The posting
Contract (Hybrid) Position
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric
- Cyber Security Qualification
Skills Required:
- An understanding of the cyber security risks associated with various technologies and ways to manage them
- A good working knowledge of various security technologies such as network and application firewalls, host intrusion prevention and anti-virus
- The ability to work as part of a team and to build strong relationships with staff and other relevant individuals
- Verbal communication skills, including presentation skills, with an ability to communicate with a range of technical and non-technical team members and other relevant individuals
- Time-management and organisational skills to manage a variety of tasks, prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail, analytical skills and an ability to analyse complex technical information in order to identify patterns and trends
- An ability to work under pressure, particularly when dealing with threats and at times of high demand.
- Building machine learning models for various use cases across the organization to predict and automate human behaviour.
- Live your passion for data. Pull your own data, structuring it, cleaning it, understanding the human and financial behaviours it represents.
- Use research and insight to drive cultural change within the organisation and ensure stakeholders put consumers at the heart of their planning and strategic thinking.
- Lead the design, development and implementation of automation solutions that meet business objectives
- Collaborate with internal teams to drive continuous improvement in processes and services
- Interpret and analyse data from multiple sources, providing key analytics.
- Pro-actively provide actionable recommendations based on analysis results across various stakeholders and teams.
- Thinks strategically and communicates creatively to inform and drive the decision making of stakeholders
Experience Required:
- Use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities
- Engage in 'ethical hacking', for example, simulating security breaches
- Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption
- Investigate security alerts and provide incident response, including steps to minimize the impact and then conducting a technical and forensic investigation into how the breach happened and the extent of the damage
- Monitor identity and access management, including monitoring for abuse of permissions by authorised system users
- Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide future recommendations
- Generate reports for both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders
- Maintain an information security risk register and assist with internal and external audits relating to information security
- Monitor and respond to 'phishing' emails and 'pharming' activity
- Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training for colleagues
- Give advice and guidance to staff on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails.
- Engaging with other teams in an Agile environment
- Direct experience with anti-virus software, intrusion detection, firewalls and content filtering
- Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies and methods
- Experience designing secure networks, systems and application architectures
- Knowledge of disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies and methods
- Experience planning, researching and developing security policies, standards and procedures
- Professional experience in a system administration role supporting multiple platforms and applications
- Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management
- Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software
- Strong understanding of endpoint security solutions to include File Integrity Monitoring and Data Loss Prevention
- Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organizations data, systems and networks.
- Troubleshooting security and network problems.
- Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.
- Ensuring that the organization's data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate security controls.
- Participating in the change management process.
- Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.
- Daily administrative tasks, reporting and communication with the relevant departments in the organization.
- Respond to alerts identified by the SOC
- Guide and assist with the remediation of vulnerability findings
- Knowledge of AWS/Azure, AWS security practices (AWS and cloud platform as a service (PaaS) security)
- Automating security testing tools
- Experience in problem solving
- Knowledge of current trends and technologies of vendors
- Work with and manage vendors in implementing their solutions and strategies in line with our business objective
- Strong understanding of local and global Cyber security design concepts
Responsibilities:
- Determine who requires access to which information
- Plan, coordinate and implement information security programs
- Help protect against Web threats that facilitate cyber-crime like malware, phishing, viruses, denial-of-service attacks, and hacking
- Ensure you know and follow the incident and change processes
- Perform Problem management analyses and duties, during the week and on weekends
- Perform built as designed reviews
- Prepare project documentation (guides, configuration documents, etc.)
- Tracking of IT software as relating to Cyber
- Tracking of IT hardware as relating to Cyber
- Understanding of AWS security
