IT Security Assesment Specialist

I am looking for a colleague that will stand at the helm of global IT Security projects, coordinating and ensuring their successful implementation. This position is open in a prosperous FinTech company with very successful operations in the Czech and international markets. The company promotes a flat structure and informal ambiance.

In this position, you should be able to independently work on assigned assessments and/or detected incidents and crises, swiftly respond and escalate when necessary. Additionally, you help to identify root cause, proposes and defines direct and long-term corrective measures and also takes ownership for actions of incident prevention.

Finally, you should be able to manage remediation activities identified during internal/external audits across all entities. The role also proposes the best assessment methodology and ensures that the level of security is in line with internal IT Security documentation & legal/regulatory requirements.

• Investigates security breaches and other cybersecurity incidents


• Suggests IT security recommendations and designs appropriate IT security measures regarding identified findings from IT security incidents or assessments


• Assesses and enforces remediation activities in the company


• Manages related IT security solutions/tools for IT security investigation


• Handles events such as identifying security issues, extensive troubleshooting, and coordinating resolution. The events can include hardware/software failures as well as security breaches and threats, or network connectivity issues.


• Conducts IT security assessments and evaluations discover vulnerabilities in information systems, performs penetration tests. Identifies and resolves potential security breaches and vulnerability issues.


• Fully coordinates or supports activities to ensure compliance with internal and external IT security requirements


• Properly reports and tracks the remediation of IT security assessments findings

• min. 2 years experience in IT / information security, IT audit or IT risk management area


• Good experience with the management of crisis situations, multicultural and multinational communication


• General knowledge of/about:
  
  
  
  • IT security assessment and security audit techniques
  
  
  • IT and Information Security good practice (ITIL, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS etc.)
  
  
  • Microsoft, UNIX and middleware infrastructure administration, IT architecture, and network security
  
  
  
  

• Ability to quickly analyze the situation and identify root cause, define corrective measures and take ownership to prevent incidents if possible


• Experience with penetration testing (web & mobile applications, operating systems, services)


• Proven track of 1-year experience in assessor role


• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Professional certification in the areas of information security, IT / security audit techniques is an advantage

ManpowerGroup s.r.o.
Eva Picková