Resilience Engineer

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Job Description

Supports the IT organization in developing, implementing and maintaining stable and resilient IT environment by driving best practice and instilling the appropriate level of quality assurance, governance and compliance relating to: End-to-end Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, Backups, High Availability, Unsupported Systems, Vulnerability Management, Capacity Management, Strategic Fit, Architecture Documentation and Single Point of Failures. The role will fundamentally support the Lead Resilience Engineer.

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE JOB (DESCRIPTION)
* Ensures compliance to IT requirements through proper communication, regular 
practice checks. This includes all new IT projects, production applications and 
application enhancements. 
* Act as Subject Matter Expert in IT methodologies, policies and standards relating to End-to-end Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, Backups, High Availability, 
Unsupported Systems, Vulnerability Management, Capacity Management, 
Strategic Fit, Architecture Documentation and Single Point of Failures. He/she will 
be the steward of IT these artifacts. New and existing services must align with the 
documented policies, processes and standards 
* Coordinates with internal stakeholders on technology compliance. Represents 
IT from, but not limited to, Information Security, recovery and technology risk 
perspective. Ensures proper analysis and timely findings/responses/mitigation in 
a consistent and factual manner; establish & follow the escalation or reporting 
process. 
* Ensures IT service compliance and resilience through regular monitoring, 
analysis, investigation and proposing technical recommendation for the 
strengthening and protection of business technological assets, data, etc 
* Preparing and presenting progress reports on the current state of the IT risk and 
control environment. 

* Support the identification of improvement opportunities of the curriculum. 
Develop and present proposals to Lead Resilience Engineer to articulate 
opportunity, benefits and risks to organization, as well as provide and 
implement options and plans

Minimum Requirements for this role:

*A bachelor's degree holder in Information Technology or any business technology related field 
* Familiar with ICT Business e.g., Consulting, Managed Services, Cloud Services, etc 
* Exposed in facets of IT e.g., Projects, Delivery Support, Infrastructure, Software Development, etc. 
* At least 3 years relevant experience in Industry standards for IT Governance and controls frameworks e.g., COBIT, ITIL/ITSM, Project and Software Development, ISO, InfoSec/Data Privacy, among others. 
* Must have performed an IT audit or familiar with Information Security, Data 
Privacy, Information Systems Audit requirements and other IT risk management 
or due diligence practices 
* Communications skills at all levels (written, spoken, presentation, etc.)
 

Additional requirements:

* CBCI/AMBCI
* Business Resilience 

Competencies Required :

* Customer First (Practice)
* Executing (Practice) 
* Innovation (Practice) 
* Leading with Influence 
* Learning 
* Relating 
* Strategic 

Skills

Action Planning, Data Compilation, Data Management, Evaluating Information, Executing Plans, Legal Practices, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Project Quality Management, Project Testing, Report Review, Test Case Management

Competencies

Action OrientedCollaboratesCommunicates EffectivelyCourageCustomer FocusDecision QualityEnsures AccountabilityInstills Trust

Education

NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent

Closing Date

15 February 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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