It Senior Security Analyst

2 weeks ago


Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Careerbox Full time

IT Senior Security Analyst

Are you ready to take the lead in transforming cybersecurity landscapes and safeguarding digital frontiers?

Our esteemed BPO firm is on the hunt for a dynamic and skilled IT Senior Security Analyst to join our vibrant team in Durban.

This pivotal role is at the heart of our security operations, offering the chance to shape security architecture, deploy cutting-edge technologies, and spearhead our cyber defense initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities
  1. Practical planning and implementation of effective cyber defense and detection technologies.
  2. Work with IT Ops on identified systems vulnerabilities to seek long term solutions.
  3. Formulate and evolve document standards through the use of known best practices.
  4. Improved documentation aligned to industry best practices.
  5. Enhanced reporting with clear data driven results for use during security assessments, incident analysis and root cause investigations.
  6. Lead remediation recommendations and ensure incident closure and compliance.
  7. Review and enhance evidence collection of all security incidents for reporting, compliance, and improvement purposes.
  8. Monitor networks and connected devices for security issues.
  9. Proactively respond to and report on DLP, IPS / IDS, ATP, APT detection, help devise remediation actions and improvement plans.
  10. Track and help manage remediation efforts ensuring a mature document trail.
  11. Use formal and agreed processes, methods, and standards to address incident management in a mature manner, ensuring effective remediation, business impact and root cause analysis.
  12. Investigate all cyber security incidents.
  13. Aid in the documentation of security breaches and provide remediation recommendations.
  14. Assess security incidents and measure organisational impact.
  15. Ensure and improve organisation's IT Security and regulatory compliance.
  16. Development and implementation of effective "first-line of defence" protection solutions.
  17. Implement and report against scheduled sensitive data discovery.
  18. Stay current on IT security trends and news (Trusted 3rd Party Notifications).
  19. Research security enhancements and make recommendations to management.
  20. Perform cyber security protection and detection systems design, deployment, and enhancement.
Desired Experience & Qualification
  1. Relevant IT Security certification or equivalent.
  2. Minimum 5 years' experience in IT systems engineering.
  3. Minimum 3 years' experience in IT security incident response.
  4. Experience with computer network vulnerability testing tools and techniques.
  5. Experience with vulnerability remediation in and across various technologies.
  6. Good understanding of firewalls, proxies, SIEM, AV, and IDS / IPS concepts.
  7. Understanding of Wireless network security and protection mechanisms.
  8. Understanding of cyber security centric documentation and evidence collection.
  9. Experience with industry standard InfoSec tools and techniques.
  10. Pentest experience and exposure.
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