About us 

The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.  
 

About the role 

The Senior Manager, Victorian Government Cyber Incident Response Service (CIRS) is a key member of the Cyber, Data and Digital Resilience team. Reporting to the Director, Cyber Incidents and Emergencies, the Senior Manager CIRS is responsible for providing incident response leadership and contributing to the division's broader intelligence and emergency functions. The role includes leadership and coordination of incident and digital forensic response functions throughout the incident response cycle to support operational and strategic decision making.

The role leads a team of incident response, digital forensics and threat intelligence analysts in the delivery of high-quality incident response, investigation and analysis functions to provide stakeholders with best practice advice to identify, contain and eradicate cyber security threats impacting the Victorian Government. The position is responsible for the management of the CIRS service catalogue and programs of work and informs projects and service offerings for the whole of Victorian Government.

The position leads 24/7/365 whole-of-government responses to major cyber security incidents. The position requires strong initiative, professional drive and integrity—including the ability to manage competing deadlines during periods of heightened operational tempo.

About you 

To be considered for the role, you must be able to demonstrate: 

• Experience in managing complex operational cyber incident response activities. Ability to analyse and critically evaluate a situation, work with stakeholders to develop response options and implement solutions in complex and high-pressure operating environments.
• Experience in leading cyber incident response operations for government, including working with and applying cyber security frameworks. Understands the current global cyber security environment, emerging trends and relevant issues. 
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills, ability to confidently convey complex concepts and information and meet the needs of targeted audiences at various levels of government. Includes expertise in the preparation of operational reports, briefs and recommendations on a variety of issues.
• Exceptional leadership in an incident management environment, including analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated leadership experience building incident response and emergency management capability, including systems, processes and procedures.
• Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation and leadership skills, with a proven record of initiating and maintaining relationships across government and industry sectors and facilitating strategic partnerships to deliver agreed objectives. Demonstrated capacity to work with stakeholders in high pressure situations such as emergency events.

For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description. 

Mandatory requirements

• The successful applicant will be required to attain and maintain a Negative Vetting 1 Security Clearance.
• Participation in an on-call roster and the ability to perform intermittent after-hours work in response to incidents or emergencies.

This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia. 

 
How to apply 

Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Monday 12 January 2026. All applications should include: 

• a resume; and 
• a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages) 

Other relevant information 

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.  

Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form. Employment of successful candidates will be subject to Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC). 

DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.