Sr Consultant, Information Security (remote) GCC Africa at TransUnion

What You'll Bring:

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight, guidance and subject matter expertise to technology, project and business teams.
• Proactively engage product and business owners to ensure they understand and deliver security requirements, comply with audit expectations and support risk remediation activities.
• Ensure controls are identified and implemented throughout each stage of product development and enterprise change.
• Identification, mitigation and management of security risks.
• Provide training and mentoring to team members in addition to technical workshops with key stakeholders within the technology and security teams.
• Run awareness activities to ensure continuous improvements to the security culture for the organisation.
• Review application security scans and provide remediation advice to product owners and developers.
• Evaluate the effectiveness and coverage of security products and tooling to continuously monitor and protect company assets.
• Support ISO27001, PCI DSS and other internal and external audit programmes.
• Support the continuous improvement of security policies and standards.
• Support clients with any security related queries raised.

Key Tasks:

• Working with project and product teams, providing support and guidance to ensure compliance with security policy and standards.
• Perform security assessments with recommendations to mitigate and reduce risk.
• Working with technology and security teams, driving initiatives such as vulnerability assessment and penetration testing workstreams.
• Implement and improve technical processes to create efficient and secure methodologies.
• Support the management and investigation of security events including post incident reviews in conjunction with other security teams.

Impact You'll Make:

Essential Skills & Experience:

• CISSP qualified, or similar qualification or proven relevant experience
• Proven track record in an IT Security role
• Strong understanding of technical security risk, threat, and vulnerability management principles
• Ability to drive own workload identifying risks and requirements working flexibly where required
• Willingness to learn and undertake formal and informal training should it be required
• It is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day-to-day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment. You can be based anywhere in South Africa and will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.
• A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required, should you be successful, you will need to upgrade your line in order to work effectively.