Job Description

We are a dynamic multinational technology organisation committed to innovation, security, and excellence. As a leader in our industry, we are seeking a high performance driven individual to manage our Cybersecurity and Infrastructure. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the protection of our assets, manage our digital infrastructure, and lead our cybersecurity initiatives.
Main Duties

• Day-to-Day Operations: Implementing and overseeing strategies to assess and mitigate risk, safeguarding the corporation and its assets, and crisis management.

• Security: Developing, implementing, and maintaining security processes and policies, identifying and reducing risks, and limiting liability and exposure to informational, physical, and financial risks.

• Compliance: Working with a legal/compliance team, or being independently responsible for ensuring the company complies with local, national, and global regulations, especially in areas like privacy.

• Innovation: Conducting research and executing security management solutions to help keep the organization safe.

• Head the procurement of all infrastructure including hardware, software, network and related, including security services comparison NSOC, SIEM, Anti virus, Malware and related.

• Manage the cyber awareness training across the enterprise, with continued testing of the application of these knowledge areas using various methodologies and tools
• Establish and Maintain a Knowledge Management system on infrastructure and security related incidents, using this to drive resiliency of security framework and internal training.
• Managing the SLA of Third Party Service providers, ensuring that they perform within agreed contractual obligations.

• Managing and maintaining the organisations Firewall.

• Analyze, plan, manage, implement, maintain, schedule, and monitor the Digital Infrastructure Across All African operating entities

• Actively participate in the design of new and maintenance of system architecture with regard to security related considerations, inline with best practise.

• Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, print services, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly

• Monitor cloud health (specifically AWS, but also GCP) using preexisting management tools and respond to issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed

• Maintain internal infrastructure requirements including, servers, routers, switches, firewalls, printers, phones, security updates; support internet, intranet, LANs, WANs, VPNs and network segments

• Interact with the help desk, development team and other teams to assist in troubleshooting, identify root cause, and provide technical support when needed

• Perform routine/scheduled audits of the systems, including all backups

• New security threats pop up all the time, and IT security professionals need to stay up to date with the latest tactics hackers are employing in the field. In addition to the high-level responsibilities mentioned above, some specific duties IT security teams do, include:

Set and implement user access controls and identity and access management systems
Monitor network and application performance to identify and irregular activity
Perform regular audits to ensure security practices are compliant
Deploy endpoint detection and prevention tools to thwart malicious hacks
Set up patch management systems to update applications automatically
Implement comprehensive vulnerability management systems across all assets on-premises and in the cloud
Work with IT operations to set up a shared disaster recovery/business continuity plan
Work with HR and/or team leads to educate employees on how to identify suspicious activity * Ad hoc duties as required from time to time

• Matric

• AWS System Administration & Cloud Certification required, with expert knowledge on administering Kubernetes Clusters.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Advantageous

• Information Security and /or Information Technology industry certification (CISSP-ISSAP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, GIAC or equivalent) strongly preferred

• Experience is configuring firewalls (Fortigate or similar)

• 7-9 years of network administration, or system administration experience, with security as a portfolio

• System administration and IT certifications in Linux, Microsoft, or other network-related fields are a plus

• Working knowledge of virtualization, VMWare, or equivalent

• Cloud exposure, with a focus on AWS and networking security such as VPCs

• Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols

• Strong VPN experience across various hardware and software implementations such as OpenVPN

• Experience with scripting and automation tools

• A proven track record of developing and implementing IT strategy and plans

• Strong knowledge of implementing and effectively developing helpdesk and IT operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery protocols

Benefits
We need individuals who commit to and are a role models for Korridors Values:

• We say it, mean it, do it

• We find a way

• We change the game

• We help each other thrive

At Korridor, we believe in growing our people and allowing them to become the best possible versions of themselves as well as to grow with the organisation, if they want it and work hard for it.