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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist information technology security expertise.Job Description
Are you ready to make a difference?
Our Chief Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Risk, Cyber, Resilience, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines.
You will be focused on the research and evaluation of security solutions and technologies, including the design and delivery of security solutions via the formal engagement of the Security Risk and Architecture teams and in rare instances, direct engagement via the business drivers.
\What you’ll get to do:
The role is within the Chief Security Office your responsibilities will include the following:
Review of proposed security technical designs and provide technical expertise
Evaluate, test and pilot new security tools following the formal engagement of Security Risk and/or business drivers
Install, operate, automate and troubleshoot network security related controls such as IPS, NAC, WAF, Firewalls, Proxy, etc.
Analyze network traffic, log files and create risk-related stories
Perform system upgrades, patching and vulnerability remediation
Remediate incidents, including outside of working hours
Perform standby duties
Implement automation on network security controls & analysis
Develop detailed technical configuration documents, working closely with the security architecture and standards group
Support of Security Risk and Architecture in the secure delivery of products both emerging and updating of existing solutions as per business needs
Review and evaluation of new security architectures and designs
Combine the knowledge of security technology evaluations and emerging products with security business needs
Ability to work with other engineers both internally and external to Absa; learning and evaluating emerging technologies
Ability to manage vendor relationships knowing due diligence goes beyond just the technology and engaging with the right business people to ensure Absa fully leverages vendor relationships
What do you need to get in?
NQF level 6 B Degree
8 years (technical/lead) experience in technology
6 years Security Engineering experience preferably within a large financial institution
Industry & Vendor certifications – NAC, WAF, SANS, ISACA, Checkpoint, Cisco, RSA etc. preferred
Excellent understanding of security strategies and technologies including but not limited to secure global network designs, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, etc.
Knowledge in multiple information security technologies and their strengths and shortcomings
Experience with securing information for cross-functional, cross-platform applications
Monitors marketplace trends, vulnerabilities, emergent threats and audit/control issues
Knows what should be communicated and when
Actively seeks ways to understand and mitigate risk
Able to shift well from task to task
If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Security by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.
Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.
We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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