(984) Cyber Security Specialist – Identity Security Services x2 – BSTD needed at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Provide technical expertise as input into cybersecurity capabilities and appropriate controls for departmental/SARB Group projects to contribute towards business objectives.
• Provide operational and management support through effective reporting and dashboard creation (where relevant).
• Design and deploy industry-aligned security solutions to meet business requirements.
• Use and maintain security technologies to identify potential security issues across technologies, solutions and applications within the SARB Group.
• Respond to minor security breaches by effecting operational countermeasures, including making technical configuration changes.
• Support the investigation and containment of major incidents using advanced information.
• Innovate, design and implement opportunities for improvements/enhancements, integration, consolidation and automation, to ensure the cost-effective and optimal use of CSO technology as well as resources in support of protecting business solutions.
• Research and keep abreast of new and changing cybersecurity technologies and architectures.
• Scan the external threat landscape and identify vulnerabilities within SARB Group’s solutions.
• Assist solution owners with remediation activities relating to the ever-evolving cyber-threats.
• Provide technical input into addressing audit findings, penetration tests, TIBER and other risk assessments.
• Work closely with the governance teams to develop policies, standards and a SARB Group cybersecurity strategy.
• Attend to service and incident requests, and ensure the resolution thereof within agreed service level standards.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• the minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
• the minimum of 5–7 years of job-related experience working in a security operations environment and related systems, for example:
• AD (Active Directory);
• Microsoft (MS) Entra ID (Azure) and M365 Could Security;
• PowerShell Scripting;
• Certification Authority;
• Mimecast;
• Center for Internet Security (CIS) policy management;
• Silverfort (UIP);
• Tenable; and/or
• password management solutions.