Engineer, Cyber Security (Linux Engineer)

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To provide expertise, professional knowledge, and technical skills to automate building, testing and operating data ingestion systems. To operate and monitor the group's cyber security operational centre (CSOC) systems that collect and manages logs every day. To assist the cyber security incident response team and threat hunters by ingesting and providing access to log data. Any experience and interest in cyber security and/or data science is an advantage but not essential.

• A degree in Information Technology

Experience Required: 

• 3+ years experience in system administration, programming and data collection/manipulation.
• 1+ years in scripting / automation engineering and CI/CD.
• 1+ years in operating services with cloud environments.
• 1+ years in data ingestion, engineering or analytic roles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain an operate syslog collection servers
• Write automate ansible playbooks
• Build and run integration Azure Logic Apps
• Collect and ingest data using APIs

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Exploring Possibilities
• Generating Ideas
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Meeting Timescales
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Debugging and Fixing Software
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools
• Technical Analysis
• Build and Test Automation
• System Administration \ Availability and Monitoring - Linux
• Write Code