Job Description

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary To provide specialist advice & support in the development & implementation of IT security service delivery processes, methods and techniques enabling secure management & control of IT access, in alignment with governance requirements.



Are you ready to make a difference?

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.

What youxe2x80x99ll get to do:

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

Create trustworthy user experiences by building interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, performant and reliable

Configure, test, pilot and rollout new user-facing experiences in modern tools

Ensuring that platforms, with architecture input, are maintained in the most current state and not allowed to become obsolete

Develop detailed technical configuration documents, working closely with the security architecture, risk management and standards groups

Developing, maintaining, and updating internal process documentation

Provide support to internal Absa projects

Provide platform related reports periodically

Perform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for the platforms

Respond to platforms related incidents within the defined SLA times

Provide standby support for the platforms on weekends/holidays as per the roster

Combine the knowledge of security technology evaluations and emerging products with security business needs

Ability to work with other engineers both internally and external to Absa

Ability to manage vendor relationships knowing due diligence goes beyond just the technology and engaging with the right business people to ensure Absa fully leverages vendor relationships

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

Minimum of 5 years experience

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

Certifications in MS200 and/or MS365 would be an added advantage

If youxe2x80x99re 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: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (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

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