Cyber Security Senior Specialist

**Role Purpose**:

- ** Technology and Tools Planning**: Develop and execute technology and tools planning strategies that align with local, global, and regulatory standards.
- ** Network Security Architecture**: Collaborate with architecture teams to ensure network security designs are compliant with security standards.
- ** Secure by Design (SBD)**: Oversee the Secure by Design initiatives from a cybersecurity perspective, ensuring all new designs comply with security standards
- ** New Products and Services**: Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies to enhance Vodafone VF-EG IT network security
- ** Capacity Planning**:Maintain and expand capacity planning for all cybersecurity tools, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

**Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership**:
**1) IT Network Security**
- Plan, design, implement and evaluate security-focused tools and services including project leadership roles to Vodafone IT Network Security
- Participate in security compliance efforts (e.g., PCI DSS, SOX)
- Contribute to vendor risk assessment
- Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies to security

**VF-EG IT network**
- Participate in security incident handling
- Ensure that all streams running on the right track and fulfilling their main objectives.
- Ensure VF-EG internet resources security and take all the needed measures to maintain its availability.
- Ensure VF-EG IT published services by design (i.e. Vodafone Web site, payment services and cloud infrastructure)

**2) Optimize Network Quality**
- Study the effect of SW/HW upgrade plans on IT Network Capacity.
- Study the effect of new service/promotion on network Capacity.
- Generate Weekly, Monthly Report to Keep Track on Security KPI.
- Study of new Security Systems / Tools or Features.
- Study of new Security Management Systems / Tools.
- Develop and implement software tools to monitor the Security systems and to provide useful statistics, Trend Analysis using Historical data to capture the Subscriber behavior/Profile across different seasons and occasions.

**3) Technology Development**
- Alignment with Vodafone Group plans.
- Liaise with overall Technology Strategy.
- Provide the state of art for the IP and security evolution that enable VF-EG as best & secure service provider.

**4) Cross Function, Support & Communication**
- Maintain a close liaison with all departments within Vodafone.
- Supports Marketing, product & services, Radio and core in network connectivity and new services.
- Case investigation closely with Corporate Security teams to close any gap from Technology side.
- Provide Operation with the necessary symptoms required for troubleshooting

**Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience**:

- B.Sc. Communication/Computer Engineering or Computer science is a must
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Network and Security positions preferred at least 2 years’ experience in systems integration or Managed Security Services in a top tier professional services firm
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Results oriented, high energy, self-motivated
- Ability to manage expectations of stakeholders (internal and external clients)
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Comfortable working in a project based / client serving model.
- Comfortable working with different internal and external entities (technical teams, Presales, Commercial and customers)

**Technical skills**:

- Remote access solutions: IPSEC, SSLVPN, AAA, MFA, Radius/SAML, PKI
- Cisco ISE: NAC, device administration
- And/or experience in EDR, SIEM solutions and Endpoint security.
- Experience on MS 365 security portfolio
- Basic knowledge with security compliance standards is a plus
- Good knowledge in payment solutions security
- Vendor Certification (FortiGate,, F5,) is a plus.
- Deep understanding of business dynamics and the agility to adapt to changes quickly and effectively.

**Certifications**:

- SC-100. SC-200,SC-300 & SC-400 is a plus
- Firewall Management: Fortinet NSE (Network Security Expert) or equivalent is a must
- ISO 27001 is plus
- Cisco Networking Certifications is a must.