Engineer, Cyber Security

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To provide expertise, professional knowledge, and technical skills to automate building, testing and operating data ingestion systems. To operate and monitor the group's cyber security operational centre (CSOC) systems that collect and manages several terabytes of logs per day. To assist the cyber security incident response team and threat hunters by ingesting and providing access to log data. Any experience and interest in cyber security and/or data science is an advantage but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree Information Technology is required.

Experience:

• 3+ years experience in system administration, programming and data collection/manipulation.
• 1+ years in automation engineering and CI/CD.
• 1+ years in operating services with cloud environments.
• 1+ years in data ingestion, engineering or analytic roles.

Skills:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & tools.
• Build and Test Automation: CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deploy (E.g. git, Azure Dev Ops).
• Write Code: Programming and scripting (E.g. Python, PowerShell).
• Automation engineering (E.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• System administration (E.g. Linux, Containers) and cloud services (E.g. Azure, AWS).
• System availability monitoring (E.g. Azure Monitor, Splunk).
• Log data analysis (E.g. Azure Log Analytics, Splunk) and Log Parsing (E.g. regular expressions).
• Data ingest and integration (E.g. SQL, REST APIs, event hubs, syslog)
• Technical fault finding, debugging and fixing.

Additional Information

Key Responsibilities: 

• Maintain an operate syslog collection servers
• Write automate ansible playbooks
• Build and run integration Azure Logic Apps
• Collect and ingest data using APIs

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Debugging and Fixing Software
• Information Security Management
• IT Risk Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies & Tools
• Technical Analysis
• Use of Build and Test Automation
• Write Code