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The Information Security Consultant manages the IT Operations security for existing Infrastructure and new required services as part of business portfolio to continuously monitor and improve organization's security posture to build secure Infrastructure and reduce threat footprint. The role also provides subject matter expertise and operational direction on security governance, Infrastructure security control and risk analysis, security assessment, secure development practices and incident response.
Description 1. Establish and manage industry-leading Systems and operations security processes and practices at each phase of the operational services within the environment and implement operational roadmap for assessment, penetration testing and source code reviews. 2. Ensure acquired services are consistent with best practices security architecture guidelines. 3. Conduct regular manual and automated security testing, assessments, review results, track issues and follow up to ensure remediation. 4. Coordinate and scope Third party penetration testing and security assessments activities including configuration reviews for compliance and additional assurance of secured implementation and operation of solutions. 5. Recommend improvements to the secure reference architecture through continuous review and assessment of the security requirements, policies, and procedures. 6. Provide regular updates to management on Infrastructure security and vulnerability management posture by defining operational KPIs and metrics, build dashboard and reports. 7. Manage follow up, close and report upon all departments information security regulatory requirements, audits, inconformity reports, compliance issues and observations that arise during conducted internal and external assurance engagements. 8. Conduct Risk Assessments on the required Infrastructure and IT Operations services to identify applicable risk scenarios and mitigating controls 9. Perform other related duties or assignments as directed. 10. Experience in identifying and mitigating Cybersecurity risks related to Azure implementations. 11. Experience in security architecture relating to Infrastructure and IT Operations. 12. Experience in designing secure on-prem Infrastructure solutions. 13. Experience in designing secure cloud Infrastructure and Operations solutions.
Requirements Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering/Science, Electronics Engineering, or any other appropriately relevant field.
Minimum Experience: 10 years of progressive experience in a directly related field. 7 years of professional experience in ICT information, application security in an enterprise level environment.
3 years in similarly relevant Application security role with around the same team capacity and complexity of assigned tasks.
Job Specific Skills: Certifications in industry relative standards, frameworks, and schools of practice, such as CSSLP, GWAPT, OSCP, etc. Excellent knowledge in maintaining effective working relationships with staff and clients; excellent people management skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Proven success in working in a similarly complex ICT information security within same industry. Professional experience in conducting manual and automated application assessments (DAST, SAST & RAST), penetration testing and configuration review. Good understanding of cryptography, web service frameworks, mobile application architectures, and service architectures (such as event-driven, service-oriented, or serverless architectures) Good understanding of implementing enterprise information security architectures and frameworks. Strong understanding of project management principles and requirements. Excellent knowledge and understanding of Information Technology industry, trends, architectures, integrations, operational security, and process computing. Excellent knowledge and understanding of leading industry standards, frameworks, methodologies, and best practices. Excellent knowledge and understanding of information security governance, compliance, architecture components, technical solutions, and operational services.
