75 Threat Detection jobs in South Africa

Information Security Analyst II

Johannesburg, Gauteng nedbank

Posted 7 days ago

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To analyse information security related tasks within the ambit of existing information security policies, standards and processes, procedures and practices as well as business rules. Working independently to deliver on work tasks. Mentor Administrators and Analyst I. Collaborate with other specialists to execute analysis work tasks, perform operational tasks, question, recommend and update improvements to the existing policies, process and procedures. To ensure stability and up-time for areas the incumbent takes responsibility for, which could require availability on demand to perform job related duties outside of normal working hours.

Job Responsibilities
  • We are looking for a suitable resource with general network security or web security experience to alleviate work pressures on our current team members
  • Experience with Email and Web Proxies
  • DNS Security knowledge
  • Experience with Microsoft O365
  • Assist with support of current email and web security tasks
  • Liaise with other teams to promote good security practices and explain security procedures
  • Experience with Security Technologies
  • Building relationships with I&O Teams
  • Oversee the implementation of the information security changes and check for the short comings and risks.
  • Interpret MIS and system logs/ reports with the view to analyse and correct any deviations against standards and best practices.
  • Participate in the implementation of new products as provided in the selection criteria.
  • Act as the 1st point of problem resolution for non routine incidents and 1st line support for problems.
  • Ensure compliance to standards and practises by familiarizing and keeping abreast of information security policies, rules, standards and processes, procedures and practices as well as business rules.
  • Document and maintain all relevant processes and procedures mindful of current policies and standards.
  • Create and maintain information security standards.
  • Oversee and monitor the information security environment according to set standards.
  • Review and contribute to project documentation including business requirements, designs and implementation.
  • Create design documentation according to relevant standards and practices
  • Implement specific Information security technologies.
  • Gain further exposure and experience on multiple technologies by job shadowing Information Security analysts III and Technical Specialist.
  • Log submit and implement low, medium and high risk changes independently.
  • Provide guidance and supervision to Administrators and Analyst I on implementation and changes.
  • Oversee and ensure change was successful in certain cases and when required perform unit testing.
  • Oversee and ensure back-ups are done, documents are stored and statuses updated.
  • Analyse logs and reports independently and provide supervision to Administrators and Analyst I.
  • Monitor and action Service Manager low, medium and high impact incidents and e-mails related to Information Security.
  • Ensure job related tasks and processes are in place.
  • Ensure that the logging and submitting of all relevant incidents have taken place and resolve low, medium and high incidents.
  • Conduct risk and root cause analyses around exceptions, queries, incidents as per operational procedures with the relevant internal and external stakeholders and provide feedback, confirm stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites and attending sessions.
  • Improve personal capability and to stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identify training courses and career progression opportunities for self through input and feedback from managers.
  • Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.
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Information Security Architect

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Johannesburg, Gauteng InfyStrat Software Services

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Job title: Information Security Architect

