Senior IT Security Specialist, Security Assurance

Leadership and Strategic Oversight

·       Mentor a team of IT Security Assurance

·       Assist section head to define and maintain the security advisory and risk assessment framework aligned with corporate cybersecurity strategy.

System Hardening and Configuration Compliance

·       Review and validate operating system hardening configurations for Windows and Linux servers and others as listed in List of Technologies.

·       Assess database security configurations and hardening controls for enterprise databases.

·       Validate application security configurations and adherence to secure configuration standards.

·       Review network device hardening, including firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and web application firewalls.

·       Assess cloud security configurations and ensure compliance with approved cloud security baselines like Dockers,S3 Bucket , AzureDocDB and others.

·       Verify compliance with hardening standards, benchmarks, and security best practices.

·       Conduct periodic hardening and Adhoc QA scan and identify configuration weaknesses.

·       Ensure security patches and configuration updates are implemented according to organizational requirements.

·       Report significant risks and mitigation progress to senior management and governance committees.

·       To align and execute IT security risk assessment according to Group Risk IT risk assessment methodology

·       Lead the ISO 27001 certification and maintenance process, ensuring continuous compliance of the Information Security Management System (ISMS).

·       Coordinate internal and external audits, managing relationships with auditors and certification bodies.

·       Ensure risk assessments, Statement of Applicability (SoA), and ISMS documentation remain current and aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements.

·       Track and manage audit nonconformities, corrective action plans, and improvement initiatives.

Security Assurance

·       Conduct security risk assessments and identify security gaps, vulnerabilities, and control deficiencies.

·       Validate implementation of security controls, including authentication, authorization, logging, monitoring, and encryption.

·       Support security governance initiatives and provide recommendations to mitigate identified risks.

·       Review and track security findings, risk exceptions, and remediation activities.

·       Provide security assurance and approval prior to production deployment.

·       Collaborate with project teams, infrastructure teams, developers, and security stakeholders to ensure security requirements are addressed.

Mobile Apps Security

·       Perform security assessments of Android and iOS mobile applications.

·       Coordinate and review third-party risk assessments and recommend mobile configuration.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor performance, completeness and effectiveness of all managed security tools and controls.
• Implement automation and process improvement to reduce operational overhead
• Define KPIs and SLAs for tool uptime, incident response and compliance posture.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

·       Ensure all security controls meet internal and external regulatory requirements.

·       Own the documentation of policies, procedures, operation manual and security standards related to managed systems

·       Assist internal and external audits for the security technologies under this section.

·       Drive remediation plans for audit findings and ensure timely closure.