Assistant Manager, Security Technology Roadmap & COE Specialist at Equity Bank Kenya

Job Purpose:  

Security Technology Specialist provides a demonstrated mastery and in-depth understanding of existing and emerging system, database, infrastructure and network security technologies in a complex network environment

Job Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Measure the effectiveness of the Advanced Cyber Security & Emerging technologies / controls capabilities to ensure appropriate plans are in place to address lower performance and ineffective practices
• Support the delivery of the 3 year Cyber security roadmap to maintain and optimize the Advanced Cyber Security & Emerging technologies / controls capability
• Lead the enhancement and optimization of implemented reporting mechanisms to demonstrate the value of the Advanced Cyber Security & Emerging technologies / controls function with tangible benefits
• Identifies technical and business opportunities to take advantage of cross project knowledge, best practices and reusability to expedite projects
• Manage the security posture of IT infrastructure for overseas locations
• Provide deployment services on enabling new infrastructure capability
• Follow information security policies, methods, standards, National Institutes of Standard and Technology (NIST) standards and practices to organizational information systems, IT reference materials and interpret regulations
• Implement security controls, perform ongoing maintenance and prevent, detect, analyze and respond to security incidents
• Communicate with Information Security Officer, and other IT personnel within the organization and organizational staff
• Help coordinate the implementation of security programs across all agency platforms
• Assist with Active Directory access and Group Policies, Internet intrusion detection, Internet filtering, and monitoring of employee access, virtual private networking (LAN/WAN) security
• Assist and participate with the Senior IT Specialist as an advisor in projects to enhance or develop new IT systems, or to study the feasibility of acquiring new technology

Strategy:

• Understand information security trends
• Document and communicate security solution roadmap to the Head of secueity technology roadmap and COE team
• Document security product and services for each information security domain  
• Understand all security domain, application, implementation and objectives to the business

Budgets/ Financial Input

• Provide budget input and recommendations
• Provide knowledge business services and product to the security team
• Consolidate and translate business security needs into finical measurable matrix

Qualifications

• A Degree or its equivalent in Information Technology, Network Security, Enterprise Network Management, Information Security, Management Information System Computing, Engineering or similar area of study
• Relevant industry certifications in information security program and governance as well as PMP will be an added advantage
• Minimum of Two (2) years of computer information technology experience.
• Minimum of Two (2) years of experience engineering and designing IT security solutions
• Minimum of 1 year working as a business analyst in technical security and IT
• Good understanding all the information security domains
• Experience of identifying and managing technology security risk
• Certification like CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CCISO, SABSA, ISO27001/22301 will be of advantage

Key Critical Competencies

• Ability to know when to implement solutions with consideration to the wider impacts i.e. risk, cost, customer impact, timescales, etc.
• Excellent negotiation, and written and verbal presentation skills
• Ability to handle high pressure situations with key stakeholders
• Good Analytical skills, Problem solving and Interpersonal skills
• Deep knowledge of enterprise application development security controls
• Good knowledge of Telco convergence business, FinTech network traffic consumption and OpenAP

Closing: 13 June 2022