Job Description

Who we are:

Irdeto is the world leader in digital platform cybersecurity, empowering businesses to innovate for a secure, connected future. Building on over 50 years of expertise in security, Irdeto's services and solutions protect revenue, enable growth and fight cybercrime in video entertainment, video games, and connected industries including transport, health and infrastructure. Irdeto is the security partner dedicated to empowering a secure world where people can connect with confidence.

With teams and offices around the world, Irdeto's greatest asset is its people - our diversity is celebrated through an inclusive workplace, where everyone has an equal opportunity to drive innovation and contribute to Irdeto's success.

Job Title - IBMS Network and Security Engineer

The Role in Broadcast Managed Services
The Irdeto Managed Services team in Randburg is responsible for the design, commissioning, system integration, system testing, monitoring and operation of the various broadcast and headend components that allow MultiChoice to offer its services to consumers. To that end we're looking to hire for the role of Network and Security Engineer.

As a Network and Security Engineer you will be responsible for the design, configuration, maintenance, and support of Irdeto's broadcast-related network security infrastructure. Daily, you will work proactively and according to best practice to offer services to the Irdeto business. You will be part of a team that is responsible for: 24/7 incident and change management, system support, architecture and network security for all IBMS locations. Standby duties, and occasional travel is required.

The successful candidate has strong technical capabilities, will thrive in a fast-paced high energy environment, is proactive and passionate about delivering world-class deployment and support services to customers; and will work closely with Irdeto Service delivery teams and other key stakeholders within Irdeto, our partners and customers and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.

Your mission at Irdeto:

• Manage Irdeto's Broadcast Networking and Security services (routers, switches, Firewalls) including design, implement, maintain, and support.
• Interface, monitor, and report on Networking and Security functions.
• Interface with Client Security and Networking personnel.
• Develop security risk assessments to identify the impact of vulnerabilities to the environment; recommend mitigating controls; and drive action plans to implement controls in a controlled timeline.
• Manage and successfully complete projects improving the current networking and Security services as necessary ensuring systems operate according to best practices and meet the business needs. Initiate projects as required.
• Review the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.
• Installation and upgrades of new Security and Networking products for local and remote regions and providing on-going support of these systems after implementation.
• Maximising service availability through proactive monitoring - with such a complex network of equipment, many different monitoring systems are in use and it is your responsibility to ensure that the right eyes are always on the right systems to ensure an absolute minimum MTTA (mean-time-to-acknowledge) and MTTR (mean-time-to-repair).
• Maximising service availability through preventative maintenance - systems fail, for whatever reason, and it is your responsibility to ensure that those under your control fail safely when they do, but are optimised through daily/weekly/monthly maintenance to fail as little as possible to ensure a maximum MTBF (mean-time-between-failure).
• 24/7 on-call rotation to provide fast troubleshooting and resolution to any incidents reported.
• Participate in the incident management process and drive the root-cause-analysis procedure for any major incidents that you attend to, to ensure that the stability and recovery procedures on the network are always improving.
• Provide technical, operational support to stakeholders of the systems under your control.

How you can add value to the team

• Develop documentation and reports pertaining to Security and Networking infrastructure.
• Perform daily network maintenance, monitoring, log and system file generation.
• Perform other technical responsibilities as 'backup' to another individual who has primary responsibility for that platform/system/task. Adequate knowledge of the platform/system/task must be acquired and kept current, so the backup role can be performed at any time.
• Provide proactive knowledge transfer to team colleagues on an on-going, ad-hoc basis; additionally, structured knowledge transfer as a result of training or specialist knowledge will periodically be required.
• Continually improve own knowledge base and work performed as an individual.
• Demonstrate an excellent understanding of company and departmental goals and objectives and proactively participate in the identification and implementation of solutions and process or other improvements to benefit the company and department.
• Must be a fast learner. Be able to come up to speed on new applications and technology in a very short amount of time.
• Must be detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• High degree of self-motivation. Must be able to plan and execute work both independently and as a team member.
• Ability to function effectively in a multi-cultural team environment

Knowledge and Skills we hope you bring:

• Minimum 5 years' professional work experience in networking, of which at least 3 years in a similar position in an enterprise.
• Minimum 3 years' working experience with Cisco Networking and Security technologies, specifically:
• Cisco Firewall platforms (ASA, Firepower Threat Defense).
• Cisco Anyconnect VPN and posture.
• Experience with Nessus or another network scanning tool.
• Experience with vendor network and security products and advantage (Checkpoint, Arista, Juniper, Cisco)
• Exposure to penetration testing and associated toolsets.
• Strong experience in network routing (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP), switching, TCP/IP and troubleshooting, packet capture and analysis.
• Obtained CCNA certification is required, CCNP certification is preferred.
• Experience with Active Directory.
• Multicast (IGMP) configuration, support and experience an advantage
• Able to conduct research into new technologies, products, and issues.
• Able to mentor and share information with members on the team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to develop and maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet Irdeto's core values.
• Experience in Conditional Access Systems (CAS) and Scramblers.
• Experience in broadcast video compression of Linear TV for Direct to Home and Digital Terrestrial Television systems.
• Competent user of the Microsoft suite of Office applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint to generate documentation and proposals/presentations.

What you can expect from us:

Our people and culture are the heart of our business, and our values of Trust, Accountability, Agility and Innovation inform what we do, and how we work. We believe in investing in our talented employees and promote collaboration, creativity and innovation, health and well-being across our global workforce.

In addition to competitive remuneration and extensive benefits we offer:

• An international and multicultural environment where diversity and inclusivity are celebrated and embraced
• Professional educational opportunities and training program
• Innovation sabbatical
• Volunteer Day
• State of the art office space
• On the job coaching and mentoring
• Flexible work arrangements - via our Work Hard Anywhere policy.
• Some of us run city marathons and even go on snowboarding trips together!
• Casual Friday? Casual every day!
• US$ 500 net for your home office setup after you passed your trial period
• And many additional perks customized to global locations (canteen, fresh fruit, amazing coffee, parking, on-site gym, yoga room to name a few)

Irdeto encourages applications from people with disabilities, as we provide accommodation on request of the candidates that take part in all aspects of the selection processes.

Welcome to Irdeto!

Irdeto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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