DIGITAL Profiles Skills Assessment

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Business

    • Summary statement
    Proposes, plans and manages functional development of the Information System (IS) focusing upon the needs of users.

    Mission
    Aligns the Information System to the business strategy within their area/domain. Ensures continuous enhancement whilst accounting for user requirements, service quality and budgetary constraints.

    Main task/s
    • Manage the information and communication technology development focused on user needs
    • Prepare for changes to the Information System influenced by technology updates or user needs
    • Formalise, consolidate and drive the development of the IS configuration
    • Evaluate the relevance of the Information Systems to users
    • Liaise between the user community and the IS infrastructure
    • Translate user requirements into functional specifications
    • Summary statement
    Develops and maintains Information Systems to generate value for the business and meet the organisation’s needs.

    Mission
    Ensures the alignment of the Information Systems strategy with the business strategy. Provides leadership for the implementation and development of the organisations architecture and applications.

    Main task/s
    • Enable the company’s digital strategy
    • Define and implement ICT strategy and ICT governance
    • Ensure the reliability, confidentiality, security and integrity of Information Systems
    • Ensure the quality and management of ICT customer-supplier relationships in particular contracts
    • Define and ensure compliance with Service Level Agreements
    • Ensure that ICT change management processes are implemented
    • Summary statement
    Leads the process of applying data analytics. Delivers insights from data by optimising the analytics process and presenting visual data representations.

    Mission
    Finds, manages and merges multiple data sources and ensures consistency of datasets. Identifies the mathematical models, selects and optimises the algorhythms to deliver business value through insights. Communicates patterns and recommends ways of applying data.

    Main task/s
    • Represent business challenges through mathematical models
    • Collect, understand, clean, analyse, integrate and investigate internal and external data to achieve the mission
    • Create and test hypothesis
    • Uncover data correlations/relationships in support of measurement and predication
    • Identify the right visualisation models depending on the business challenges and the data sets
    • Address data security through active preventative strategies
    • Select and optimise algorhythms using data science tools
    • Comply with ethical guidelines and legal requirements
    • Summary statement
    Manages operations, people and overall ICT resources.

    Mission
    Implements and maintains a designated part of an ICT operation ensuring that activities are conducted in accordance with organisational rules, processes and standards. Plans changes and implements them in accordance with organisational strategy and budget. Risk manages and ensures the effectiveness of the ICT infrastructure.

    Main task/s
    • Coordinate and manage staff
    • Direct, organize, plan and monitor activities
    • Negotiate the objectives and resources
    • Manage the departmental budget
    • Establish and monitor management information
    • Analyse and propose solutions for continuous productivity improvement
    • Manage the implementation and monitoring of IS quality assurance and security
    • Communicate with internal business departments and project owners

Process Improvement

    • Summary statement
    Implements processes and tools to successfully deploy DevOps techniques across the entire solution development lifecycle.

    Mission
    Applies a cross-functional, collaborative approach for the creation of customer-centric software solutions. Introduces automation throughout the software production system to deliver better software faster.

    Main task/s
    • Implement and manage continuous distribution methodologies
    • Design systems with high levels of availability and scalability
    • Manage testing across the release lifecycle
    • Facilitate cross functional collaboration and engagement
    • Design and manage process automation tools
    • Adopt an agile software development methodology
    • Manage continuous integration tool management
    • Summary statement
    Provides leadershipfor the implementation of the digital transformation strategy of the organisation.

    Mission
    Drives cultural change and builds digital capability to deliver innovative business models and processes.

    Main task/s
    • Shape and deliver a digital strategy
    • Develop awareness and education to improve digital capability
    • Demonstrate the benefits of digital transformation implementation
    • Advise and support on a ‘digital by design’ approach
    • Lead cultural change required to facilitate digital strategy
    • Lead and mobilise key organisation influencers to implement digital transformation
    • Summary statement
    Represents the needs of the stakeholder community, the voice of the customer, to the agile team.

    Mission
    Understands customer requirements and validates that the developed software solution meets requirements. Links business and Agile teams.

