Senior Specialist - IT Security Delivery

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.

Years of Experience:

• 6-8 years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT security delivery across corporate and asset environments.

JOB PURPOSE:

Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with the Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs.

Core Responsibilities:

Readiness governance and gates

·       Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback).

·       Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off.

·       Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods.

Test planning, data, and environments

·       Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios.

·       Ensure observer participation (Ops, platform SMEs) for test credibility.

Defect, risk, and issue management

·       Manage defect triage; assign owners/severity; track fix SLAs and re-tests.

·       Maintain RAID logs; escalate blockers; quantify residual risk at release.

Validation packs and traceability

·       Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability matrices); ensure versioned storage and approvals.

·       Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by QA/Excellence and ensure quick resolution of returns.

Handover and run readiness

·       Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts.

·       Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live.

·       Stakeholder coordination and communications

·       Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules.

·       Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums.

Continuous improvement

·       Track change success rate and checklists accordingly.

Security Control Evaluation, POC, and Implementation

·       Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs.

·       Oversee Proof of Concept activities, including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting.

·       Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value.

·       Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction.