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  • Date posted

    May 8, 2026

  • Closing date

    May 8, 2026

  • Location

    KE Kenya

  • Career level

    Mid Level

  • Qualification

    Bachelor Degree

  • Experience

    2–5 Years

Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Monitor user and system activity to identify suspicious activities leveraging on security systems. 

  • Monitor network activity and investigate anomalous events and traffic trends   
  • Check security monitoring status of systems on monitoring tools and initiate remediation of noted gaps. 
  • Monitor alerts and alarms from security monitoring tools and initiate corrective actions 

  • Configure and finetune security monitoring systems to make sure the Bank is sufficiently protected 

  • Administer security tools ensuring optimal uptime and resource utilization 
  • Investigate suspicious user and system events and identify breaches and root cause. 

  • Mitigate intrusion attempts through proactive response to incidents. 
  • Prepare manual and scheduled reports for various stakeholders 
  • Research and stay up to date on technology and cybersecurity trends 

 

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Monitor event logs from various systems (firewalls, email, web and DNS, databases, etc) to identify suspicious activities for attacks, intrusions, and unusual, unauthorised, or illegal activity. 

  • Perform incident drilldowns and investigations and escalate validated incident to designated incident response teams. 

  • Follow up on security incidents with relevant support teams and ensure timely resolution. 
  • Administer the performance, resource utilisation and overall health of the Bank’s security monitoring tools. 

  • Prepare and circulate SOC management reports and dashboards.

 

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

a. Academic and Professional 

Particulars 

Detail 

Specific Field or Qualification 

Need Type

Education 

Bachelor’s 

Degree 

BSc. Information Technology / Computer Science / Cybersecurity / Engineering 

(Electrical, Electronic) or related field 

RQ 

Professional 

Certifications 

Information security certifications including, but not limited to:

 

Certified SOC Analyst (CSA)

Certified Incident Handler (E|CIH)

Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

PENTEST+

Security+

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

AA

 

Particulars 

Detail 

Specific Field or Qualification 

Need Type

 

 

Any SIEM certification such as those from Splunk, IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, ArcSight, AlienVault, etc.

AA 

 

Any vendor-specific information security certification such as those from Palo Alto, Cisco, etc.

AA 

Master’s Degree 

MBA / MSc Cybersecurity / Information 

Systems Security / IT Security / IT 

AA 

 

 

b. Experience

 

Total Minimum Number of Years of IT Experience Required  

3

 

Detail 

Minimum No. of Years 

Need Type

Experience in Cybersecurity

2

ES 

Experience in System/ Network/ Database or 

Cloud Platform Administration, or Application Development 

1

DE 

 

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