Security Engineer - 1 Year Contract

Job description / Role

A leading retail bank is looking for Security Engineers to join their team. This will be a 1 year contract initially and will be based in Bahrain. The ideal candidate should be available to join within 2 - 3 weeks as this is an urgent position for them.

- Maintain an awareness of emerging threats and the evolving threat landscape.
- Maintain the necessary skills to protect the bank from current and emerging threats.
- Understand and manage the human factor in security.
- Maintain a solid understanding of Control frameworks including but not limited to CIS 20 Critical Controls, PCI DSS, ISO and COBIT.
- Participate in designing secure networks, systems and application architectures.
- Participate in identifying and defining system security requirements.

Manage technical security controls including, but not limited to:
- SIEM (Splunk)
- End Point Protection and DLP (McAfee)
- Vulnerability Management (Tenable Security Center)
- Proxy (Websense, BlueCoat)
- Firewall / IPS / Review work and configurations (Fortinet)
- WAF Policies and reviews (F5)
- FireEye (EPT, NX, Helix)
- 2FA (Vasco)

Requirements

- Perform periodic security reviews of networks, infrastructure and applications.
- Prepare required change management documentation of all critical information, process ownership / authority rights, and decision-making matrix.
- Periodic (weekly/monthly) management reports.
- Other technical and security related tasks within the engineering team to support the sections tasks and activities.
- Assist in delivering Information Security projects
- Accuracy in security management of assigned systems
- Accuracy of Access control and security system controls
- Compliance to information security policies, Adherence to security documentation
- Consistency of security audits
- Timely resolution of security incidences
- Timely review of systems / software
 
Qualifications, Experience & Skills            

University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Information Technology or a related discipline. Technical Expertise with business understanding of the subject matter.   

Professional Certifications         
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, Security+, Product Specific Certificates   

Experience        
- 2 to 4 years of progressive experience in a security analyst/technical security role, preferably in a Bank.

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