Cyber Security Lead

Summary of role:

This role is accountable for the detection, response and
recovery services related to Cyber Security. It is a temporary role which will
hand over to the final permanent candidate that will be in place by the end of
this contract. The individual would need to manage cyber related threats
(actual or perceived), as well as be able to build and sustain a team that
addresses these threats through the lifecycle. The individual will be
responsible for threat intelligence, incident management, identity and access management,
incident response, advanced threat detection, application security and cyber
security assurance.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for security event monitoring,
  management, and response
  
• Ensure incident identification, assessment,
  quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation, and monitoring
  
• Ensure compliance to SLA and process adherence to achieve
  operational objectives across all service partners appointed.
  
• Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current
  Security Operations Framework, review policies and highlight the challenges in
  managing SLAs.
  
• Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use
  of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for the
  Security Operations Centre (SOC).
  
• Management, administration & maintenance of security
  devices.
  
• Perform threat management, threat modelling, identify
  threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.
  
• Perform proficient threat analysis determination.
  
• Responsible for integration of standard and non -standard
  logs in SIEM.
  
• Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for presentation
  to stakeholders covering all security operations domains.
  
• Ensure that IT audits are effectively managed and
  coordinated across all auditors and key stakeholders.
  
• Partner, build and maintain positive working
  relationships with stakeholders.
  
• Plays a lead role on Project Savvy.
  
• Defines and releases security awareness as required
  across the Group.
  
• Protecting the cloud environment and ensuring that
  configurations are set up.
  

Requirements

• Matric and a Tertiary degree
  
• 10 -15 years' experience in leading cyber security
  operations
  
• Relevant finance/internal audit qualifications
  
• Proficient in Incident Management and Response
  
• Experience in security device management and SIEM
  
• Experience in threat management
  
• Knowledge of various operating systems, including but not
  limited to Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and
  leadership skills.
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive alignment
  across diverse teams
  
• Technical capability - Proficient in cyber security
  controls, assessments and third -party management.
  
• People management – Ability to manage effectively performance and guide the team.
  
• Integrity and Ethics - Display high levels of integrity
  and trust as well as exercise professional judgment objectively and
  independently.
  
• Communication – Ability to demonstrate excellent
  communication skills - both oral and written.
  
• Innovation – Ability to pursue innovative actively solutions to the cyber security team and business. Provide input the
  future strategic direction of cyber security.