Cybersecurity Operations Specialist

4 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa BETSoftware Full time

At BETSoftware, we are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to join our team in Gauteng. This is a full-time position with a rotational schedule of 365 days, 7 days a week, and 24 hours a day.

We offer an estimated salary of R250,000 per annum, commensurate with experience.

About the Job

This role involves monitoring and analyzing cybersecurity events to detect potential threats and escalating where necessary. You will analyze security breaches to identify root causes and escalate to intermediate security analysts for resolutions. Services monitored will include SIEM, IDS/IPS, Firewall, Web Application Firewalls, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Databases.

You will also be responsible for security event correlation and reporting to relevant sources, researching current IT security trends and news, recognizing potential intrusion attempts and compromises through event reviews and analyses, helping colleagues install security software and understand information security management, monitoring that all security tools are working properly, researching security enhancements and making recommendations to management, updating inaccurate knowledge base documents, handling escalations effectively, acknowledging alerts and closing them at the end of every shift, investigating alerts using provided systems, adding investigation details to escalated incident descriptions, and reporting back on identified trends and proactive actions taken to reduce spam.

As a Cybersecurity Operations Specialist, you will work with advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities. If you have a strong analytical mind, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work in a dynamic environment, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Required Skills and Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need:



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