Senior IT Security Specialist

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

We are partnering with a unique mission-driven financial services organization that plays a critical role in providing stability and security to the national economy. As a key public sector entity they offer specialized insurance against large-scale complex risks ensuring that businesses and communities can recover and thrive in the face of major disruptions.

Performance Objectives for Year One:

Master the Security Stack: Within the first 6 months become the subject matter expert (SME) on the core security technology stack (Darktrace Fortinet Zscaler Crowdstrike) leading the optimization of configurations to reduce false positives by 20% and improve threat detection accuracy.
Operationalize Vulnerability Management: By the end of month 9 establish and run a formal vulnerability management program ensuring that 95% of identified critical vulnerabilities across the technology landscape are remediated within defined business SLAs.
Enhance Data Protection Controls: Within the first year design and deploy enhanced data protection controls for sensitive data implementing a clear data classification framework and leveraging encryption and data masking technologies on critical platforms.
Lead Technical Incident Response: Serve as the senior technical lead for security incident response successfully containing and remediating at least two major security incidents while documenting and improving the incident response playbook based on lessons learned.
Become the Third-Line Support Expert: Within 3 months establish yourself as the go-to third-line support specialist for all complex security issues resolving escalated tickets and providing technical guidance to other IT teams to strengthen the overall defense-in-depth security posture.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Job DescriptionWe are partnering with a unique mission-driven financial services organization that plays a critical role in providing stability and security to the national economy. As a key public sector entity they offer specialized insurance against large-scale complex risks ensuring that busines...