Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer at Kenya Airways

Brief Description        

To ensure the security of Kenya Airways information and Supporting infrastructure by putting in place measures, solutions, and processes to mitigate any information security risks. This role is responsible for implementing Technology Risk Management Framework related policies, guidelines, methodologies and best practice or initiatives.

Detailed Description        

• Implementation of the organizations cyber security strategy.
• Perform system risk assessments for all solutions being delivered and facilitate the reporting of findings, formulation, and logging of management actions, and tracking and reporting of remediation efforts.
• Ensure that change and incident management procedures are implemented and report on gaps noted for remediation.
• Provide training and awareness to facilitate the embedment of secure coding standards, tools and processes within the development teams.
• Ensure that the IT infrastructure and applications have adequate defense in depth controls put in place.
• Review and ensure that all open issues identified by risk team, IT security applications and auditors are closed within the agreed time frame.
• Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant laws and regulations such as data privacy laws
• Participate in and provide QA for UAT and SIT testing.
• Ensure that all systems undergo a pretest prior to go live.
• Ensure that staff members are adequately trained on cyber security issues.
• Ensure that the organization has adequate IT DR measures in place.
• Performs process-level walkthroughs, control testing, etc. for the identification and assessment of IT risks and controls.
• Undertaking risk reviews of the IT control framework

Job Requirements        

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or any other related field from a recognized university
• Minimum3 years’ experience
• Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision over long hours when addressing system issues.
• Sound ability to prioritize, time-manage and fast in decision-making.