Roles and Responsibilities
- Channel Application Security lead, overseeing the team that provides day-to-day support for incidents and issues.
- Proactively reviews business volumes and trends for abnormalities. Take early prevention actions to avoid service disruptions.
- Manage, coordinate and drive all incidents relating to critical CAS applications to resolution and closure.
- Assess impact of incidents and work out workarounds & contingencies.
- Identify areas of improvements in problem restoration.
- Work with various teams to provide solutions to resolve security issues raised for internal and regulatory compliance.
- Facilitate system and scenario testing to ensure business functionality requirements are met.
- Occasionally supporting ongoing project implementation related to security appliances, digital or physical tokens, file transfers between external and internal partners.
- Manage team of 5-6 Engineers, providing guidance and direction to meet core objectives
Performance Requirements:
- Experience with all phases of software development life cycle from Business Requirement Analysis to Production implementation.
- Highly analytical with strong understanding of the IT fundamentals and general knowledge on Enterprise IT
- Able to perform in a leadership role to manage the team, assuming all responsibilities as the key contact person for the applications under the team’s umbrella.
- Positive attitude towards continuous learning. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Work under minimal supervision & take ownership of incidents end to end.
- Demonstrated willingness and capability to learn, assimilate, and act upon large amounts of information rapidly.
- Self-driven, independent but with a balanced risk attitude – know when to escalate and when to make informed decisions.
Technology Competencies and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Minimum 12-15 years of experience in building, administering, engineering of full stack application end-to-end implementations, with at least 5 years in a lead/senior position.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in supporting banking or large corporate environments which provide real-time services to more than 1 million public consumers.
- Experience in security appliances management i.e., Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and other appliances in payment and storage.
- Experience in handling complex application flows related to second factor authentication and authorization (2FA) with familiarities to SMS OTP, hardware digital tokens.
- Working knowledge of multiple OS platforms including but not limited to Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux
- Knowledge of cryptography, key management, authentication and authorization schemes or protocol.
- Experience in monitoring, tuning and scripting for automation is a plus.
- Sound understanding of High Availability Implementations. Hands on experience in Clustering, Load Balancing and Failover management, Security, Logging, Auditing and TCP/IP Networks.
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or other certification in cyber security is an advantage.
