Cyber Security Assistant

Reports To: Cyber Security Officer     

Department: ICT

Job Summary: The Cyber Security Assistant will be responsible for assisting in safeguarding the integrity and security of the mass enrolment and mass renewal process and the gadgets that aid the process by identifying, assessing, and mitigating cyber threats.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

·Assists in designing, implementing, maintaining and reporting on appropriate system security

·Assists in ensuring staff compliance with approved ICT security policy and standards

·Assists in conducting tests of the disaster recovery plan

·Assists in coordinating access controls, detecting physical and system intrusion, and monitoring the CCTVs.

·Assist in staying up to date with the ever revolving cyber threats and the available updated security measures by carrying out continuous research

·Assists in responding to cyber and physical threats in a timely and efficient manner

· Assists in making incident reports on any threats.

·Ensuring that data protection and privacy in accordance with the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 is embedded.

·Perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the Manager Information Systems

Qualifications / Education

·Minimum of a bachelor’s degree with Honours in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Information Systems, Information Technology or any related field

·In-depth knowledge and experience in cyber security

·Knowledge of management of hardware including servers, storage systems, data backup systems, desktops, access control devices and related devices.

·Knowledge and experience in management and maintenance of Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN), in addition to setting up network security features like firewalls

Experience and Skills

·Proven cyber security experience will be an added advantage.

·Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically, Ability to work under pressure and deadlines, Ability to work with or without supervision, Ability to sit for long working on a computer, Flexibility to work night shift and weekends.

·Accuracy, Team player, Good organizational skills, Cost awareness

Apply at: https://recruitment.nira.go.ug/jobs/detail/cyber-security-assistant-12