Job Description

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

• Secondary educational qualification with 3 years post-related experience
• At least 4 years practical experience of implementation and maintenance of cyber security systems within a large organization
• Working experience administrating and monitoring cyber security software
• Good understanding of cyber security systems and the ability to work independently to solve
• problems
• Working experience troubleshooting technical issues and providing technical support to end-users
• Detailed knowledge and working experience of security and networking technologies including IPv4, Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks, Proxy Servers, Intrusion Detection and Forensic tool

Desirable Qualifications/Experience:

Security Professional certification (CEH, GIAC, ISC2, or other relevant certification)

Duties/Role:

Information security

• Applies and maintains specific security measures as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments
• Contributes to the identification of risks that arise from potential technical solution architectures
• Suggests alternate solutions or countermeasures to mitigate risks
• Defines secure systems configurations in compliance with intended architectures
• Supports investigation of suspected attacks and security breaches

Information assurance

• Follows standard approaches for the technical assessment of information systems against information assurance policies and business objectives
• Makes routine accreditation decisions
• Recognises decisions that are beyond their scope and responsibility level and escalates according
• Reviews and performs risk assessments and risk treatment plans
• Identifies typical risk indicators and explains prevention measures
• Maintains integrity of records to support and justify decisions

IT infrastructure

• Carries out routine operational procedures, including the execution of specified automation
• tools/scripts
• Contributes to maintenance and installation
• Monitors and reports on infrastructure performance to enable service delivery
• Resolves issues or refers to others for assistance

Vulnerability assessment

• Undertakes low-complexity routine vulnerability assessments using automated and semi-automated tools
• Escalates issues where appropriate
• Contributes to documenting the scope and evaluating the results of vulnerability assessments

Information Security Administration

• Works with access controls for firewalls and endpoint security solutions
• Assists in the operation of day-to-day administrative transactions and systems
• Performs periodic system backups and produces standard monitoring reports
• Coordinates user access and maintains security checklists and authorization tables
• Tests the effectiveness of new or revised information security procedures and tools

Information Technology (IT) Security Policies

• Performs information gathering and research on key elements of IT security policies
• Assists senior colleagues in identifying and analysing critical issues in IT security policies
• Executes IT security policies and standards within a specific region in organization
• Conducts performance reviews on implementation of IT security policies
• Generates status reports for senior management to ensure the implementation of IT security policies

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