Senior Security Specialist
Permanent
Cape Town
A leading, globally recognized investment firm known for its expertise and established reputation in delivering exceptional financial solutions has a new opening.
The ideal candidate will assist the current team in daily security administration and activities, as well as bolstering their expertise and experience in order to mature the environment to where cyber security focused work is completed quicker, with a greater focus on the technical intricacies of configuration management, vulnerability management, assessments and remediation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Cyber hardening
- Remediation of Internal and external security assessments
- Red team / blue team assessments
- Purple teaming
- Security/forensic investigations
- Firewall rule management and remediating assessments
- Security configuration across the server estate
- Remediation of assessment findings
- Securing the external perimeter configurations
- Securing the internal environment configurations
- DMZ (demilitarised zone) configuration
- Assuming the role of a threat actor
- Security software stack
- Email security
- Cloud security (Azure etc)
- Data protection
- Remediation of penetration testing
- Security Reporting
- Security documentation
- User, data and system access
- Change control
Ideal Experience Required:
- 10 years security specific work experience
- Server infrastructure would be a plus (VMware, Microsoft server stack software) AD, FortiGate FWs, EDR, ATD, AV, Sandboxing, Forensic Tools, SIEM, SOC knowledge
- The ability to handle pressure situations and have a practical and logical thought process.