IT Security Specialist

Roles & Responsibilities

Position

Data Security Specialist- Data Security and Endpoint Security

Data Security Specialist is a technical Specialist role within the Data Security Services team and will be responsible for managing, administration and supporting the Data Security and Endpoint Security technologies for the bank.

Person will be the technical point of contact for the Run team and the related activities to data security and will be the last level of escalation for the Security specialists in the team. He/She is also responsible for the technical transition and validation of Security services from other regions to Singapore. He/She will be involved in projects and POC’s that may involve security services. He/She works with continuous improvement principles. He/She is equivalent to the Subject Matter Specialist on the technologies within data security.

Data Security Services team in Singapore is responsible for day-to-day operational services on the infrastructure of Europe (mainly France and UK) and Asia remotely from Singapore. France infrastructure represents approximately 80% of the worldwide production activities of the company in Singapore.

Team works in Europe time zones and this role will be aligned primarily to Paris working hours. Flexible rotations are followed based on the nature of duties.

The operational support of the team covers the following technical scope:

• Endpoint Security technologies – Anti-virus management, Host Intrusion Prevention System etc.
• Data Leak Prevention systems. - Email Prevent, Web Prevent, Endpoint Protect,
• Encryption Solutions: Disk Encryption, File and Folder encryption,
• Database Audit Monitoring solutions
• Email and Web Phishing Prevention solutions.
• Vulnerability Management

Detailed Job Responsibilities

The Specialist has a wide spectrum of responsibilities and actions. Person will be responsible for following (but not limited to) responsibilities in day-to-day work:

As the Specialist of the team, he/she:

• act as the last level of escalation for the team members
• own Incident, Problem and change management process for the team
• assigns technical tasks and manages delegation
• animates the team to encourage collaboration and sharing of practices
• participates to recruitment process for the team

As the Specialist of his/her scope of activity, he/she:

• is actively involved in incident management (fault investigation, resolution escalations of all monitoring alerts and user initiated problem calls/tickets) and request management
• Is the final technical approver for any changes into Data Security systems and is accountable for any technical changes in the environment from a RUN/BAU perspective
• Is involved in projects like End of Life, New Builds, migrations and technical upgrades of the solution managed by the team
• Participates in global Infra events (like Power down and DR Tests)
• ensures activity is performed in compliance with norms, standards, processes and procedures
• gathering required evidence using multiple forensic tools to investigate any data leak incident, conducting interrogation if required, case closure and reporting
• ensures documentation is up to date and relevant for use
• lead the continuous improvement initiatives
• responsible to drive and deliver root cause for any high severity issues
• Focus on automation and optimum use of the team to improve efficiency
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role.
• Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence
• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

Work Schedule

• Work schedule is mainly focused to support Asia and EMEA (Paris) time zone; however, may have to support during non-offce hours for critical incidents or escalation as per the assigned on-call support requirements;
• Rotational Shift schedule is followed;
• Work Hours: 2 PM – 11 PM SGT (with 1 week of General shift 9 AM – 6 PM SGT).

Qualifications and Profile

Functional

• 8 - 10 years of IT Security experience in administration and management of IT Security technologies primarily Symantec Data Loss Prevention, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Email Security, Data Classification and other endpoint & data security solutions;
• Should be a bachelors/masters/engineering graduate or equivalent technical degree in Information Technology or Computer Science;
• Knowledge of different domains of IT Security;
• Working & hands-on experience in administering the IT Security Solutions;
• Must have experience in working in similar Production setup in Run (Operations) mode;
• Ability to apply risk based approach while working on assigned responsibilities;
• Experience in defining, implementing, and enforcing enterprise-level IT security policies for endpoint and data security solutions;
• Must have working experience in managing endpoint security solution for a Large enterprise level environment, working experience in financial organization is preferred;
• Excellent in analytical, communication and documentation skills;
• Ability to organize work and be able to priories work as per the needs of Production Operation’s needs;
• Must have strong understanding of ITIL processes and comfortable working in process oriented environment;
• Ability to work independently and as well as a part of team and is able to work under minimal supervision;
• Should have time management skills and able to manage work in fast moving environment;
• Excellent written and oral English language skills;
• Knowledge of French language is preferred.

Technical

• Hands-on experience on Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP);
• Highly proficient in data leakage prevention (DLP) technologies - troubleshooting and configuration management;
• Deployment, integration and administration experience of various components of Symantec DLP:

- Symantec Endpoint Protect

- Symantec Web Prevent

- Symantec Email Prevent

- Symantec Enforce

• Must have experience in defining, designing and configuring DLP Policies as per the business requirements;
• Deploy, upgrade and troubleshooting knowledge on Symantec DLP solution;
• Scripting knowledge (Phyton, Regular Expression, Powershell) is desirable;
• Professional Certifications:

- CISSP certified is highly preferred

- Symantec Certified Specialist: Administration of Data Loss Prevention (any version) is highly preferred.

• Must be experienced to cover the scope as mentioned in the SKILLS MATRIX section of this document.

SKILLS MATRIX

Technical skills

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention Administration (DLP Policy/Rules creation Specialistise): Must to have
• Trend Micro Deep Discovery Email Inspector (Phishing Prevention): Good to have
• Symantec Endpoint Protection (Anti-Virus): Good to have
• Phyton, Regular Expression, Powershell: Good to have

General skills

• Ability to prioritize effectively: Must to have
• Ability to work autonomously: Must to have
• Ability to work successfully in a team: Must to have
• Adaptability to changing environments: Must to have
• Inter-personal skills: Must to have

Management skills

• Ability to deal with issues, time management: Critical
• Manage escalated incidents: Critical
• Capacity to cooperate / work across discipline: Critical
• Capacity to develop others: Desired

Language skills

• English: Must to have
• French: Good to have

Next Step

Prepare your updated resume and expected package.

Simply click on 'Apply here' or email to prasant.sirohi@adecco.com to drop your resume

All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Prasant Sirohi

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Registration Number: R22106307

Tell employers what skills you have

Troubleshooting
Vulnerability Management
Investigation
Scripting
Administration
Information Technology
Time Management
Prevention
Evidence
Encryption
Loss Prevention
Audit
CISSP
Business Requirements

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