Vacancies at Development Bank of Kenya

Job Purpose

To manage and be accountable for providing security policies, codes of practice, strategy, and operational activity for the Bank, ensuring overall security.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate and ensure prescribed security services are at the Head Office and all branches.
• Ensure that all surveillance across the Bank establishments are in sound working condition, monitored, and reserved.
• Carry out Security Risk assessment and make recommendations to senior management, assessing levels of risk in terms of wider issues affecting the Banking environment and National Security status.
• Investigate fraud cases involving staff and prepare reports to the disciplinary committee. 
• Encourage bank staff to report all incidents ensuring that the reports are analyzed in terms of emerging issues to inform decision making.
• To be accountable for the security budget.
• Advise Senior Management on confidential or sensitive matters and act as a link (conduit) between the Bank and the police at all levels to expedite solutions to difficult situations.
• Coordinate court hearings and presentation of witnesses.
• Receive and deal with any information with a security dimension and confidentially deal with this.
• Develop policies and procedures and ensure they are communicated to and interpreted appropriately by staff to minimize the risk of crime.
• Analyze, coordinate, and lead recovery/mitigating activities in response to security-related emergencies – coordinating activities with other relevant senior managers.
• Responsible for all security-associated decisions with the aim of speedy recovery and the resumption of normal business.
• Assist in the coordination of BCP/DRP efforts from a security perspective.
• Various quarterly reports on security matters.

Job Requirements and Experience

• Relevant degree from a recognized institution
• Security Management certification from a recognized security training institution;
• Diploma in Security studies/management or any relevant field;
• Certificate in Computer Proficiency;
• A valid Certificate of good conduct from the National Police Service;
• Relevant experience in the police force or other security agencies is an added advantage.  
• Meet the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution.

Competencies and Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Good analytical skills
• Problem-solving 
• Professionalism

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Job Purpose

The role is responsible for assisting with the day-to-day operations of securing various bank information systems and maintaining security solutions, instilling security by design practices within the bank that have been deployed, and ensuring that existing and new bank systems, products, and technology are designed, developed, deployed, and managed with an emphasis on strong, effective security and risk management controls.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Overseeing and implementing the bank’s cyber security program and enforcing the cyber security/framework. 
• Support administration, optimization, and support of the Bank’s Technical security solutions, including perimeter email, cloud, network, endpoint, and data security solutions in compliance with the Bank’s policies and standards.
• Ensuring the bank maintains a current enterprise-wide knowledge base of its users, devices, applications, and their relationships. 
• Ensuring the information systems meet the needs of the bank, in particular information system, development strategies, enterprise risk management framework, risk appetite, and ICT policies. 
• Design cyber security controls with consideration of all users at all levels of the organization including internal customers and third-party users/external users. 
• Work in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders to ensure staff and vendors’ access to our systems is secure has the necessary controls in place, and devices are fully operational and secure.
• Organizing professional cyber-related training to improve the technical proficiency of staff. 
• Conduct regular and comprehensive cyber risk assessments that consider people (i.e. employees, customers, outsourcing, and other external parties) processes, data, and technology 
• Ensure timely updates of the incident response mechanism and business continuity plan (BCP) based on the latest cyber threat intelligence gathered. 
• Ensure frequent data backup of critical IT systems (e.g. real-time backup of changes made to critical data) is carried out to a separate storage location.   
• Ensure the roles and responsibilities of managing cyber risks, including in emergency or crisis decision-making, are clearly defined, documented, and communicated to relevant staff. 
• Continuously test disaster recovery and Business Continuity Plans (BCP) arrangements to ensure that the bank can continue to function and meet its regulatory obligations in the event of unforeseen attacks through cybercrime.
• Research and provide technical security expertise in the Cyber Security Environment.

Job Requirements and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT, Information Systems or related field;
• Masters degree in Computer Science or IT, Information Systems, or a related field is an added advantage;
• Four (4) years of relevant working experience;
• Skills: Risk management, Reporting, Information security, System and network security, Testing and debugging, IT support;
• Professional qualifications in any of the following: CISA/CISM/CRISM/ CEH/ CISSP/ MCSE/MCITP/CCNA/Project Management Certification; SSCP; CompTIA Security+; OSCP.
• Member of a relevant professional body;
• Supervisory training or courses. 
• Meets the provisions of chapter six of the constitution;

Competencies and Skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Good analytical skills
• Problem-solving 
• Professionalism