Senior Cyber Security Technical Architect

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa NTT Full time

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it's a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It's about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That's why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

Grow Your Career with NTT DATA

Dimension Data is a proud member of the NTT Group, a global IT powerhouse headquartered in Japan. As part of NTT, we deliver a wide range of IT services and solutions to clients around the world. Although the Dimension Data brand was retired in some parts of the world in 2019, it remains well recognized in the Middle East and Africa. Join us and become part of the NTT family as we continue to provide innovative solutions that help our clients achieve their business objectives.

What you'll be doing

Job Summary:

As a Cybersecurity Architect, you will play a critical role in engaging our clients to assist with safeguarding an organization's assets, business operations, and data. You'll translate cybersecurity strategies into practical solutions, ensuring the implementation of best practices and adherence to Zero Trust principles. Collaborating with IT security leaders and practitioners, you'll design and maintain security solutions across various domains.

We are a consulting and services organization, you will therefore be required to scope out cybersecurity projects, develop a Professional Services to implement the proposed solutions which includes project development and planning with our internal teams and propose our Managed Security Services portfolio to our clients. The candidate will be required to have a strong technical background and having worked with different levels (Operations, IT Managers, C-Suite) within an organization.

You will have an operations team, an architect team and a Managed Security Services team that will support in driving your deliverables. It is a requirement to have great communication skills and be a team player as you will work with several Go to Markets.

Responsibilities:

Security Solution Design:

  • Translate cybersecurity strategies into actionable security solutions.
  • Implement best practices and follow Zero Trust principles.
  • Design solutions for identity, devices, data, applications, and network infrastructure.
  • Address hybrid and Multicloud environments.

Collaboration and Communication:

  • Work closely with IT security leaders, privacy experts, and other stakeholders.
  • Understand business needs and align security strategies accordingly.
  • Foster collaboration across the organization.

Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC):

  • Develop and implement governance frameworks.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
  • Manage risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Security Operations:

  • Design and guide the implementation of security operations capabilities.
  • Monitor and respond to security incidents.
  • Enhance incident response processes.

Identity and Access Management:

  • Design secure identity and access management solutions.
  • Implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms.
  • Ensure proper access controls.

Infrastructure Security:

  • Design security solutions for network infrastructure.
  • Address network segmentation, firewalls, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.
  • Collaborate with cloud security teams for secure cloud deployments.

Application and Data Security:

  • Design secure application architectures.
  • Implement encryption, secure coding practices, and vulnerability management.
  • Protect sensitive data through encryption and access controls.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Experience:

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture.
  • Strong technical background in cybersecurity.
  • Familiarity with third-party vendors, including Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Security Operations Centers (SOC).

Certifications:

  • Relevant cybersecurity certifications (i.e. CISA, CEH, Security+, CEH)
  • CISSP, CISM or SSCP advantageous

Vendor Knowledge (Advantageous with technical certifications)

  • Palo Alto
  • Cisco
  • Microsoft
  • Fortinet

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Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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