Responsible for the day-to-day operation, administration,and hardening of the system's security tools and controls. Complements the SOCby owning security tooling health, vulnerability and patch remediation,configuration compliance, and audit readiness, so that security controls stayeffective, current, and evidenced.
Key Responsibilities:
Security Tooling Administration
- Administer and maintain security platforms such as TrendMicro (Vision One, Deep Security, Apex One), Tenable, Microsoft Sentinel, and DLP tools
- Deploy and upgrade agents, manage policies, and monitor toolhealth, licensing, and coverage
- Onboard new servers, applications, and log sources intosecurity tooling and SIEM
- Tune policies, detection rules, and exclusions incoordination with the SOC and application teams
Vulnerability & Patch Operations
- Schedule and review vulnerability scans, and validate andprioritise findings by CVSS, exploitability, and asset criticality
- Raise remediation tickets, track them to closure, andescalate overdue items
- Coordinate patch cycles with infrastructure and applicationteams, including emergency patching
- Manage risk acceptance and exception requests withsupporting justification
Hardening & Configuration Compliance
- Apply and verify security baselines (e.g. CIS benchmarks forRHEL, Windows, and cloud) across servers and cloud workloads
- Assess the application impact of hardening controls withapplication teams before rollout
- Monitor configuration drift and track remediation ofnon-compliant assets
Access & Identity Security
- Support periodic access reviews, privileged account audits,and user access recertification
- Review IAM roles and policies (e.g. AWS) againstleast-privilege principles
- Monitor certificate expiry, key management, and secretshygiene
Incident Support
- Support the SOC and incident response team withinvestigation data, tool queries, and containment actions
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and implement resultingcontrol improvements
Governance, Reporting & Audit
- Prepare regular reports on patch compliance, vulnerabilitytrends, hardening status, and tool coverage
- Collect and maintain evidence for audits and compliancechecks (e.g. ISO 27001, government security standards)
- Maintain security SOPs, runbooks, and the security riskregister
- Track security-related change requests and participate inchange advisory discussions
Qualifications:
- Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, ComputerScience, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3-5 years in security operations, security administration,or infrastructure security
- Hands-on experience administering endpoint, XDR, orvulnerability management tools (Trend Micro and Tenable preferred)
- Experience with patch management and configuration hardeningon Linux (RHEL preferred) and Windows
- Working knowledge of AWS security services and sharedresponsibility model
- Preferred certifications: CompTIA Security+, CISSP(associate or full), Microsoft SC-200, AWS Security Specialty
- Nice to have: CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer,Tenable certifications
Skills:
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards(CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK)
- Familiarity with SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, WAF, firewalls, andvulnerability scanners
- Scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible)for compliance checks and reporting
- Working knowledge of ITSM tools (e.g. ServiceNow) and changemanagement processes
- Strong analytical and documentation skills, with the abilityto explain risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to drive remediation across multiple teams andvendors