Principal Information Security Analyst Job at NTT Ltd.

Job role overview

  • Date posted

    September 29, 2026

  • Closing date

    October 29, 2026

  • Hiring location

    South Africa

  • Experience

    14 years

Description

Your day at NTT DATA

  • The Principal Information Security Analyst is a highly skilled subject matter expert responsible for Platform evolution, Integration support, New COTS review/analysis, L4 Platform operations support and mentoring for the overall team.
  • This includes Platform architecture design, regular architecture reviews, platform build & automation, integration design & build, tool evolution, Major platform upgrades, security event reporting, and content engineering. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and Works as part of a Security Platform Engineering team
  • Responsible for the MSSP platform architecture designing
  • Lead and build new service platform and automation for the SOC/security services
  • Conduct architecture reviews and updates
  • Support new integrations design and build
  • Lead the new COTS capability review and analysis
  • Lead the new tool evaluation and POC
  • Act as the advisor and consultant for the Platform and Content Engineering, stake holder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.
  • Support the review of lifecycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching
  • Support in designing the SOPs and notify stake holders on log flow/log format issues.
  • Documents best practices.
  • Identifies opportunities to make automations which will help the incident response team.
  • Documents and closes resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
  • Investigates and identifies root cause of major platform disruptions and assist with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
  • Cooperates with all stakeholders including vendors and carriers to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.

Knowledge and Attributes:

  • Extended knowledge on implementation and monitoring of MS sentinel, PaloAlto XSIAM, MS LogicApps, XSOAR, and/or other automation tools with Google SecOps (optional)
  • Extended knowledge on security and SOC architecture, worked across different security technologies, DevOps & automation tools
  • Good knowledge and experience on different cloud native services such as Azure, and Google
  • Customer service orientated and pro-active thinking.
  • Problem solver who is highly driven and self-organized.
  • Great attention to detail.
  • Good analytical and logical thinking.
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
  • Team player and lead with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
  • Relevant level of security certifications such as PaloAlto XSIAM engineer/Architect, Azure DevOps or equivalent, SC-100, DW-350, DW-360 or equivalent
  • Relevant level of additional Security certifications such as AZ-500, CEH, CISSP, CISM etc. will be added advantage.

Required experience:

  • 14 + years' experience in Security
  • Extended experience in Security technologies like SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, CDR, Cloud native security services and security architecture
  • Minimum experience of 5 Years in DevOps, Scripting using Python, KQL and XQL
  • Extended experience in technical support to clients.
  • Extended experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
  • Extended experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
  • Extended experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
  • Knowledge on networking, Linux, Agentic AI/RAG and security concepts.
  • Good understanding and experience in configuring/managing security controls such as Firewall, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, UTM, Proxy, SOAR, HoneyPots and other security tools.
  • Knowledge on log collection mechanism such as Syslog, Log file, DB API.
  • Extensive experience in Security Engineering.

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