SECURITY SPECIALIST

Purpose Statement

• To analyse, design, implement and support IT Data Centre Infrastructure in regard to IT security aspects and security solutions in support of the organization.

Experience

Min:

• 5+ years’ experience in IT Security related Design (physical / virtual infrastructure, operating systems and supporting software)
• 5+ years’ experience designing, deploying and supporting identity platforms deployments and its supporting technologies in a medium to large sized organizations.
• Proven experience implementing security solutions in a heterogeneous environment.

Ideal:

• 6+ years’ experience in Microsoft Server Operating Systems
• Proven experience in designing and deploying Windows Server security and configuration using Group Policy
• 5+ years’ experience in Microsoft Security technologies
• 2+ years’ experience in ITIL concepts and policies
• 2+ years’ experience in public cloud platforms
• 2+ years’ experience with IAM concepts and technologies

Qualifications (Minimum)

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)

Knowledge

 

Min:
Expert knowledge of:

• IT Security solutions design and administration
• Designing, implementing and administering IDP / IAM Platforms (Active Directory, Azure AD), Group Policy and related technologies.
• Security administration in a Windows and Opensource Environment.
• Implementing Security Technologies in the enterprise, including cloud services

A sound understanding of:

• Security Principles, IT Security procedures and Best Practices
• PKI, RADIUS, LDAP, DNS, IDP, SAML, OAUTH, MFA, PAM, Zero Trust
• IT systems development processes (SDLC lifecycle)
• Business compliance requirements
• Business continuity planning
• IT Operations
• Virtualization Architecture
• Public Cloud Architecture

Ideal:
Expert knowledge of:

• SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and/or ECA (Event Correlation and Analysis) Systems
• Secure network architecture, identity and access management principles, and application security principles.
• Advanced Networking
• DevOps

A sound understanding of:

• Project Management principles and processes
• Application design principles
• Ethical hacking and penetration testing
• Anti-Virus technologies, Linux, IPS
• Windows Internals
• Messaging and Collaboration technologies and architecture
• Programming
• Windows Internals
• Data Centre infrastructure architecture.
• Data Centre infrastructure performance and capacity analysis.

Skills

Conditions of Employment