IT Security Officer

Bahrain

Ref: LP127-1195

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client is a leading money transfer and foreign exchange company based in the GCC. They have been in continues operation since the 1920’s. They are looking to recruit an IT Security Officer for their Bahrain Office.

MAIN DUTIES:
- Support the Information Security Manager in devising strategies to mitigate IT security risks and manage threats which, if materialized, would compromise sensitive business
- data and obstruct the Company’s ability to execute normal business operations.
- Assist the Information Security Manager in conducting and maintaining information security risk analysis and asset inventories, and in drafting policies and procedures.
- Advise on the design and data protection controls to imbed in e-Commerce websites, online financial transaction systems, VPNs, and web based communication.
- Advise on the design of LAN, WAN, and parameter networks, and on the internal technical controls to adopt to protect data against internal and external threats.
- Work with the IT department to effectively deploy security devices such as firewalls, IPS, systems monitors, web filers, DLP, and end-point devices controls.
- Monitor implemented technical controls, procedural controls, and systems logs and produce regular reports on security breaches, incidents, and nonconformities.
- Analyzes network traffic and alerts to assess, prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms.
- Take part in the software development process by advising on the security control to
- incorporate into new systems.
- Take part in projects with potential consequences on information security and advice on the controls to imbed in such projects.
- Participate in DR and BC planning to ensure that information security incident response capabilities are imbedded within such plans.
- Participate in assessing the IT environment and addressing vulnerabilities through systems inspections, internal vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc.
- Advise on the selection and procurement of IT security products and services.
- Participates in investigating IT security incidents and identifying and implementing appropriate corrective and preventive actions.

Requirements

- College degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on technical work experience.
- Strong knowledge of data security best practice and international standards
- Specialized technical certifications such as CISSP and CEH V7
- Strong knowledge of networking technologies: TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs and proxies
- Strong knowledge of the PCI DSS standard and related technical controls including
- SEIM, HIPS, and encryption;
- Excellent knowledge of ISO27001;
- Strong technical skills in securing websites and online financial transactions, networking, IT security practices, applications and databases
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
- Strong analytic and decision making abilities.
- Security incident management.

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions: