Job Satisfaction at Queensland Government Digital Graduate Program

Cyber incident response. Looking at incidents and investigating and remediating them

Primarily doing development and technical support for systems we maintain.

Project-based work with the occasional fire to extinguish. Web applications development for the business units in the public rural hospital.

Just over a year into grad program I got an information security specialist (ao5) role. working in cyber security operations, my day looks something like this: work with frontline officers or other internal teams to troubleshoot/diagnose network issues (Use enterprise firewalls, web proxies and email gateways, Splunk), work on exciting projects like firewall replacements or implementing new enterprise tools, vulnerability scanning and Incident Response (reverse engineering malware, analysing logs for potential compromise, or working with internal staff who report incidents)

Monitoring a ISM queue, configuring and deploying routers, switches and wireless access points. Troubleshooting connectivity issues and sometimes attending sites around the Gold Coast and Brisbane to complete work.

It's not challenging enough for me.