Information Security Consultant

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Salix Recruitment Full time

**Duties**:

- Contractual agreements
- Serve in an advisory capacity on strategic deals and lead complex engagements
- Deliver executive level workshops with customer stakeholders to develop a clear understanding of their business initiatives, security programs, security operations and current security gaps and/or needs
- Engage in advanced security architecture discussions with customers and prospective customers; develop, plan, analyse, estimate, and establish priorities for the components that will be made, as well as the phases and deadlines for the project
- Present Client Cyber Security Services from a technical and business perspective
- Participate in and deliver POCs as requested by our customers
- Provide updates, optimization and maintenance of security systems and appliances to ensure maximum availability.
- Maintain security runbooks, policies, and solution diagrams as necessary
- Providing guidance and support to Client Cyber Security Services personnel in regard to analytic development, and the continuous improvement of our managed security services landscape in terms of detection engineering
- Ensure the successful delivery of new onboarded customers through maintaining and developing the current baselining process
- Development of new analytics rules within Sentinel to detect potential malicious activity within ingested logs
- Lead phases of requirements gathering, solution design and build on new engagements and security initiatives
**Job Experience & Skills Required**:
**Qualifications**:

- Matric (Grade 12)
- Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
**Experience**:

- 10+ years of professional IT experience
- 5+ years of professional IT experience including experience in information security, in areas such as security operations, intrusion detection, incident analysis, incident handling and platform management
- Hands-on commercial Security Engineering experience in a large Enterprise organization
- Excellent understanding and expertise in Microsoft products (AD, Azure AD, M365, Azure IaaS & PaaS, etc.)
- Good understanding and awareness of ITIL / Service Management
- Working knowledge of Deployments and upgrades
- Experience with scripting languages, primarily PowerShell
- Experience working with Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Demonstrable experience with Azure Monitor/Log Analytics

**Skills & Competencies**:

- Sound knowledge of IT security best practices
- TCP/IP knowledge, networking and security product experience
Firewalls, IDS/IPS and other security related devices produce
- Experience in Linux and Windows system administration
- Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, and prioritization skills
- Experience assisting the development and maintenance of tools, procedures, and documentation
- Customer service

For more information contact:
Shouneez Scheepers
Principal Recruiter: IT



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