Cyber Security Specialist

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