    Main task/s
    • Build, edit, and maintain the team backlog
    • Define, prioritise and validate software requirements through User Stories
    • Establish story acceptance criteria and accept stories in the baseline
    • Drive iteration goals and iteration content
    • Work across teams to define and implement improvement stories to enhance speed and quality
    • Participate in team demo and retrospective
    • Summary statement
    Leads and coaches an agile team.

    Mission
    Creates a high performance self-managed dynamic team minimising impediments to development progress. Drives team by applying the agile process to achieve an optimesed work-flow through continuous improvement. Supports team goals and coordinates activities with other teams.

    Main task/s
    • Help team improve and take responsibilty for their actions to deploy agile values, principles and practices
    • Support Product Owner in the backlog management
    • Apply team-building techniques to improve performances
    • Promote continuous learning and professional development of team members
    • Ensure continuous improvement of software quality
    • Support team self-defined processes and rules
    • Facilitate regular team meetings, including daily stand-up, Iteration planning, team demo, and retrospective iteration

Design

    • Summary statement
    Analyses the busines domain and optimises business performance through technology application.

    Mission
    Analyses the information and the process needed to support business palns.Formulates functional and non-functional requirements of the business organisation and advises on the lifecycle of the information solutions. Evauates the impact in terms of change management.

    Main task/s
    • Contribute to the preparation of the organisation's business plan
    • Analyse business requirements and design related processes
    • Support Digital Transformation, identifying areas for improvement in business process
    • Provide possible ICT solutions compliant with the ICT Strategy
    • Develop business cases related to the proposed solutions
    • Analyse required information and documents
    • Develop plan for continuity of operations
    • Summary statement
    Ensures the implementation of the organisations data management policy. visual data representations.

    Mission
    Ensures asset protection through the provision of clean, consistent, quality assured data. Maintains the integrity of data, stores and searches data and supports presentation of data analysis.
    Main task/s
    • Define, build and optimise data models
    • Proactively protect confidentiality and security of data
    • Ensure data lifecycle support
    • Curate and archive data
    • Advise on appropriate data analytic methodology
    • Ensure data quality and integrity
    • Maintain data quality and compliance to legal standards
    • Summary statement
    Designs and maintains the holistic architecture of business processes and information systems.

    Mission
    Maintains a holistic perspective of the organisation strategy, processes, information, security and ICT assets. Links the mission, strategy and business processes to the IT strategy. Ensures project choices are integrated consistently, efficiently and in a sustainable manner according to the enterprise’s digital standards.

    Main task/s
    • Align digital and ICT strategies and planning with the organisation’s business goals
    • Anticipate future business needs and plan for how architecture will support/enable it
    • Streamline business processes, functions, procedures and workflows and apply a consistent implementation approach
    • Manage stakeholder engagement in the development of new processes and systems and verifies feasibility
    • Conduct post-implementation reviews to evaluate benefits accrued from new processes and systems
    • Build and maintain standards and enterprise architecture model and principles, for example process mapping
    • Evaluate the impact of changes within the ecosystem of the organisation (including political, technical, social, regulatory, legal) on the enterprise architecture
    • Summary statement
    Provides the translation of business requirements into end-to-end IT solutions.

    Mission
    Proposes and designs solutions in line with technical architecture which fit business requirements and support change.

    Main task/s
    • Examine and interpret business requirements
    • Establish solution intent
    • Align solution with technical architecture
    • Identify potential technical design risks
    • Supervise the built in quality
    • Operate within the budgetary framework to validate the financial impact of design decisions
    • Identify opportunities for innovation
    • Plan technology roadmaps
    • Summary statement
    Analyses organisation requirements and specifies software and system requirements for new IT solutions.

    Mission
    Ensures the technical design and contributes to the implementation of new and/or enhanced software provision. Provides solutions for the improvement of organisational efficiency and productivity.

    Main task/s
    • Analyse existing systems and business models
    • Recommend resolutions and improvements
    • Provide integrated solutions
    • Provide consolidate findings on components or processes
    • Author technical performance requirements
    • Ensure security by design
    • Maps and documents interfaces between legacy and new systems
    • Summary statement
    Plans, designs and integrates ICT system components including hardware, software and services.

