Information Security Specialist (Networks/F5/Cybersecurity) at REDi Recruitment

Job description

Key Result Areas

• Provide strategic thinking and contributions to crafting of departmental business plan based on professional knowledge and experience, to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy
• Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets
• Ensure consistent results are delivered by continuous measurement against standards and SLAs
• Ensure delivery of the application services based aspects of the Information security roadmap
• Provide input into the formalisation for the divisional budget
• Ensure own deliverables stay within the agreed project scope, timelines and budget
• Contribute to the design and evolution of the Enterprise Architecture Information Security precepts in the mitigation of current and future threats to existing technology systems and services and those being considered for adoption by providing thought leadership, guidance and specialist input through information security knowledge and fit for purpose product suggestions
• Ensure systems, products or projects delivered contributes to improve client service by providing input on budgets, resources required and process based on the understanding of costs, business objectives and relationship with external suppliers and stakeholders
• Contribute as professional taking responsibility for both operational and strategic initiatives
• Ensure collaboration with the ISO (Information security Officer, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architects, Application developers, other ITD teams and other stakeholders
• Act as the security ambassadors in the community by propagating security awareness across all staff at all opportunities to get buy in from the community

Role Requirements

• Required qualification: University degree or equivalent IT work experience. Certification / Qualification in Information Systems e.g. certified ethical hacker (CEH) and Network Security Administrator (NSA) or certified applications tester, F5.
• 7 years IT work experience including 3+ years Information Security Specialist experience
• Software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
• Knowledge in Microsoft Visio (Process flows)
• Penetration testing principals and methodologies
• Penetration testing techniques and tools (Burp, Metasploit, Wireshark, John the Ripper, Cain & Abel, Kali, Nmap)
• Software Development Lifecycle (Agile Adaptive & Waterfall Predictive)
• Industry standard test and defect management tools (MTM, TFS)
• Intermediate programming knowledge
• Intermediate database knowledge