IT Security Engineer – Edgemead - R20,000 - R25,000 per month

IT Security Engineer – Edgemead - R20,000 - R25,000 per month

Requirements:

• Formal Qualifications as Security Engineer and appropriate experience.
• Matric.

Responsibilities:

• On Job training when required.
• Develop and carry out information security plans and policies.
• Develop strategies to respond to and recover from a security breach.
• Develop or implement open-source/third-party tools to assist in detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.
• Awareness training of the workforce on information security standards, policies and best practices.
• Implement protections.
• Installation and use of firewalls, data encryption and other security products and procedures
• Conduct periodic network scans to find any vulnerability.
• Conduct penetration testing, simulating an attack on the system to find exploitable weaknesses.
• Monitor networks and systems for security breaches, through the use of software that detects intrusions and anomalous system behavior.
• Investigate security breaches.
• Lead incident response, including steps to minimize the impact and then conducting a technical and forensic investigation into how the breach happened and the extent of the damage.

Competencies:

• Expertise in anti-virus software, intrusion detection, firewalls and content filtering.
• Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies and methods.
• Expertise in designing secure networks, systems and application architectures.
• Disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies and methods.
• Planning, researching and developing security policies, standards and procedures.
• System administration, supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Expertise with mobile code, malicious code and anti-virus software.
• The IT Security Engineer should also have experience with and knowledge of:
• Endpoint security solutions, including file integrity monitoring and data loss prevention
• AWS and cloud platform as a service (PaaS) security.
• Automating security testing tools.
• Chef – a configuration management tool.
• Git – a tool that helps track anomalous changes to files.

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