Engineer, Cyber Security

Standard Bank Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in Africa seeks a skilled professional to automate data ingestion systems and operate its cyber security operational center. The role requires expertise in system administration, programming, and automation, with a focus on maintaining data integrity and security.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology required.
• 3+ years in system administration and data manipulation.
• 1+ years in automation engineering and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate syslog collection servers.
• Write automated Ansible playbooks.
• Collect and ingest data using APIs.

Skills

Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Build and Test Automation

Programming and scripting skills

System administration

Log data analysis

Education

Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Splunk

Job description

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group and an innovative player on the global stage. It offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities and the chance to work alongside talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals to large multinational corporates and institutions. We are passionate about creating growth in Africa, bringing meaningful value to our clients and communities, and creating a sense of purpose for our employees.

Job Description

The role involves providing expertise, knowledge, and technical skills to automate building, testing, and operating data ingestion systems. It includes operating and monitoring the group's cyber security operational centre (CSOC) systems that handle several terabytes of logs daily. The candidate will assist the cyber security incident response team and threat hunters by ingesting and providing access to log data. Experience or interest in cyber security and/or data science is advantageous but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree in Information Technology is required.

Experience

• 3+ years in system administration, programming, and data collection/manipulation.
• 1+ years in automation engineering and CI/CD.
• 1+ years operating services in cloud environments.
• 1+ years in data ingestion, engineering, or analytics roles.

Skills

• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and tools.
• Build and Test Automation: CI/CD pipelines (e.g., git, Azure DevOps).
• Programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Automation engineering tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• System administration (Linux, Containers) and cloud services (Azure, AWS).
• System monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk).
• Log data analysis (Azure Log Analytics, Splunk) and parsing (regular expressions).
• Data ingestion and integration (SQL, REST APIs, event hubs, syslog).
• Technical fault finding, debugging, and resolution skills.

Additional Information

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate syslog collection servers.
• Write automated Ansible playbooks.
• Build and run integration with Azure Logic Apps.
• Collect and ingest data using APIs.

Technical Competencies

• Data analysis
• Debugging and fixing software issues
• Information security management
• IT risk management
• SDLC methodologies and tools
• Technical analysis
• Use of build and test automation
• Code writing skills