Senior Security Analyst - Cape Town, South Africa - Blak International

Blak International
Blak International
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Senior Security Analyst
Remote - Full Time


Introduction


Our Client is a leading African born technology provider and one of the world's leading information communication technology (ICT) companies.


Duties and Responsibilities


The primary responsibility of the Security Analyst (Senior) is to research and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in order to minimise the window of attack and limit the amount of time an adversary has to gain access to the network before they are discovered.


This includes but not limited to:

  • Contribute to threat intelligence strategy:
  • Produce cyber threat intelligence
  • Conduct research
  • Threat management
  • Produce Intelligence Reports
  • Assist in developing a threat intelligence strategy to support the business to become proactive, focussed, and preventative and develop and implement appropriate plans to address lower performance and ineffective cyber hunting practices.
  • Produce intelligence outputs, threat and vulnerability reports, data and actionable intelligence and situational awareness to facilitate decision making.
  • Research and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities and develop action plans to counter emerging cyber intelligence threats.
  • Produce threat warnings, realtime situational and predictive analysis and the synthesis of allsource information and data.
  • Participate in meetings and produce technical reports on intelligence threats and mechanisms depicting the value of the cyber intelligence function.
  • Effectively work with a team of Security Analysts.

Technical Competencies

  • Privilege Access Management
  • Vulnerability Management
  • End Point Protection
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Identity Management
  • Security Information and Event Management
  • Security Incident Handling
  • Cloud Web Security

Certifications:


  • Comptia: CYSA, CASP, S+
  • ISC2: CISSP, CSSP
  • ISACA: CISM
  • Microsoft Security: SC200, SC300, SC400, AZ500, MS500
  • McAfee: ePO Specialist, ESM Specialist
  • Trend: Apex 1, Deep Security
  • Symantec: Administration of Symantec Endpoint Protection 14
  • Splunk: Enterprise Certified Admin
  • Mimecast: Gladiator
  • Palo Alto: Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer


  • AWS: Certified Security
  • Specialty

Behavioural Competencies

  • Demonstrate investigative and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Display critical thinking and contextual analysis abilities with a passion for information security and service excellence.
  • Proactive in approach and conduct research on emerging trends, establishing preemptive and practical plans to counter potential threats.
  • Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills and the required interpersonal skills to engage with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Work experience required
years' work experience

years' experience required in SOC and or Cyber roles and IT Security and/ or related function in a medium to large ICT organisation, preferably IT service provider.


  • Excellent client service orientation
  • Excellent at solving problems and can use your initiative to drive innovation
  • Excellent process management experience
  • Excellent Cyber Risk experience

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
R600, R650,000.00 per year


Experience:


  • SOC: 3 years (required)
  • IT Security: 5 years (required)

License/Certification:

  • Comptia: CYSA, CASP, S+
(required)

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ISC2:
CISSP, CSSP (required)

  • ISACA: CISM
(required)

  • Microsoft Security: SC200, SC300, SC400, AZ500, MS500
(required)

  • McAfee: ePO Specialist, ESM Specialist
(required)

  • Trend: Apex 1, Deep Security
(required)

  • Symantec: Administration of Symantec Endpoint Protection 14
(required)

  • Splunk: Enterprise Certified Admin
(required)

  • Mimecast: Gladiator
(required)

  • Palo Alto: Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer
(required)


  • AWS: Certified Security
  • Specialty
(required)
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