We are Veegil Media, a non-partisan technology and media organization that seeks to transform societies with technology. We promote civic engagement and good leadership for the welfare of the people.
Job Description:
- We are looking for a dedicated and meticulous cybersecurity specialist to join our growing team. In this role, you will operate independently and as part of a team to ensure our software, hardware, and related components are protected from cyber-attacks.
- The job description will include developing security systems, analyzing current systems for vulnerabilities, and handling any or all cyberattacks in an efficient and effective manner.
- Candidates should have strong IT skills and a deep understanding of cyber hacker methodology.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, upgrading security measures for the protection of the organization's data, systems, and networks.
- Coordinates and supports the installation of server and desktop technologies. Provides on-call support (24x7) to assist with troubleshooting, escalation, or recovery of failing equipment.
- Provisioning and de-provisioning cloud applications for internal and external clients for the premises, private and public clouds.
- Knowledge of CI/CD (Gitlab CI, Jenkins, etc), Infrastructure as code (Chef, Juju, Hashicorp suite), Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding and experience in *nix.
- Research best ways to secure company-wide IT infrastructure.
- Develop unique, effective security strategies for software systems, networks, data centres, and hardware.
- Troubleshooting security and network problems.
- Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.
- Ensuring that the organization’s data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate security controls.
- Identify cyber attackers, report to upper management, and cooperate with police or other legal forces to detain the perpetrator.
- Participating in the change management process.
- Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities.
- Daily administrative tasks, reporting, and communication with the relevant departments in the organization.
- Closing off security vulnerability in the case of an attack.
- Work independently or as part of a team as needed.
Requirements
- Minimum of three years of IT, control systems, and information security experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM subject or equivalent work experience preferred.
- A solid understanding of security priorities and concepts.
- Technical knowledge of mainstream operating systems, complex applications, identity and access management technologies, security information and event management, or endpoint security solutions.
- Thorough work ethic and attention to detail.
- Skills of perception and QA, ability to identify vulnerabilities and overall issues.
- Critical thinking skills, problem-solving aptitude.
- Ability to think like a hacker and anticipate hacker moves.
- Desire to self-educate on the ever-changing landscape of cyber hacking tactics and remain current with industry trends and evolving threats.
- Professional and Academic cybersecurity certification is an advantage.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Ability to communicate security concepts and situations to audiences with varying levels of familiarity with these concepts.
- Strong analytical skills to analyze security requirements and relate them to appropriate security controls.
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