IT Security Operations Officer

Key responsibilities

• He or She will evaluate and improve security operations processes and procedures to enhance the organization’s security posture and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with various departments (Compliance, Operational Risk, IT, etc.) to ensure that security operations align with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Provide support during security audits and assessments.
• Contribute to the Risk Management framework to evaluate and improve security operations processes and procedures, enhancing the organization’s security posture and response capabilities.
• Perform User Recertification by facilitating the review and sign-off of logical access to IT systems.
• Manage and orient internal and external sources of security intelligence, review threat reports/feeds, digest threat information into actionable cyber threat intelligence, and assess its impact on the organization.
• Manage vulnerability assessments and collaborate with the infrastructure and applications teams for timely remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents, identify the root cause, assess the impact, and implement appropriate remediation measures.
• Monitor and analyse security events and incidents within the organization’s IT infrastructure, including the use of privileged accounts and DLP alerts.
• Manage User Administration by creating, modifying, and revoking system access according to requests.
• Support a range of Cyber Security tools/services for management and maintenance.
• Enhance security configurations, including fine-tuning of rules, updating monitoring use cases where applicable, and hardening the security configurations of infrastructure devices.