloud

Personal Characteristics & Behaviour
- positive attitude & collaborative mindset
- good planning skills
- ability to work independently and lead a team
- highly motivated to acquire deep technical Cybersecurity skills and knowledge
- highly motivated to keep abreast with the latest development in cybersecurity technology and solutions
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

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