Senior Security Specialist at AVBOB South Africa

Key Performance Areas:

• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the security systems, that supports the system.
• Assist in the management and support of product integration services with multiple business partners, including real-time web services and batch processing.
• Assist in managing the corporate systems in a racked Windows/Intel environment, including the following: Windows 2003, Windows XP, Active Directory, GroupWise, MS Terminal Services, DNS services, spam filters, intrusion detection systems, Cisco VPN and firewalls and VMWare servers.
• Server hardware provisioning including configuration and deployment.
• Data backup management, scheduling and reporting for both internal corporate systems and data centre systems.
• Design, configure, and maintain the WAN and VPN network infrastructure components; trouble-shoots network to diagnose system problems; identifies, locates, resolves, and repairs problems; installs and configures software upgrades, file sharing, and domain security protocols.
• Plans, develops, and designs WAN and VPN network management and maintenance projects, including policies and procedures, operational improvements, backup and archival files, and evaluates new technology integration.
• Coordinates operations activities with other departments and service providers; designs and implements WAN and VPN’s, connectivity issues and cabling systems.
• Responsible for providing trend analysis to management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management.
• Monitors utilization trends, manages network performance, and assures maximum uptime; performs on-going analysis, capacity planning, and technical tuning of the network systems to improve performance.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or 3 Year National Diploma or equivalent professional qualifications.
• ITIL certification
• Cisco firewall certification / background
• CNE/CCNA certification is desirable.
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning firewalls to provide a high availability service.
• Practical experience in managing internal and external database security.

Knowledge and Experience

• 4 Years’ experience supporting complex networks with UNIX servers, Microsoft servers, Cisco firewalls, VMWare, DNS services, spam filters, and VPN management.
• 4 Years’ experience in managing Cisco security appliances / network
• 4 Years’ experience supporting enterprise class applications in production environments certificates, licenses, registrations.
• Knowledge in implementing highly complex security / network environments.
• Working knowledge of web services, web application development, MS SQL, LAN and WAN.
• Experience of managing multiple MS Windows server 2008 / 2012 systems.
• Experience in monitoring and tuning firewalls to provide a high availability service.
• Experience in managing internal and external database security