IT Security Analyst – Emirati National 

October 28, 2024
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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyze business requirements and provide objective advice on the use of IT security requirements.
  • Analyze network traffic, intrusion attempts, activity logs, and system alerts for trends, anomalies, and potential security breaches.
  • Respond to security incidents and IT security issues during and after business hours (onsite or remote).
  • Gather feedback from end-users to continue improving systems.
  • Liaise with vendors for POC’s and demo of new IT security requirements.
  • Assist in IT security projects and day-to-day IT Security operations.
  • Be up to date about the latest security trends.
  • Prepare documentation about the security breaches and the damage caused.
  • Providing guidance to amateur computer users when they want to know about security procedures.
  • Identify and review violations of security procedures.
  • Monitor and maintain data protection tools such as data leakage prevention (DLP), data classification and labelling, e-mail filtering gateways, end-point detection and response (EDR), mobile device management (MDM), and other SOC dashboards.
  • Day to day administration of IT security technical controls like firewalls, web application firewalls (WAF), network access control (NAC), privileged access manager (PAM), etc.
  • Provides on-call IT security support to end-users.
  • Conduct periodic health check of security devices and servers and maintains accurate record.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.
  • Analysing security requirements and recommending improvements.
  • Assist line-manager/supervisor in audit and compliance activities.
  • Keeps current with emerging security alerts and issues.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

  • Relevant Bachelor’s degree or Diploma
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or CompTIA Security+
  • Advanced training in IT security or vendor certifications may be advantageous
  • 5-7 years of experience in administering and managing IT security systems with at least 3 years of experience in an analytical role preferred.
  • Experience in information security audit and compliance will be an added advantage

Technical Competencies

  • Experience in managing data protection mechanisms preferably on cloud platforms like Microsoft purview.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft defender suite and the Identity and access management suite.
  • Understanding of security solutions such as NAC, PAM, EDR, DLP, SIEM, SOAR and NDR.

Knowledge of security configuration in cloud platforms e.g., OCI, Azure and Microsoft office 365