Contract duration: Start with 6 months

First preference: EEE candidates

Location: JHB

The Head of Security Architecture for the organization is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust security architectures that protect sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as POPIA, GDPR. This role is critical in safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic health records (EHR), patient and employee information, medical devices, and cloud-based healthcare services. The role will focus on designing and developing security architecture that aligns business and corporate security strategy. The role will collaboratively direct Security Architects, IT, and Engineers to design and build security controls and solutions compliant with approved enterprise architecture frameworks and standards across business and digital.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop complex and comprehensive security architectures for our systems, applications, and infrastructure, considering both current and future needs
  • Collaborates with stakeholders, including developers, engineers, and project managers, to integrate security requirements into the system design and development lifecycle
  • Provides guidance and expertise in secure coding practices, network security, identity and access management, data protection, and other security domains
  • Model threats and risks, designing the controls necessary to mitigate them, on both an organizational and technical level - thinking like an attacker, understanding and anticipating the moves and tactics that a hacker might use to attack systems
  • Follow the architecture analysis process, which consists of research, validation, and evaluation of all new initiatives, with phase gate reviews presented to all stakeholders during key forums, including current trends such as AI and LLMS
  • Evaluates and selects security technologies, tools, and frameworks to support the organization's security
  • Define portfolio vision and reusable security patterns aligned with the EA strategy
  • Lead architecture reviews for high-risk projects, driving recommendations to resolution
  • Advise on security controls for hybrid and cloud platforms, balancing usability, cost, and compliance
  • Defines and applies security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices
  • Leads incident response activities, including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery, in coordination with the incident response team
  • Experience with Cloud Security platform vendors and technologies such as Azure and AWS
  • Manage security architects and mentor engineers, developers, and vendors
What will you bring?
  • Risk-based decision-making - expert in ISO 27001 / NIST / CIS controls, able to quantify and articulate risk, then select proportionate, cost-effective controls
  • Pen-testing & threat-modelling - scoping, overseeing, and translating results into enforceable patterns and backlog items
  • Influential communication - proven ability to engage C-suite and delivery stakeholders alike, adapting style to gain agreement and drive secure-by-design culture
  • Teamwork and Energy - work across different functional and business teams with effective collaboration
  • Technical depth - hands-on knowledge of cloud security, IAM, container & API security, network segmentation, encryption, and DevSecOps toolchains; capable of explaining the exploitability of complex vulnerabilities. Zero trust design thinking
  • Mentoring & governance - experience in line-managing or coaching security architects/engineers and running architecture assurance or design-review boards
  • Secure-system design leadership - demonstrable track record creating or validating architectures for large-scale, high-risk services using recognised frameworks (SABSA, TOGAF)
Requirements
  • Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)
  • Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in Security Architecture
  • CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other relevant security-related designation(s) preferred
  • Certifications in CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF, or SABSA, cloud architecture (Microsoft, AWS, GCP)
  • Experience in identifying gaps in existing architectures
  • Understanding of security infrastructure in Public and Private Cloud, e.g., virtual network infrastructure, hybrid IaaS/PaaS/SaaS solutions
  • Experience in designing security architectures to mitigate threats and sound knowledge of security strategies and technologies
  • Direct the Project and Security teams with the guidance to build policies, standards, risks, and controls frameworks supporting operational requirements for the business
  • Good experience in security architecture design in Cloud and on-prem
  • Design and implementation of IOT, endpoint protection, and secure IAM
  • Understanding of authentication and authorisation technologies (SAML, LDAP, PKI, etc.) and other IAM technologies
  • Understanding of the implementation, operation, and maintenance of SIEM, boundary protection technologies (firewalls, mail gateways), Antivirus, and AD security products
  • Knowledge of web application architectures and threat modelling
Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Contract
Job function
  • Information Technology
Industries
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
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Information Security Architect

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Johannesburg, Gauteng InfyStrat

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Job title: Information Security Architect

Contract duration: Start with 6 months

First preference: EEE candidates

Location: JHB

The Head of Security Architecture for the organization is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust security architectures that protect sensitive data in compliance with regulations such as POPIA, GDPR. This role is critical in safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic health records (EHR), patient and employee information, medical devices, and cloud-based healthcare services. The role will focus on designing and developing security architecture that aligns business and corporate security strategy. The role will collaboratively direct Security Architects, IT, and Engineers to design and build security controls and solutions compliant with approved enterprise architecture frameworks and standards across business and digital.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop complex and comprehensive security architectures for our systems, applications, and infrastructure, considering both current and future needs.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders, including developers, engineers, and project managers, to integrate security requirements into the system design and development lifecycle.
  • Provides guidance and expertise in secure coding practices, network security, identity and access management, data protection, and other security domains.
  • Model threats and risks, designing the controls necessary to mitigate them, on both an organizational and technical level – thinking like an attacker, understanding and anticipating the moves and tactics that a hacker might use to attack systems.
  • Follow the architecture analysis process, which consists of research, validation, and evaluation of all new initiatives, with phase gate reviews presented to all stakeholders during key forums, including current trends such as AI and LLMS.
  • Evaluates and selects security technologies, tools, and frameworks to support the organization’s security.
  • Define portfolio vision and reusable security patterns aligned with the EA strategy.
  • Lead architecture reviews for high-risk projects, driving recommendations to resolution.
  • Advise on security controls for hybrid and cloud platforms, balancing usability, cost, and compliance.
  • Defines and applies security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.
  • Leads incident response activities, including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery, in coordination with the incident response team.
  • Experience with Cloud Security platform vendors and technologies such as Azure and AWS.
  • Manage security architects and mentor engineers, developers, and vendors.

What will you bring?

  • Risk-based decision-making - expert in ISO 27001 / NIST / CIS controls, able to quantify and articulate risk, then select proportionate, cost-effective controls.
  • Pen-testing & threat-modelling - scoping, overseeing, and translating results into enforceable patterns and backlog items.
  • Influential communication - proven ability to engage C-suite and delivery stakeholders alike, adapting style to gain agreement and drive secure-by-design culture.
  • Teamwork and Energy – work across different functional and business teams with effective collaboration.
  • Technical depth - hands-on knowledge of cloud security, IAM, container & API security, network segmentation, encryption, and DevSecOps toolchains; capable of explaining the exploitability of complex vulnerabilities. Zero trust design thinking.
  • Mentoring & governance - experience in line-managing or coaching security architects/engineers and running architecture assurance or design-review boards.
  • Secure-system design leadership - demonstrable track record creating or validating architectures for large-scale, high-risk services using recognised frameworks (SABSA, TOGAF).

