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

 

Recruiter:

West Coast Personnel

Job Ref:

CWAD0905-2

Date posted:

Monday, September 5, 2022

Location:

edgemead, Western Cape, South Africa

Salary:

R20,000 - R25,000 per month


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

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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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