(1675) Technical Infrastructure Specialist (Physical Security) - GSMD at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Facilitate workshops independently and consult with business owners and stakeholders in respect of problem definition and the identification of business requirements/needs. 
• Identify and record risks in the physical security infrastructure and configure security settings in line with  design specifications, standards and baselines. 
• Provide subject matter expertise for hardware functional test plans for security systems, including unit integration, system and acceptance testing, to ensure business and specification requirements are met and vulnerabilities or gaps are identified and addressed. 
• Test all security systems prior to the production implementation to ensure proper hardware functionality of the system.
• Maintain the physical security systems applications and infrastructure by applying corrective measures (e.g. patches, upgrades, bug fixes) to ensure optimal performance.
• Take responsibility for driving analysis initiatives from initiation to implementation on projects of low/medium risk with a cycle of up to 18 months.
• Review business processes and procedures, analyse business needs and related data, evaluate potential solutions, and define the associated requirements.
• Elaborate the scope and feasibility of solutions and develop the supporting business case.
• Manage change requirements and supporting specifications, provide the hardware specification and manage acceptance testing. 
• Investigate problems and propose solutions by interacting with users, developers and other stakeholders to ensure security functional hardware improvements and measures.
• Configure complex business processes and tasks within a system, where appropriate, to improve operations and meet business requirements. 
• Integrate security testing and validation processes into the development cycle to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Provide input into the development of system training manuals and training plans, in support of new implementation.
• Define and implement plan of physical electronic security hardware configurations for systems and applications (new and old).

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• A Bachelors’ degree (NQF7) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Security Systems Management, Electronics Security Systems or an equivalent;
• five to eight years’ experience within a physical electronic security system support environment, with at least two to three years’ experience on the Genetec system; and
• knowledge of business continuity and planning, release management, application design and development, information technology transformation and innovation as well as systems integration.