Lead Cyber Security Engineer (EE)

SUMMARY:
Position: Lead Cyber Security Engineer (EE) Industry: Insurance Sector: Finance/IT Location: Centurion, Gauteng Salary: R 750,000 per annum Closing date: Friday, 28 May 2021

POSITION INFO:

Position: Lead Cyber Security Engineer (EE)
Industry: Insurance
Sector: Finance/IT
Location: Centurion, Gauteng
Salary: R 750,000 per annum
Closing date: Friday, 28 May 2021

INTRODUCTION:

• We provide practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses. Through our client-facing brands, with our wellness and rewards programme, and our other specialist brands, we enable business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.
• We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members.

Lead: Cyber Security Analyst at Group Operations

Role Purpose:

• Lead and mentor a team of cyber security analysts. You are responsible to ensure systems, networks and infrastructure undergo regular penetration testing. The team is responsible to identify and report on vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis as well as any potential security risks identified. The lead is responsible to ensure all identified issues are escalated to the correct team and are remediated timeously. The security analyst team also provide support to and are required to participate in groups forensic investigations and cyber incident responses.

Responsibilities and work outputs:

• Review security alerts to determine relevancy and urgency of potential threats and take appropriate action to mitigate risk.
• Oversee vulnerability scans and review vulnerability assessment reports to assess and address vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, procedures, standards and awareness, by providing data insights through analysis.
• Support other teams in the group and operations to respond to cyber incidents by providing insights and analysis.
• Analyze threat information from a variety of internal and external sources to provide actionable intelligence to maintain and enhance defenses.
• Analyze security breaches to determine their root cause and inform risk mitigating strategies.
• Participate in and advise on appropriate security awareness training and procedures to drive awareness of information security.
• Actively create a positive work climate and culture to energize employees, give meaning to work, minimize work disruption and maximize employee productivity.
• Contribute to and drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, people growth and improvement and cohesiveness.
• Effectively manage your own performance and that of direct reports within the team in order to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Be and encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team.
• Take ownership for driving own career development and the career development of team (where applicable).

Competencies required:

• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Detail-orientated
• Problem-solving skills
• Examining Information
• Adopting Practical Approaches

Experience and Qualifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology or related domain
• Security certification e.g. CEH & OSCP
• CCNA / Security+ / CCNA Security / SSCP / CCNA Cyber Ops
• 1-2 years'' related experience within Information Security Governance, Operational Information Security, or related IT specialist field
• 2-3 years'' IT experience

Location:

• The above-mentioned position is currently available in the Infrastructure and Operations department at our Group IT Operations division based at our office in Centurion.

If you are interested in this role please click “Apply”

Should you not hear from us within 14 days after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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