South African Reserve Bank IT / Telecom Jobs in Pretoria
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Brief description
The main purpose of this position is to research, design, develop, implement and mature cybersecurity operations (CSO)-related technologies and solutions within the Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD) at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
Detailed description
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:
- Provide technical expertise as input into cybersecurity capabilities and appropriate controls for departmental/SARB Group projects to contribute towards business objectives.
- Provide operational and management support through effective reporting and dashboard creation (where relevant).
- Design and deploy industry-aligned security solutions to meet business requirements.
- Use and maintain security technologies to identify potential security issues across technologies, solutions and applications within the SARB Group.
- Respond to minor security breaches by effecting operational countermeasures, including making technical configuration changes.
- Support the investigation and containment of major incidents using advanced information.
- Innovate, design and implement opportunities for improvements/enhancements, integration, consolidation and automation, to ensure the cost-effective and optimal use of CSO technology as well as resources in support of protecting business solutions.
- Research and keep abreast of new and changing cybersecurity technologies and architectures.
- Scan the external threat landscape and identify vulnerabilities within SARB Group’s solutions.
- Assist solution owners with remediation activities relating to the ever-evolving cyber-threats.
- Provide technical input into addressing audit findings, penetration tests, TIBER and other risk assessments.
- Work closely with the governance teams to develop policies, standards and a SARB Group cybersecurity strategy.
- Attend to service and incident requests, and ensure the resolution thereof within agreed service level standards.
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Qualifications
Job requirements
To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
- the minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
- the minimum of 5–7 years of job-related experience working in a security operations environment and related systems, for example:
- AD (Active Directory);
- Microsoft (MS) Entra ID (Azure) and M365 Could Security;
- PowerShell Scripting;
- Certification Authority;
- Mimecast;
- Center for Internet Security (CIS) policy management;
- Silverfort (UIP);
- Tenable; and/or
- password management solutions.
The following would be an added advantage:
- a relevant cybersecurity certification such as CompTIA CASP+; and/or
- technology-specific certifications.
Additional requirements include:
- industry, organisational and business awareness;
- quality assurance knowledge and skills;
- continuous improvement;
- continued improvement and/or professional development;
- networking security knowledge;
- testing knowledge;
- operations knowledge;
- effective communication skills;
- analytical and problem-solving skills;
- judgement and decision-making skills;
- a drive for results;
- a learning focus;
- a team focus;
- planning and organising;
- a service and stakeholder focus; and
- building and maintaining relationships.
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