Requirements / Skills and Competence

  • Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred)
  • Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in Security Architecture.
  • CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other relevant security-related designation(s) preferred.
  • Certifications in CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF, or SABSA, cloud architecture (Microsoft, AWS, GCP)
  • Experience in identifying gaps in existing architectures.
  • Understanding of security infrastructure in Public and Private Cloud, e.g., virtual network infrastructure, hybrid IaaS/PaaS/SaaS solutions.
  • Experience in designing security architectures to mitigate threats and sound knowledge of security strategies and technologies.
  • Direct the Project and Security teams with the guidance to build policies, standards, risks, and controls frameworks supporting operational requirements for the business.
  • Good experience in security architecture design in Cloud and on-prem.
  • Design and implementation of IOT, endpoint protection, and secure IAM.
  • Understanding of authentication and authorisation technologies (SAML, LDAP, PKI, etc.) and other IAM technologies
  • Understanding of the implementation, operation, and maintenance of SIEM, boundary protection technologies (firewalls, mail gateways), Antivirus, and AD security products
  • Knowledge of web application architectures and threat modelling.
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Information Security Administrator

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Johannesburg, Gauteng FNB South Africa

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Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen. As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.


Responsibilities

  • To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy and baseline standards.

  • Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.

  • Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security.

  • Support IT Security leaders to participate in the FirstRand
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Information Security Administrator

Johannesburg, Gauteng Rmbwestport

Posted 5 days ago

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Information Security Administrator page is loaded# Information Security Administratorlocations: Johannesburgtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: September 6, 2025 (9 days left to apply)job requisition id: R38727# **Job Description**Hello Future Information Security Administrator Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen. As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. . To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy and baseline standards**Are you someone who can:*** Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.* Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security.* Support IT Security leaders to participate in the FirstRand
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Information Security Administrator

Johannesburg, Gauteng Wesbank

Posted 6 days ago

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Information Security Administrator page is loaded# Information Security Administratorlocations: Johannesburgtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: September 6, 2025 (9 days left to apply)job requisition id: R38724# **Job Description**Hello Future Information Security Administrator Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen. As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. . To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy and baseline standards**Are you someone who can:*** Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.* Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security.* Support IT Security leaders to participate in the FirstRand
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Information Security Consultant

Cape Town, Western Cape iLaunch (Pty) Ltd

Posted 27 days ago

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Job Description

Our client, a leading financial services firm, is seeking an Information Security Consultant to join their team on a permanent basis.

Responsibilities
  • Security Auditing
  • Responsible for Security tools monitoring
  • Network experience (TCP/IP, Firewalls, IPS, NAC)
  • Operating System management and Hardening
  • Anti-Virus System management and Configuration
  • Logical Access Management
  • Vulnerability Management
Minimum Requirements
  • Matric and an Information Technology diploma or degree qualification
  • 4+ years experience in the field
Package & Remuneration

Salary: Market Related

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Job Description Our client, a leading financial services firm, is seeking an Information Security Consultant to join their team on a permanent basis. Responsibilities Security Auditing Responsible for Security tools monitoring Network experience (TCP/IP, Firewalls, IPS, NAC) Operating System management and Hardening Anti-Virus System management and Configuration Logical Access Management Vulnerability Management Minimum Requirements Matric and an Information Technology diploma or degree qualification 4+ years experience in the field Package & Remuneration Salary: Market Related #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Information security administrator

Johannesburg, Gauteng Rmbwestport

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Information Security Administrator page is loaded# Information Security Administratorlocations: Johannesburgtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: September 6, 2025 (9 days left to apply)job requisition id: R38727# **Job Description**Hello Future Information Security Administrator Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables.

We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious.

Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy and baseline standards**Are you someone who can:*** Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.* Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security.* Support IT Security leaders to participate in the First Rand
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Information security administrator

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Johannesburg, Gauteng Wesbank

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Information Security Administrator page is loaded# Information Security Administratorlocations: Johannesburgtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: September 6, 2025 (9 days left to apply)job requisition id: R38724# **Job Description**Hello Future Information Security Administrator Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen. As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. To assist in identifying, defining and maintaining the information security policy and baseline standards**Are you someone who can:*** Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions.* Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing expert advice and consulting on all aspects of IT security.* Support IT Security leaders to participate in the First Rand
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