CyberSecurity Specialist

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This role serves as a senior cybersecurity specialist guiding and collaborating a team of cybersecurity engineers, playing a critical leadership role in enhancing the university’s cybersecurity posture and resilience.
Drive initiatives to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets and critical systems, while ensuring alignment with IT governance, risk management, operational security objectives, and executive reporting requirements. Work closely with the Lead to non-operational matters, such as developing the overall Cybersecurity strategy and roadmap for SIM.
Responsibilities
Collaborate within the IT Security team to define, implement, and maintain cybersecurity practices and standards across the university.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior cybersecurity staff.
Collaborate with the wider enterprise Business Units and other IT project teams / IT operations teams to operate across the enterprise to identify and remediate or mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities through implementation of controls or risk mitigation.
Lead and manage IT security projects involving infrastructure upgrades and new security system deployments, ensuring timely, secure, and effective delivery.
Oversee daily cybersecurity operations, including security monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat response to ensure system integrity and continuity.
Develop, document, and regularly update IT security policies, standards, procedures, and operational guidelines.
Prepare and deliver regular management reports and cybersecurity dashboards, providing insights into threat landscape, control effectiveness, and risk posture.
Actively prepare and participate in management and stakeholder meetings, offering expert input on cybersecurity risks, controls, and improvement initiatives. This includes playing a key role in external audits as well as internal management updates such as to SIM EMT or ARC committees.
Provide subject matter expertise in IT governance, policy formulation, and risk assessment practices.
Maintain up-to-date IT documentation, ensuring timely reviews, approvals, and publication.
Manage the IT Risk Management Framework and ensure effective alignment with the university’s enterprise risk strategy.
Collaborate with senior management to continuously assess IT governance and risk posture, identify control gaps, and develop actionable remediation plans.
Provide operational support for cybersecurity tools and systems; coordinate with vendors on implementation, maintenance, and incident resolution.
Promote security awareness through regular training and communications on IT security and data protection policies and practices.
Act as the primary point of contact for cybersecurity incidents, leading investigation, containment, mitigation, and post-incident reporting activities.
Qualifications
Diploma/Degree in Information Systems or equivalent.
Required Experience and Skills
Have at least 10 or more years of experience in the IT Field, with appropriate experience of which is in the Cybersecurity space.
Strong experience in vendor, project, service, people, stakeholder management and process improvement.
Excellent interpersonal, strong people management and communication skills both written and oral with proven ability to communicate at all levels.
Strong technical knowledge of current and developing security technologies would be an advantage.
Able to have holistic view, able to bridge people, process and information in order to produce appropriate results; ability to see beyond the dots.
A self-starter to learn and broaden knowledge to continuously add values to the organization.
Strong knowledge of network protocols, security architecture, encryption, and identity management
Hands-on experience with security technologies such as firewalls / WAF, SIEM, antivirus, DLP, VPN, IDS/IPS, email security, PAM
Expertise in threat modeling, risk assessment, and incident response.
Knowledge of cloud environments & cloud security – AWS, Azure, GCP would be an advantage
Knowledge of IT Infra – on prem, cloud as well as general IT systems architecture
Knowledge of DevOps / DevSecOps
Professional Education/Licence (if any)
Preferably with CISSP and CEH qualification or equivalent, AWS certifications.
Personal Attributes
Passion for continuous learning in a rapidly evolving field.
Proactive and detail-oriented with a strategic mindset.
Ability to synthesize key strategies, issues, risks and content for senior management level consumption and decision-making.
Seniority level
Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Job function Information Technology
Industries Higher Education
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