Information Security Administrator
Role Overview
Supports and strengthens the organization's Information Security function through day-to-day operations, governance, compliance, and risk management.
Works with the Head of Information Security (CISO), internal security team, and a Managed SOC partner to protect information assets and meet regulatory and industry standards.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Supports and strengthens the organization's Information Security function through day-to-day operations, governance, compliance, and risk management.
Works with the Head of Information Security (CISO), internal security team, and a Managed SOC partner to protect information assets and meet regulatory and industry standards.
Security operations and governance
- Administer security operations and coordinate monitoring, assessment, and response to security events with the internal team and Managed SOC partner.
- Support incident management, vulnerability remediation, security monitoring, and implementation of controls across IT infrastructure and business applications.
- Maintain the GRC framework, assess security risks, monitor mitigations, and manage vendor security assessments and compliance reviews.
- Support regulatory and policy compliance, audits, and closure of audit findings.
Policies, risk, and collaboration
- Draft, review, update, and maintain security policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, and SOPs; keep documentation aligned with regulatory and business requirements.
- Support data protection, privacy, AI governance, emerging-technology security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and business impact analysis activities.
- Collaborate with IT, application, risk, compliance, audit, business teams, external auditors, regulators, consultants, and vendors; provide security guidance.
- Monitor threats and industry practices, recommend improvements, and support security awareness and a security-focused culture.
Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Requires 5–6 years of relevant Information Security, GRC, or Cyber Security experience.
- Experience in insurance, banking, financial services, or healthcare is preferred; Managed SOC experience is an advantage.
Preferred certifications and competencies
- Preferred certifications include ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor, CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+, CRISC, and CEH.
- Calls for analytical problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, attention to detail, documentation, prioritization, and collaboration.
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