Resilience Engineer at Old Mutual

Supports the IT organization in developing, implementing and maintaining stable and resilient IT environment by driving best practice and instilling the appropriate level of quality assurance, governance and compliance relating to: End-to-end Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, Backups, High Availability, Unsupported Systems, Vulnerability Management, Capacity Management, Strategic Fit, Architecture Documentation and Single Point of Failures. The role will fundamentally support the Lead Resilience Engineer.

Main Responsibilities

• Ensures compliance to IT requirements through proper communication, regular practice checks. This includes all new IT projects, production applications and application enhancements.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert in IT methodologies, policies and standards relating to End-to-end Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, Backups, High Availability, Unsupported Systems, Vulnerability Management, Capacity Management, Strategic Fit, Architecture Documentation and Single Point of Failures. He/she will be the steward of IT these artifacts. New and existing services must align with the documented policies, processes and standards
• Coordinates with internal stakeholders on technology compliance. Represents IT from, but not limited to, Information Security, recovery and technology risk perspective. Ensures proper analysis and timely findings/responses/mitigation in a consistent and factual manner; establish & follow the escalation or reporting process.
• Ensures IT service compliance and resilience through regular monitoring, analysis, investigation and proposing technical recommendation for the strengthening and protection of business technological assets, data, etc
• Preparing and presenting progress reports on the current state of the IT risk and control environment.
• Support the identification of improvement opportunities of the curriculum. Develop and present proposals to Lead Resilience Engineer to articulate opportunity, benefits and risks to organization, as well as provide and implement options and plans.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• A Bachelor degree holder in Information Technology or any business technology related field
• Familiar with ICT Business e.g., Consulting, Managed Services, Cloud Services, etc
• Exposed in facets of IT e.g., Projects, Delivery Support, Infrastructure, Software Development, etc.
• At least 3 years relevant experience in Industry standards for IT Governance and controls frameworks e.g., COBIT, ITIL/ITSM, Project and Software Development, ISO, InfoSec/Data Privacy, among others
• Must have performed an IT audit or familiar with Information Security, Data Privacy, Information Systems Audit requirements and other IT risk management or due diligence practices
• Communications skills at all levels (written, spoken, presentation, etc.)

Additional Qualifications/Experience (preferred, Not a Requirement)

• CBCI/AMBCI
• Business Resilience

Competencies Required

• Customer First (Practice)
• Executing (Practice)
• Innovation (Practice)
• Leading with Influence
• Learning
• Relating
• Strategic