Job Description

Company based in Bree Street, Cape Town

Industry - Telecommunications

Permanent

Please forward your updated CV to Michelle - kindo.m@abcworldwide.com

Resilience Analyst

This role will be responsible for providing technical and operational resilience advice and guidance with a focus on the Group wide organisation. This candidate will be involved in multiple change projects and be responsible for producing and publishing tailored resilience plans and guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing resilience advice, requirements and guidance to the business when delivering new systems or updates to existing.
• Performing resilience focused risk assessment on new systems/services and changes to existing to ensure they are within risk tolerance.
• Working with the business to review existing BIA/ BCPs designs and ensure that they are in line with existing resilience principles and the operational needs of the business
• Support/ input to the Group Incident Management Process.
• Manage the schedule of testing for all in scope BC and DR plans
• Ensure testing reports produced for the testing schedule in point 5 above.
• Liaise with the Risk Management function to ensure all risk drivers are updated and incorporated into the Resilience Risk Appetite
• Undertake ad hoc projects/ support the production of relevant reports and Mi.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Risk, computer science, IT engineering, or related field
• An MSc Information Security or equivalent would be an advantage.
• Information Security and/or Information Technology certifications such as CISSP etc. are preferred.
• Experience of common frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO27k and MITRE
• Be able to pragmatically review and understand where the resilience risk could outweigh the business benefits.
• Help make the business understand the importance of considering reliance in new products/ operations
• Ability to support the business in the delivery of resilience requirements.
• Ability to deconstruct complex environments and navigate conflicting project requirements.
• Work with the wider security team to mature security risk and resilience processes
• Ability to work independently, under general guidance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to exercise mature judgement.
• Organised with a proven ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines, and utilise time effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Prior experience working in a resilience function is essential.
• Prior experience of working as a resilience analyst is essential.

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