    Mission
    Designs, integrates and implements complex technical ICT solutions ensuring procedures and models for development are current and comply with common standards. Monitors new technology developments and applies if appropriate. Provides technological design leadership.

    Main task/s
    • Specify and implement the architecture of complex ICT solutions
    • Lead development and integration of components
    • Lead and/ or conduct system integration
    • Ensure incorporation of security by design
    • Analyse technical and business requirements
    • Develop and maintain a comprehensive record of usability requirements

Development

    • Summary statement
    Designs and/ or codes components to meet solution specifications.

    Mission
    Ensures building and implementing of ICT applications. Contributes to lowlevel design. Writes code to ensure optimum efficiency and functionality and user experience.
    Main task/s
    • Develop engineer and integrate components
    • Follow user experience guidelines
    • Aware of and address known security vulnerabilities, applying security by design
    • Shape documentation
    • Provide advanced, component technical support
    • Resolve issues prior to and following testing
    • Summary statement
    Integrates digital technology components for internal and external communication purposes.

    Mission
    Designs and codes social media applications and websites. Makes recommendations on Application Programming Interface (API) and supports efficiency through appropriate content management systems.

    Main task/s
    • Carry out user experience design methods and translate into application requirements
    • Design web and multimedia applications content in line with user and customer needs
    • Test and resolve any technical, usability and accessibility issues
    • Ensure compliance with privacy, legal requirements and accessibility standards
    • Provide guidance on search engine optimisation (SEO)
    • Summary statement
    Designs and performs testing plans.

    Mission
    Ensures delivered or existing products, applications or services comply with technical and user needs and specifications. For existing systems, applications, innovations and changes; diagnoses failure of products or services to meet specification.

    Main task/s
    • Select and develop integration testing techniques to ensure the system meets requirements.
    • Design and customize integration tests, identify open issues.
    • Organise test plans and procedures for white and black box testing at unit, module, system and integration levels.
    • Establish procedures for result analysis and reporting.
    • Design and implement defect tracking and correction procedures
    • Write test program to assess software quality
    • Develop tools to increase test effectiveness

Service & Operation

    • Summary statement
    Designs, implements or monitors and maintains data sets, structured (databases) and unstructured (big data).

    Mission
    Administer and monitor data management systems and ensures design, consistency, quality and security.

    Main task/s
    • Apply standards methods and tools for measuring and reporting on wide set of relevant performance indicators (response time, availability, safety, integrity)
    • Produce data set procedures and instructions for other analysts or administrators
    • Monitor and maintain data management systems
    • Ensure the integrity and security of existing data management systems
    • Identify, investigate and correct problems or incidents related to data management systems
    • Provide training, support, advice and guidance on data set issues to other information system practitioners
    • Summary statement
    Ensures the alignment of the network, including telecommunication and/or computer infrastructure to meet the organisation’s communication needs.

    Mission
    Manages and operates a networked information system, solving problems and faults to ensure defined service levels. Monitors and improves network performances and security.

    Main task/s
    • Ensure communication performance, recovery, and security needs meet agreed service agreement standards
    • Contribute to define network design policies, philosophies and criteria
    • Investigate, diagnose and solve network problems
    • Use network management system tools to determine network load and model performance statistics
    • Maintain awareness of relevant legislation affecting network security
    • Configure network to protect against security threats
    • Monitor network to identify and address traffic bottle necks
    • Summary statement
    Senior focal point for client sales and customer satisfaction.

    Mission
    Builds business relationships with clients to facilitate the sale of hardware, software, telecommunications or ICT services. Identifies opportunities and manages sourcing and delivery of products to customers. Has responsibility for achieving sales targets and maintaining profitability.

    Main task/s
    • Maintain overall customer satisfaction with products and/or services
    • Identify opportunities to propose new products or services
    • Provide the primary contact point for client executive management
    • Deliver value added presentations related to products and services to customer executive management
    • Lead negotiations to establish profitable contracts with client(s)
    • Maintain and enhance business relationships
    • Summary statement
    Administers ICT System components to meet service requirements.

    Mission
    Installs software, configures and upgrades ICT systems. Administers day-today operations to satisfy continuity of service, recovery, security and performance needs.

