Position Title: Cyber Security Architect - Specialist
Employer: Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
Posted date: 5 months ago
Deadline: Submission date is over
Responsibilities
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Planning, researching, and designing robust security architecture for any IT Systems and Networks (mobile and fixed) project.
- Developing and maintaining enterprise security architecture frameworks, reference models, and standards.
- Creating technology security controls and requirements for IT Systems and Networks (mobile and fixed).
- Providing technology security consultancy for technology and business projects.
- Documenting technology security controls and requirements for IT Systems and Networks (mobile and fixed).
- Offering technical supervision and guidance to the technology security team.
- Ensuring secure design of telecom-specific technologies including 4G/5G, SDN/NFV, IMS, and IoT platforms.
- Architecting secure cloud-native environments and virtualizing network functions (VNFs).
- Supporting technology security awareness programs and educational efforts.
- Responding promptly to technology security-related incidents and providing thorough post-event analysis.
- Ensuring architecture aligns with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, GSMA, ITU, and local regulatory bodies guidelines) and internal policies.
- Maintaining enterprise security architecture frameworks, reference models, and standards.
- Providing accurate and timely reporting of architectural solutions, risk findings, and proposing remediation and mitigation options.
- Developing and implementing comprehensive cybersecurity strategies to protect the organization’s digital assets.
- Assisting in creating and enforcing cybersecurity policies and procedures to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Implementing endpoint security strategies: Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and implement effective endpoint security strategies, including antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption, and other security measures.
- Collaborating with internal security experts, third-party sources, and suppliers to understand network and endpoint security requirements, controls, policies, and threats. Identifying opportunities to eliminate risk, improve service capabilities, and reduce costs.
- Conducting security architectural reviews of Safaricom’s systems/infrastructure.
- Working with engineering, network operations, and IT teams to embed security into solution designs and deployments.
- Providing architectural insights during security incidents and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Core Competencies
Business Competencies:
- Minimum of 3 years of work experience and 2 years of relevant experience in information security/cybersecurity
- Knowledge of common information technology management/compliance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, SOX, ITIL, COBIT, and NIST.
- Proven experience in IT Networks and/or Systems Administration.
- Proven experience in implementing and administering Cyber Security solutions.
- Experience in working across security technologies.
- In-depth understanding of the role of Information Security in network and system security.
- Proven experience based on ability to design and develop security architectures for complex multi-component systems.
- Demonstrated experience in developing conceptual, logical, and physical IT security architecture deliverables.
- Practices and methods of enterprise architecture and security architecture.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science/information technology or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, post-degree qualification
- Experience and proficiency with the following:
- Network security
- End point security
- Cloud security and securing hybrid environments
- Experience with security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, and COBIT.
Desired:
Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CCNP-Security, CCIE security, NSE4, NSE6 preferred).
