Senior Specialist Security at Vodacom

Role Purpose

• The successful candidate will be a member of the Operational Support team, required to effectively manage the organisations’ network services, in particular the IT Security environment, which include all levels of Firewall Security and Network Access Management.  

Your responsibilities will include:

• Perform an administration support role in terms of, but not limited to the following:
• Service Support and management of the IT Security environment
• Activation, migration and termination of FW Access services
• On-going health-checks of the IT Security Environment
• Effectively drive and support the quest for process and operational excellence

Key principles are:

• Seek perfection 
• Assure quality at the source 
• Focus on process 
• Adhere to Corporate Governance and Compliance
• Think systemically 
• Create constancy of purpose
• Customer service
• Support and create value for the customer
• Be a key player in creating and delivering products that customers want in order to establish perpetual business growth
• Ensure that all queries are resolved according to predefined service level

Relationship management 

• To maintain and manage good relationships with support team, vendors and customers. 
• Perform an operational support role IT Network team and stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance control systems /databases

Reporting
Pull and prepare reports from various systems for the preparation of monthly management and adhoc reporting
Communication written and verbal

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Must have comprehensive knowledge with Cisco Firewalls, Routers and Switches. 
• Must have comprehensive knowledge of Cisco Network Access Control. 
• Must have comprehensive knowledge of Corporate Governance Audit controls
• Must have comprehensive knowledge of PCI and SOX. 
• Proven experience in managing a global network (WAN & LAN) with VPN and APN connectivity to 3rd Parties.
• Proven experience in the design and implementation of network security and hardware infrastructures.
• Advanced knowledge of high availability, redundancy and interoperability of Cisco ASA and network access management products.
• Proven hands on experience and active primary responsibility of an organizations IT Security infrastructure.
• Experience in dealing with change management, logging, monitoring and maintaining accurate shared documentation relating to the network environment.
• Able to analyse data or alerts collected from device and correct any abnormalities detected.
• Strong passion for security, understanding application weakness, and designing solutions to protect against these.

Education & Experience

• Matric Certificate essential
• Relevant IT/engineering related 3yr degree or 3yr diploma (Essential)
• CCSP Certified essential, CCIE Security advantageous
• 5-8 yrs. experience within IT industry and/or a system/network security admin role – essential, inclusive of:
• 3-5 years relevant experience essential within telecommunication industry
• 5-8 years working experience with Cisco ASA and NAC products in a supervisory role and architectural role

Closing date for Applications: 15 July 2021