    Main task/s
    • Investigate, diagnose and solve system related problems
    • Install and upgrades software
    • Test upgrades
    • Schedule installation work, to minimize disruption
    • Diagnose and solve hardware or software problems
    • Comply with organisation procedures to ensure integrity and security of the system
    • Summary statement
    Maintains and repairs hardware, software and service applications.

    Mission
    Effectively maintains customer hardware/software. Responsible for delivering timely and effective repairs to ensure optimal system performance and superior customer satisfaction.

    Main task/s
    • Identify software and hardware problems and repair
    • Perform regular maintenance on hardware and software components
    • Install cables and configures hardware and software
    • Document system addresses and configurations
    • Run diagnostic programs or use test equipment to locate source of problems
    • Communicate effectively with end users and customer management
    • Maintain security and functionality through application of program temporary fixes

Support

    • Summary statement
    Senior focal point for client sales and customer satisfaction.

    Mission
    Builds business relationships with clients to facilitate the sale of hardware, software, telecommunications or ICT services. Identifies opportunities and manages sourcing and delivery of products to customers. Has responsibility for achieving sales targets and maintaining profitability.

    Main task/s
    • Maintain overall customer satisfaction with products and/or services
    • Identify opportunities to propose new products or services
    • Provide the primary contact point for client executive management
    • Deliver value added presentations related to products and services to customer executive management
    • Lead negotiations to establish profitable contracts with client(s)
    • Maintain and enhance business relationships
    • Summary statement
    Supports understanding of how digital technologies add value to a business.

    Mission
    Maintains a technology watch to inform stakeholders of existing and emerging technologies and their potential to add business value. Supports the identification of needs and solutions for achieving business and IS strategic goals.

    Main task/s
    • Provide advice on how to optimize the use of existing tools and systems
    • Raise awareness of information technology innovations and potential value to a business
    • Make recommendations for the development and implementation of a business project or technological solution
    • Participate in scoping the business case for potential projects
    • Participate in the assessment and choice of digital solutions
    • Assess risks of change to business continuity and for information security
    • Summary statement
    Educates and trains Professionals to reach optimal digital competence to support business performance.

    Mission
    Provide the knowledge and skills required to ensure that people are able to effectively perform tasks in the workplace.

    Main task/s
    • Conduct training needs analyses
    • Design programs to meet needs
    • Produce and/or update existing training materials (content and method)
    • Adapt third party training material to support individual competence development in line with organisational needs
    • Deliver effective training in classroom, on-line or informally
    • Monitor, evaluate and report effectiveness of training
    • Evaluate and report student performance
    • Encourages continuous professional development
    • Summary statement
    Ensures the implementation of the organisation’s information security policy by the secure and appropriate use of ICT resources.

    Mission
    Defines, proposes and implements necessary information security techniques and practices in compliance with information security standards and procedures. Contributes to security practices, awareness and compliance by providing advice, support, information and training.
    Main task/s
    • Evaluate information security risks, threats and consequences and take appropriate action
    • Provide information security training and education
    • Provide technical validation of security tools, implement, configure and manage appropriate tools
    • Contribute to the definition of and actively promote information security standards and procedures throughout the IT and IT user communities
    • Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
    • Monitor security developments to ensure the continued efficiency and effectiveness of information security processes and controls
    • Proactively evaluate new threats and counter potential information security incidents
    • Implements security techniques on all or part of an application, process, network or system within area of responsibility

Technical

    • Summary statement
    Leads and manages the organisation information security policy.

    Mission
    Defines the information security strategy and manages implementation across the organisation. Embeds proactive information security protection by assessing, informing, alerting and educating the entire organisation.

    Main task/s
    • Define the information security strategy and standards
    • Contribute to the development of the organisation’s security policy
    • Manages security audits
    • Evaluate risks, threats and consequences
    • Establish and manage prevention, detection, correction and remediation plans
    • Inform and raise awareness among general management and across all IT users and professionals
    • Conduct information security operations
    • Summary statement
    Manages projects to achieve optimal performance and results.

