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Job Description
- Establish, implement, and continuously enhance the SOC operating model, ensuring scalable, resilient, and effective 24/7 security monitoring and incident response capabilities.
- Lead and oversee all SOC functions, including security monitoring, alert triage, threat detection, incident response, digital forensics, and recovery activities.
- Define and implement SOC strategy, roadmap, and maturity improvement plans aligned with the Bank’s overall IT security strategy.
- Manage and optimize security technologies, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, WAF, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms, ensuring integration, automation, and full visibility across the Bank’s environment.
- Establish and continuously improve detection use cases, correlation rules, and playbooks to enhance detection accuracy and reduce false positives.
- Lead proactive threat hunting and adversary detection activities using threat intelligence and advanced analytics.
- Oversee end-to-end incident response management, ensuring timely detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review with proper documentation.
- Integrate and operationalize threat intelligence, ensuring relevance to the Bank’s risk profile and emerging cyber threats.
- Ensure comprehensive logging, monitoring, and visibility across infrastructure, applications, and digital banking platforms.
- Conduct root cause analysis and ensure implementation of corrective and preventive actions to strengthen the Bank’s security posture.
- Ensure SOC readiness for major cyber incidents and crisis situations, including leading cyber drills, simulations, and incident response exercises.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure Security and Application Security and Identity Management, to ensure timely remediation of incidents and alignment of controls.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory directives, internal policies, and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, and PCI DSS, including requirements from the National Bank of Ethiopia.
- Define and monitor SOC KPIs and performance metrics, including detection time, response time, incident trends, and operational efficiency.
- Prepare and present regular reports on threat landscape, SOC performance, incidents, and risks to the management
Job Requirements
First Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Computer Engineering/MIS/or related fields with 9 years of relevant experience of which 3 years in supervisory level.
How To Apply
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- Only highly qualified & short-listed candidates will be contacted
- Any physical application request will not be accepted
- The Bank has the right to cancel the post advertised