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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