Chief Information Security Specialist

2 days ago


Roodepoort, South Africa RJPersonnel Full time

4years
- Submit benefits case to initiate information security related projects, conduct rigorous evaluation and selection of appropriate technical solutions, secure required IT spend approval
- Own and drive the annual PCI DSS re-certification exercise
- Ensure continuous process improvement of information security management
- Manage and improve incident response capability to proactively identify and mitigate against IT security risks or incidents, and recover from disruptive and destructive information security events
- Lead the IT security team responsible for day to day security and operational tasks, logical user access management, access certification review campaigns, including management of resource allocation and duties
- Provide information security input for architecture designs
- Manage and coordinate remediation of IT audit findings by implementing supporting IT security controls and processes
- Conduct the information security risk assessment programme, supported by vulnerability assessments and facilitating independent penetration testing
- Function as an internal ITSec consulting resource for other business units on information security
- Manage suppliers, partners and vendors to ensure adherence to security requirement
- Support the Information Officer on data governance related issues

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- 4 to 6 years Information Security experience (essential)
- One or more of CISSP, CISM, OSCP/CEH (essential),
- Practical experience with information security concepts, frameworks, methodologies, legislative and regulatory requirements (NIST, PCI DSS, POPIA)
- Experience with infrastructure and network architecture technical design, security and management (firewalls, routers, switches, IDS, IPS, cloud computing, mobile device management, virtualisation)
- Practical knowledge and understanding of information security tools, network security systems, host diagnostics, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, threat assessments, report writing and documentation across multiple platforms
- Experience in implementing and configuring security systems, tools and programs e.g. SIEM, vulnerability scanning, coordinating penetration testing
- Understanding of the full security stack and supporting technologies
- Basic scripting skills (e.g. bash, python, powershell)
- Understanding of threat analysis



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