Job Description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for regular oversight of program management and operations, and reporting program status to his/her manager.
• Coordinate with enterprise-wide teams to provide installation, configuration, engineering, administration, and accreditation documents/diagrams for the IDPS solution life cycle. This may include replacements upgrades, enhancements, and new technology deployments.
• Monitor and analyze Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS/IPS) logs to identify security issues for remediation.
• Manage metrics and reporting with leadership and key stakeholders.
• Provide architectural, design, and operational support to the Intrusion Detection and Prevention service.
• Providing consultation services with regards to signature changes and updates.
• Follow proper evidence handling procedures and chain of custody protocols, producing written reports documenting digital forensic findings.
• Must have a good understanding of networks at a net flow, packet level, and analysis methodologies.
• Assists in incident reports of analysis methodology and results.
• Communicate requirements and guide security projects.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant cyber security technologies.
• Assist with issues that have been escalated from the support analysts.
• Perform audits, reviews, security control assessments, and tests of security operations based on established schedules
• Perform real time analysis and trending of security log data from various security systems
• Analyse security event data to identify suspicious and malicious activity
• Provide inputs to improve security monitoring rules and alerts
• Document processes related to security monitoring
• Implement security protocols
• Create emergency response procedures
• Maintain data sources feeding the log monitoring system
• Schedule security checks in accordance with reporting schedules
• Prepare periodic status reports for presentation to management
• Review security incident reports
• Evaluate the type and severity of security events
• Assist with establishing procedures for handling detected security events
• Provide status updates during the life cycle of an incident
• Create final incident report detailing the events of the incident
• Support the maintenance and update of business recovery/contingency plans and/or procedures
• Respond to user requests for technical assistance
• Assess incident severity
• Set clear user expectations on issue resolution
• Update users on changes in status during issue resolution
• Manage user accounts

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject with 3-5 years experience
• Knowledge of next-gen firewall technologies
• Knowledge of the Cisco Firepower, Checkpoint, Palo Alto and/or Fortinet
• Solid understanding of common TCP/IP architecture, principles, operations and controls.
• Solid understanding of network security firewall UTM technologies, trends, vendors, processes and methodologies.
• Solid understanding of common IPS/IDS architectures and implementations.
• Strong understanding of basic protocols used by the internet, such as HTTP(S), DNS, TLS
• Solid understanding of basic networking concepts, such as routing, switching, firewall, and common enterprise security monitoring tools.
• Solid understanding of information security principles
• High degree of personal integrity and ethics as well as a passion for protecting people and systems
• Constantly striving for excellence using objective, transparent and agreed upon standards
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills for leadership, technical and business audiences
• Understanding of IPv6 technology, network and application implementations Understanding the concepts for network detection and reaction.
• Possess industry-recognized security certifications (e.g., Cisco Certified Security Professional, CCNA-S, Check Point Certified Security Administrator, Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer.)

Shortlisted candidates will be offered a 2 Years Direct contract / Permanent employment.

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