Equity Bank Limited (The “Bank”) is incorporated, registered under the Kenyan Companies Act Cap 486 and domiciled in Kenya. The address of the Bank’s registered office is 9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 – 00200 Nairobi. The Bank is licensed under the Kenya Banking Act (Chapter 488), and continues to offer retail banking, microfinance and related services. The Bank has subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Tanzania. Its shares are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and Uganda Securities Exchange. Equity Bank was founded as Equity Building Society (EBS) in October 1984 and was originally a provider of mortgage financing for the majority of customers who fell into the low income population.

Job Purpose:   

This entails monitoring networks to detect any intrusion or hostile activities. It also involves taking measures such as carry out design, implementation, and administration of technical cybersecurity defenses for firewalling, segmentation, network intrusion detection, and prevention; network access monitoring and control, network vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc., to defend against malicious attacks on the systems.

Job Responsibilities

•  Maintaining LAN, WLAN and architecture of the Network as per the business policy
• Measure, analyze and implement new security protocols for greater efficiency against any threat or malfunctions.
• Generating and maintaining the virtual private network, firewalls, web protocols and email security decorum.
• Reporting the security analysis of findings.
• Investigations of Network Security breach alert.
• Drive the implementation of Security standard for Network devices across the Group.
• Conduct periodic security reviews on the Network infrastructure and also reviewing connection matrix.
• Monitoring of web security gateways, perimeter security, network access controls, endpoint security

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience 

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology (specifically security)
• 3-5 years’ experience in core network technologies of a telecom or Banking environment
• 3-5 years working experience in managing information security in a large organization
• Experience in designing and implementing organization wide information security Network architecture and framework
• Experience in managing and implementing large scale information security Network projects
• Advanced working understanding of the information technology and Networking environment of a Financial and Technology driven         Organization

Preferred certifications: 

•  CISSP, CCNP, Network +, CISM, CGEIT or equivalent.