Key Responsibilities

• Represent Group Cyber Security in assigned implementation projects and teams to ensure all applications and changes meet set information security requirements before introduction to production environments.
• Contribute to the definition, documentation, and implementation of software security policies, secure coding practices and guidelines for the bank in line with industry best practices and technologies commensurate with risk and regulatory requirements.
• Consistently provide security requirements to developers and third parties to adhere to and comprehensively implement the Bank’s software security assurance framework by carrying out security and risk assessments of application and software changes.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Business Services & Solutions teams to identify application/software security improvements and plug-in identified security controls in security tools.
• Contribute to formulation and conducting of regular trainings on secure coding, software security and application security practices for the development and other KCB technology teams at regular intervals.
• Contribute to the identification, integration, and maintenance of application security testing tools.
• Perform security and risk assessments for business solutions to identify inherent security risks and provide recommendations for addressing such risks.
• Create, and deliver software/application security compliance and testing reports and relevant metrics to the Bank’s Senior Management.
• Collaborate in the continuous monitoring and defence of the Bank’s critical applications, such as core banking, and digital channels, for cybersecurity threat indicators; report on violations and security measures taken to address threats.
• Protect the bank’s applications and systems by defining and reviewing access privileges and other security control structures.

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Bsc Information Technology/Computer Science/Cybersecurity/Engineering (Electrical, Electronic) or related.
• Professional qualification in information security certification such as CISA/CRISC/Security+ or any other related.
• Professional qualification in Information Security Testing and certification such as CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)/CEH/OSCP/ CPT/ GPEN/ GWAPT/eWPT/eJPT or any other related
• 3 years work experience is required.
• 1-year experience in Information Security is essential.
• 1-year experience and knowledge in Application Security within a project setup is essential.
• 1 year experience in testing or implementing web, API, Mobile application security best practices (such as OWASP,NIST) is essential.
• 1-year experience in working with application security tools (Burp suite, OWASP Zap is desired.
• 1-year experience in Financial and capital Markets is desired.