Senior OT Security Analyst

Job Description

With the help of over 30,000 people over 100 years, we have built, maintained, and refurbished hydropower infrastructure across Tasmania. We're fuelling the future of energy with the power of the past, and we need skilled and reliable people to join us, to assist with supporting and maintaining operational uptime and broader security initiatives.

We support applications from all members of our community for equitable access to our employment opportunities. We are open to discussing workplace flexibility in all our vacancies, to ensure we can attract the best candidates and accommodate individual needs, differences, disabilities and working arrangements, even in ways we have not thought of. Our merit-based recruitment practices are founded on building diversity by fostering an inclusive, flexible and equitable workplace. For more information about Hydro Tasmania please visit our website www.hydro.com.au/careers

Who are you?

You have hands-on experience with operational technology or industrial control systems with exposure to security operations and/or incident response. Your experience and skillset also includes:

• Strong relationship building and stakeholder engagement skills,
• Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex ideas to a range of stakeholders,
• Demonstrated working coding and scripting capability with the ability to learn new languages
• Strong understanding of network security concepts such as firewalls and monitoring tools

Even if you don't meet these criteria 100%, we still want to hear from you!

About the role

To put it simply, as a Senior OT Security Analyst at Hydro Tasmania, you will have a variety of impactful responsibilities to protect the business' operational technology from cyber security threats. Within this role, you will be a trusted source of information to deliver security guidance as well as detect threats by implementing and maintaining a cyber security capability. You will also manage response efforts to cyber security incidents.

As a Senior OT Security Analyst at Hydro Tasmania, you will...

• Implement strategic cyber initiatives aligned with key relevant frameworks and standards (such as the AESCSF and IEC 62443)
• Supervise the execution of cyber security operations and lead development of initiatives through analysis and risk management
• Proactively provide expert advice and monitor security events
• Brief leaders on OT-specific threat intelligence and security trends

More information can be found on the attached Position Description: PD - FIN - Senior OT Security Analyst - HT5 - Sept 25.pdf

Haven't convinced you yet?

In addition to a competitive remuneration package, this role offers the unique advantage of being directly involved in contributing to key customer-focussed system enhancements for Hydro Tasmania. We value flexibility and understand this means different things to different people, so we are open to discussing what this looks like for you. We offer a range of employee perks and often have something for everyone, including generous parental leave, electricity discounts and un-debited sick leave. At Hydro Tasmania we also strongly support career development opportunities, and while this can look different for everyone as well, we will work with you to support the pathways at Hydro Tasmania you want to explore!

As an endorsed employer for women, we have benefits and policies on our Work180 page - check it out here: www.work180.com/en-au/for-women/employer/hydro-tasmania

Let's get applying!

Attach your resume and a cover letter before 9am Monday 17th November 2025. Keep your cover letter simple and please don't feel the need to overcomplicate things! If looking for some prompts on what to include in your cover letter, you can use this as an opportunity to detail your skills and experience and tell us who you are as a candidate and your motivations for applying.

We will be running an agile recruitment process and will engage with suitable candidates as soon we have reviewed their applications.

Recruitment agencies: we respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.