Senior Manager: Cybersecurity (Platforms) at Absa

Job Summary

Our Converged Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Risk, Cyber, Resilience, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines. It also carries the responsibility of owning, operationally supporting and maintaining specialist security services to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of infrastructure and information to our customers in order to meet industry and regulatory requirements and good practice.

You will be tasked with the development of tactical strategy and delivery plans, practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. cybersecurity risk methodology, enabling the provision of specialist information technology security expertise and delivery objectives.

Job Description

What you’ll get to do:

The role is within the Security Operations team and your responsibilities will include the following:

• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships for the purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration

• Develop tactical strategies for the integration of service excellence culture, which enables exceptional service to customers that meets and exceeds exceptional service across a single practice

• Anticipate tactical strategy and practice issues for a single practice and proactively develop solutions to enhance the quality of problem resolution

• Develop a plan for single practice changes and specify the priorities of delivery plans and resources needed that puts a premium on simplicity, agility, innovation and incorporates the understanding of customer needs

• Develop, align and implement a tactical strategy and guidelines/standards within a single practice

• Analyse, interpret and produce detailed reports that explain trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies

• Develop appropriate solutions to identified losses and risk exposures and ensure the effective implementation thereof

• Communicate a meaningful tactical context that guides and directs best practice integration and process alignment with service delivery objectives

• Develop appropriate solutions to identified losses and risk exposures and ensure the effective implementation thereof

• Implement corporate governance and compliance policies in a single practice area in order to identify and manage risk liabilities

• Contribute to the setting of budgets, minimise expenditure and manage costs and assets effectively

• Develop, implement and monitor a cycle of medium-term cost improvements

• Leadership of a specialist business-critical team

• Create an engaging, enabling and productive work climate aligned to the employee value proposition

• Develop and implement single-practice change management initiatives

What do you need to get in?

• Minimum B-degree (Computer & Life Sciences) | Advanced Diplomas in Cyber

• CISSP, CRISC, CISA or other relevant certifications preferred

• 5 - 8 years’ experience with 2 – 3 years at management level

• Knowledge and experience in Security Platforms and/or Network Security

• People management experience

If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Security by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Services (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised