Job Description
Department of Information Technology
Job Title: security operation head of section
Direct Manager: Banking Systems Department Manager
Identification
- Technical and administrative supervision of the security operation section
- Participation and follow-up in Infrastructure department development projects, digital transformation projects and software and application development.
- Participating and contributing to the operational processes of Infrastructure Department and providing logistical and technical support to the Bank in various departments and branches.
- Participating and contributing to the necessary studies, analysis, and recommendations by Infrastructure Department, to improve the bank's work and provide the best in the world of banking programs, technologies, and systems
Duties and Responsibly
- Manage security operation section activities and following up on achievements.
- Implementation of new projects related to the development of the infrastructure of IT systems.
- Follow up on the daily work procedures regarding security operation section operations
- Develop designs and technical solutions for the technology infrastructure in the main site and alternative site and supervise the readiness of the alternative site and work the necessary tests to confirm this in coordination with the infrastructure department manager
- execute the necessary technical test for all programs and modifications for the security operation section this in coordination with IT Departments and sections
- Preparing the necessary infrastructure to operate the alternative site in terms of hardware, communication networks, programs, and applications.
- Monitoring reports and alerts on information security and protection systems.
- Apply security controls for security operation section Systems In accordance with the international standards and accordance with the bank's quality standards and information security policies
- Review the information security policies and procedures approved by the Information Security Committee and ensure that they are applied in accordance with the standards of information security
- Contribute to promoting activities to raise security awareness among bank employees
- Continuous audit to ensure adequate protection of information systems and meet international safety needs(PCI, ISO27001).
- Addressing vulnerabilities and the consequences of security breaches
- Creating a historical record showing technical and non-technical problems that appear on the security operation and devices used in the systems section, including time, manner of addressing them, the root cause in addition to documenting the security and preventive measures taken
- Supervising the development and maintenance of security operation sections systems according to the plans and time limits in this regard
- Make sure that the security operation section systems work properly
- Addressing the problems of System section systems radically.
- Prepare Section policies and procedures in coordination with the infrastructure Department manager.
- Submit report on the section achievements to infrastructure department manager.
- extract the technical reports that necessary to give image of the performance of devices and systems and submit them to infrastructure department managers.
- Participating in the implementation of the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and the Crisis Management Plan (CMP).
- Participating in the development Business Continuity Plans (BCP) that contain procedures for resuming work in the event of an emergency and develop and review them periodically
- Ensuring that the bank’s compliance with PMA and regulatory instruction.
- Addressing the problems and observations contained in the reports of internal and external auditors in a radical way to prevent their recurrence in the future in coordination infrastructure department manager
- Evaluation of security operation section staff performance
- Continuous evaluation of the security operation section tasks to ensure distribution, workflow, and good performance according to policies and in coordination with infrastructure department manager
- Ensure that the daily operations conducted to the approved policies and procedures.
- Contribute to providing distinctive technical support to the various departments and branches of the Bank.
- Study the available alternatives from employees on an ongoing basis with the aim of providing the replacement employee for all the basic jobs in the various sections to maintain the permanence of the work
- Submit accident reports to the concerned authorities for all incidents related to the activities of the security operations section and follow-up on incident handling
- Any other tasks assigned by direct supervisor
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor of Information Technology/ Computer Science or any related discipline with 12 years of experience in the information security
- Or
- Master of Information Technology/ Computer Science or any related discipline with 10 years of experience in the information security
- Very good experiences in regulations procedures (PCI, ISO 27001)
- Very good experiences in infrastructure, network, and information security systems
- Good experiences in DB
- CISM certification preferred
- CISSP certification preferred
Languages:
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
Skills:
- A leading and creative person.
- High ability to communicate with others
- Work under pressure