Manager - Security Operations at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• Responsible to manage the technologies for the various business units to ensure they deliver outcomes that support the objectives of the business. This includes the day-to-day management of the IT relating to systems and/or equipment.
• Leading and Managing Privileged Access Management(PAM), IDN, Endpoint Security and Datacentre Security teams. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement tactical delivery plans and set operational targets to achieve an IT strategy that aligns with Business direction and objectives
• Analyse and anticipate tactical strategy and practice issues and proactively develop alternatives to enhance the quality of IT solutions whilst aligning to policies and guidelines.
• Continuously track and measure the delivery of operational plans, realign and improve where required
• Proactively plan for practice & operational IT delivery changes, identify priorities and associated resources needed and monitor applied changes
• Realign strategies and objectives through the use of insights and knowledge gained through reporting measures
• Drive delivery of capabilities required to enable new service or technologies that enables business strategies
• Drive the implementation of the Information Security Service Catalogue i.e. a business view of the services provided by IT
• Monitor and measure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between IT and Strategic partners and contractors.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Promote and align to the new ways of work and drive a culture of continuous improvement within IT
• Collaborate and develop effective relationships within IT and the organisation to deliver business and IT objectives and ultimately create a competitive advantage
• Enable the provision of a robust, stable, performant applications environment that support and enable business related operational tactics.
• Manage, build & maintain a holistic view of the IT security systems, processes, information & IT assets as it relates to hosted systems & infrastructure.
• Advise on and oversee the implementation of security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorised damage, modification or disclosure.
• Ensure the right resources are available and in place with appropriate support to achieve the business requirements.
• Identify trends and patterns to ascertain root causes to technical challenges and highlight specific remediation's that will maintain and/or enhance quality & service standards.

Minimum Experience

• 8 - 10 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at senior management level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degree and Advanced Diploma in Information Technology and Computer Sciences CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)