We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior ICT Infrastructure Engineer (cyber security tools related) to join our cyber security operations team. The ideal candidate will play a key role in maintaining our organisation's technology stack. The role involves focusing on security and compliance, operational efficiency, and service excellence – keeping organisation cyber safe.
Key Responsibilities
Thisrole ensures the security posture of critical systems through proactivemonitoring, incident response, system maintenance, and implementation ofsecurity enhancements across the organisation's technology stack.
Bepart of a team that is responsible for managingand maintaining the cyber security operations of organisation:
- Lead Vulnerability Management (VM) of assigned cyber security tools, includingproactive monitoring of vulnerabilities, planning remediation schedules,adhering to vulnerability deadlines and seeking deviations via Risk Assessment(RA).
- Lead security compliance through regular system hardening, configurationmanagement, and policy enforcement.
- Lead IT lifecycle management.
- Ensure timely andsuccessful updates and upgrades whilst ensuring minimal disruption to businessoperations.
- Plan downtime and collaborate with cross-functional teams for system updatesand upgrades.
- Support regular audits and perform remediation actions.
- Workclosely with vendors.
- Provideoperations support, in a multi-vendor network including Critical InformationInfrastructure (CII).
- Participate inDisaster Recovery (DR) exercise and contribute to architectural planning formanaged security tools in cloud environments.
- Manage tool setups and migrations.
- Create, maintain andreview technical documentation, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) as part ofKnowledge Management (KM).
- Driveefficiencies through automation.
- Proactive documentation as part of Knowledge Management (KM).
- Occasionally provide after-hours support including weekendsas required.
What we are looking for
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations and security tool management.
- Excellent knowledge and proven hands-on ability in operating Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools such as CyberArk.
- Good vendor management skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skillswith demonstrated ability to influence and communicate effectivelywith non-technical audiences including management.
- Applicants are expected to manage work in fast-paced environments, acrossheterogeneous networks including cloud environments, some of which are CriticalInformation Infrastructure (CII).
- CyberArk CDE is a mandatory requirement for this role.
Preferred Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience
- Proven ability to manage and maintain cyber securityoperations.
- Good fundamental knowledge and familiarity with Security Incident EventManagement (SIEM) and Vulnerability Management (VM) tools including Splunk andNessus (by Tenable), respectively.
- Experience with automation tools and scripting (Ansible, Python, PowerShell) to automate repetitive tasks.
- Experience with security standards and compliance frameworks (IM8, CSA guidelines).
- Experience in harnessing AI solutions to continuously improve cyber security operations efficiency, including processes and service delivery, is advantageous.
- Experience in demonstrating AI literacy with the ability to use AI tools responsibly, ethically, and securely, ensuring compliance with organizational policies, data privacy, confidentiality, and governance requirements.
- Understanding of financial sector security requirements and regulations.
- Understanding in Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts.
