Cyber Security Specialist

Recruiter:

Progressive Edge

Job Ref:

SS001A

Date posted:

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market related

JOB SUMMARY:
Cyber Security Specialist | Permanent | Cape Town

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Security Specialist

Permanent

Cape Town

Join a well established and respected Investment company in Cape Town. You will join a passionate team of incredibly smart, conscientious individuals.

The ideal incumbent will assist the current team in daily security administration and activities, as well as bolstering our expertise and experience in order to mature the environment to where cyber security focused work is completed quicker, with a greater focus on the technical intricacies of configuration management, vulnerability management, assessments and remediation.

Responsibilities:

Cyber hardening
Remediation of Internal and external security assessments
Red team / blue team assessments
Purple teaming
Security/forensic investigations
Firewall rule management and remediating assessments
Security configuration across the server estate
Remediation of assessment findings
Securing the external perimeter configurations
Securing the internal environment configurations
DMZ (demilitarised zone) configuration
Assuming the role of a threat actor
Security software stack
Email security
Cloud security (Azure etc)
Data protection
Remediation of penetration testing
Security Reporting
Security documentation
User, data and system access
Change control

Ideal Experience

10 years security specific work experience
CISSP, CISM or similar
The ability to handle pressure situations and have practical and logical thought processes and apply these to relevant situations.
Server infrastructure would be a plus (VMware, Microsoft server stack software) AD, FortiGate FW’s, EDR, ATD, AV, Sandboxing, Forensic Tools, SIEM, SOC knowledge

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