Associate Security Platform Engineer

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The Associate Security Platform Engineer is an entry level subject matter expert, responsible for learning how to facilitate problem resolution and mentoring for the overall team.

This role performs operational security tasks such as performance and availability monitoring, log monitoring, security incident detection and response, security event reporting, and content maintenance (tuning).

The Associate Security Platform Engineer is responsible for detecting and monitoring escalated threats and suspicious activity affecting the organization's technology domain (servers, networks, appliances and all infrastructure supporting production applications for the enterprise, as well as development environments).

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Works as part of a 24/7 team working on rotational shifts.
Works as part of Platform and Content Engineering handling tunings, stake holder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.
Administers the organization's security tools to gather security logs from environment.
Lifecycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching, Live update.
Adheres to SOPs and notify stake holders on log flow/log format issues.
Documents best practices.
Identifies opportunities to make automations which will help the incident response team.

Knowledge and Attributes:

Entry level knowledge on implementation and monitoring of any security technologies (Firewalls, proxy, WAF) - MANDATORY
Entry level knowledge on implementation, configuration of firewalls (FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint) / Imperva WAF
Customer service orientated and pro-active thinking.
Ability to problem solve and is highly driven and self-organized.
Great attention to detail.
Good analytical and logical thinking.
Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
Team player with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
Relevant level of Networking certifications such as CCNA, JNCIA, ACCA, PCNSA, CCSA etc. preferred.
Relevant level of Security certifications in firewalls/proxy/WAF such as NSE4/FCP, PCNSE etc. will be added advantage.

Required Experience:

Entry level experience in Security technologies like (Firewall, IPS, IDS, Proxy etc.).
Entry level experience in FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco / WAF (Imperva) - MANDATORY
Entry level experience in technical support to clients.
Entry level experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
Entry level experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
Entry level experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
Entry level experience in handling security incidents end to end.
Entry level experience in Security engineering.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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