Network and Security Engineer (12 Months)
Industry: Finance / Job Expires: 2024-03-15 00:00:00 / Location: Gauteng
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to ensure sustainable IT infrastructure for the employer.
Minimum Requirements
- Degree/National Diploma in Information Technology/ Computer Science/ Information Systems or equivalent.
- 4 year’s experience in an ICT security.
- 3 years as a team lead.
- Certificate or equivalent in Information/ IT Security such as CISSP, SISM, CCSP.
- ITIL Certificate is an added advantage.
- Knowledge of NIST and other security related frameworks.
- Broad knowledge of hardware, networking cyber security, vulnerability management and cloud migration.
- In depth understanding of infrastructure and network architecture and design.
Main Duties
- Overall cybersecurity compliance, management and training throughout the organisation.
- Ensures that data integrity, and that information is kept accurate and consistent unless authorised access.
- Managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure.
- Organisation-wide cybersecurity and related document, process and record management to ensure that systems and products are safe/ secure and effective.
- Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools.
- Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
- Proposes design enhancements, capacity changes, contingency and recover
- Arrangements as required, to ensure that service targets are met within the organisation’s planned budget.
- Ensures the investigation and diagnosis of operational incidents. Resolves such incidents, including any capacity and availability management issues to maintain overall performance.
- Acts as the technical lead on projects relating to security, data and voice network management.
- Provides advise and guidance on the design and development of new and changed systems to optimise operational efficiency.
- Ensures that appropriate software and specialist monitoring tools are used to maintain awareness and control of hardware and software.
- Monitors exceptional incidents and conducts or initiates investigations on system performance.
- Proposes and implements consequent improvements working towards industry top benchmark targets.
- Coach and monitor junior engineers, setting standards of performance and objectives (both collective and individual) in line with service objectives, provides direction and support to all team members ensuring that the highest professional standards are observed.
- Monitor and test application and network performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
Skills
- Strong Troubleshooting/ problem-solving ability.
- 4 Years senior systems engineer experience.
- 3 years as a team lead.
- 2 Years’ senior security engineer experience.
- 2 Years’ senior data engineer experience.
- 2 Years’ senior voice engineer experience.
- Understanding of virtual environments and containers.
- Extensive understanding of Networks switching and roputing as well as Voice technologies SIP and SBS’s.
- Extensive understanding of firewalls, ips, acls, dlp and vulnerability assessment.
- Understanding of Enterprise Linus and Windows servers and service.
- Experience with monitoring systems.
- Experience with automation software.
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To apply please send your CV to Lethabo@heitha.co.za