The Network Security Specialist role at Equity Bank Kenya involves monitoring networks to detect intrusion or hostile activities. The specialist is responsible for designing, implementing, and administering technical cybersecurity defenses, ensuring the protection of systems against malicious attacks.
Role Purpose
This entails monitoring networks to detect any intrusion or hostile activities. It also involves taking measures such as carrying out design, implementation, and administration of technical cybersecurity defenses for firewalling, segmentation, network intrusion detection, and prevention; network access monitoring and control, network vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc., to defend against malicious attacks on the systems.
Role Responsibility
The key responsibilities for this role include:
- Maintaining LAN, WLAN, and architecture of the Network as per the business policy.
- Measure, analyze and implement new security protocols for greater efficiency against any threat or malfunctions.
- Generating and maintaining the virtual private network (VPN), firewalls, web protocols, and email security decorum.
- Reporting the security analysis of findings.
- Investigations of Network Security breach alerts.
- Drive the implementation of Security standards for Network devices across the Group.
- Conduct periodic security reviews on the Network infrastructure and also reviewing connection matrix.
- Monitoring of web security gateways, perimeter security, network access controls, and endpoint security.
Role Qualifications
Education and Experience
- BA/BSc/HND qualification.
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology (specifically security).
- 3-5 years’ experience in core network technologies of a telecom or Banking environment.
- 3-5 years working experience in managing information security in a large organization.
- Experience in designing and implementing organization wide information security Network architecture and framework.
- Experience in managing and implementing large scale information security Network projects.
- Advanced working understanding of the information technology and Networking environment of a Financial and Technology driven Organization.
Certifications
- Preferred certifications: CISSP, CCNP, Network +, CISM, CGEIT or equivalent.
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