Senior Specialist: Information Security - Johannesburg - Old Mutual Limited

    Old Mutual Limited
    Old Mutual Limited Johannesburg

    18 hours ago

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    Job Description

    A premier African financial services group, Old Mutual Limited offers a wide range of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers.

    The organization believes in the potential of Africa and its diverse workforce reflects this.

    Main Responsibilities

    1. Implement security measures by design, including asset & application security, vulnerability management, security testing, and endpoint security.
    2. Assist the security team in ensuring the organization has oversight on security risks and monitoring strategies in place to prevent, detect, and quickly respond to attacks, and contain any business or customer impact.
    3. Collaborate with the Senior Security Architect for the scoping of requirements, incident response, and adherence to necessary protocols, regulatory, or legal cyber security requirements.

    Requirements

    • Matiric and relevant Information Technology Qualification – diploma or degree.
    • 5 – 8 years of relevant industry experience within the financial services/insurance sector in an IT Security role.
    • Recognized professional industry certification(s) such as CISSP, ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security, CEH, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, CCSP, CSSLP.
    • Knowledge of Information Security Standards and Frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO27001/2.
    • Knowledge of Secure Software Development Lifecycles and agile ways of working.
    • Knowledge of Information Security and IT Risk.
    • Knowledge of Security Awareness and Training.
    • Knowledge of Cloud Computing Platforms such as AWS, Azure.
    • Knowledge of Microsoft security and compliance.

    Detailed Responsibilities

    1. Horizon Scanning: Develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
    2. Information Security: Implement required security measures, such as firewalls or message encryption, and provide input on their design, monitoring performance to notify security experts of any problems.
    3. Company Data Protection: Design and implement disaster recovery and contingency plans to protect company data.
    4. Faults Diagnosis and Correction: Provide fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.
    5. Technical Developments Recommendation: Research and suggest technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users' needs.
    6. Operational Compliance: Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct.
    7. Testing Information Technology (IT) Performance: Design and perform website/applications software tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues.
    8. Analysis of “As Is” and “To Be”: Support and contribute to the documentation of “as is” and “to be” processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the “to be” capability.
    9. Technical Database Support: Design distribution of basic database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database applications for optimum performance.
    10. Database Specifications: Contribute to the approval process for database specifications to ensure all agreed standards and protocols are followed and data integrity is preserved.
    11. Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.

    Skills and Competencies

    • Communicates Effectively
    • Courage
    • Cultivates Innovation
    • Decision Quality
    • Ensures Accountability
    • Manages Complexity
    • Nimble Learning
    • Persuades

    Education

    Bachelor of Commerce (BCom): Information Technology And Computer Science: Information Technology Management (Required)



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