About the Role
Join a team that backs your expertise, values your input, and gives you the space to shape security standards across a diverse client base. We are scaling fast and doubling down on security. This role is embedded in a growing, collaborative team that's shaping how midmarket clients think about risk, resilience, and real-world protection. You will be at the heart of things, designing, building, and delivering security that’s not just smart, but scalable, practical, and built to last.
Responsibilities
- Run security assessments that make clients safer.
- Lead pre-sales chats, translating risk into solutions.
- Build and configure security technology.
- Stay current on standards, frameworks, and threats (NIST CSF, ISO27001, ISO42001, ACSC Essential Eight).
- Raise the bar for SME and midmarket security.
- Explain risk to anyone with no jargon, no panic.
Requirements
- Real-world experience implementing NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or other frameworks in the SME space.
- Real-world experience around AI governance is a bonus.
- Deep security knowledge across networks, apps, OS, firewalls, VPNs, databases, email, and more.
- A pragmatic approach to risk, identifying and helping to fix problems.
- Audit and compliance experience.
- At least one heavyweight certification: CISSP, SSCP, CCSP, CISM, CISA.
- MSP or MSSP experience is highly valued.
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Writing skills
- Risk assessment
- Security framework implementation
- AI governance
- Network security
- Application security
- OS security
- Firewall configuration
- VPN configuration
- Database security
- Email security
- Audit
- Compliance
Location
- Mascot
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- Up to $150k package
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- 10 paid study days per year
- Exam fees covered
- Pay rises for certifications
- FastTrack mentoring program
- MAD (Making A Difference) Council participation
- Tesla company car option (conditions apply)
- Regular social events
- Free access to Uprise (1:1 coaching with psychologists or counsellors)
About the Company
- First Focus is Australia’s #1 MSP (Cloud Tango says so, 8 years straight).
- We have 330+ technical pros across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
- We are scaling fast and doubling down on security.
- Our team culture is built on trust, curiosity, and support.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome neurodiverse candidates and encourage disclosure so we can tailor the experience to showcase your strengths.
- Ask for our Neurodiversity Statement—we’d love to support you.