    Mission
    Defines, implements and manages projects from conception to final delivery. Responsible for achieving optimal results, conforming to standards for quality, safety and sustainability and complying with defined scope, performance, costs, and schedule. Deploys agile practices where applicable.

    Main task/s
    • Organize, coordinate and lead the project team
    • Maintain stakeholder engagement and communication
    • Supervise project progress
    • Coordinate, record and ensure quality compliance
    • Circulate and distribute information from the project owner
    • Ensure the project helps to support the organisation’s wider goals
    • Comply with budgets and delivery times
    • Update the project according to changing circumstances
    • Summary statement
    Ensures that processes and organisations implementing Information Systems comply to quality policies.

    Mission
    Establishes and operates an ICT quality approach aligned with the organisation’s culture. Commits the organisation to the achievement of quality goals and an encourages an environment of continuous improvement.

    Main task/s
    • Establish and deploy the ICT quality policy
    • Organise and provide quality training
    • Provide ICT managers with quality performance indicators
    • Perform quality audits
    • Organise customer satisfaction surveys
    • Assist project team members to build and perform project quality plans
    • Summary statement
    Plans, implements and manages solution provision.

    Mission
    Manages the provision of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Operation Level Agreements (OLAs) and Key Perfomance Indicators (KPIs). Provides people management of staff monitoring, reporting and fulfilling service activities. Takes migration action in case of non-fulfillment of agreements.

    Main task/s
    • Define service requirements
    • Negotiate SLA/OLA
    • Manage solution operation
    • Provide service delivery
    • Maintain and contribute to the creation of department budget
    • Manage staff development

Security

    • Mission
    The Chief Information Officer leads the IT function and provides strategic directions, solutions and policies to support business goals. He/She develops the information strategy and services to meet business requirements including training and upgrading of systems and/or technology knowledge and skills of all staff to improve productivity through information systems. He directs and promotes governance policies and standards in relation to security, quality, risk and project management. He leads important innovation initiatives and has ultimate accountability for the function. He provides the highest level of advice and recommendations to the heads of organisations or business units. He has the ability to leverage on new and innovative technology to develop strategic directions for the IT functions alignment with the organisation objectives. He is able to propose solutions and influence key stakeholders to drive commitment for initiatives across the organisation.

    Main task/s
    • Establish information strategy
    • Develop IT policies and standards
    • Facilitate continuous improvement through technology
    • Manage IT development and operation risk
    • Manage stakeholders
    • Manage people and organisation
    • Mission
    The Chief Information Officer leads the IT function and provides strategic directions, solutions and policies to support business goals. He/She develops the information strategy and services to meet business requirements including training and upgrading of systems and/or technology knowledge and skills of all staff to improve productivity through information systems. He directs and promotes governance policies and standards in relation to security, quality, risk and project management. He leads important innovation initiatives and has ultimate accountability for the function. He provides the highest level of advice and recommendations to the heads of organisations or business units. He has the ability to leverage on new and innovative technology to develop strategic directions for the IT functions alignment with the organisation objectives. He is able to propose solutions and influence key stakeholders to drive commitment for initiatives across the organisation.

    Main task/s
    • Establish information strategy
    • Develop IT policies and standards
    • Facilitate continuous improvement through technology
    • Manage IT development and operation risk
    • Manage stakeholders
    • Manage people and organisation
    • Summary statement
    Cyber Advisors provide ICT security advice and assistance, including policy creation, project advice and assistance, and research.

    Mission
    A Cyber Security Advice and Assessment (Blue Team) role performs cyber and information security risk assessments and provides detailed technical, professional and policy advice and guidance on the application and operation of procedural security controls.

    Main task/s
    • Conduct risk and security control assessments
    • Interpret security policy and contribute to the development of standards and guidelines
    • Review information system designs
    • Provide guidance on security strategies to manage identified risks
    • Provide specialist advice
    • Explain systems security and the strengths and weaknesses
    • Summary statement
    Cyber Threat Analysts need to understand cyber intrusion activities then use their research skills to provide reporting on threat modelling and intelligence.

    Mission
    A Cyber Threat Analyst performs cyber security research, analysis, and strategic threat assessments. A Cyber Threat Analyst undertakes detailed cyber event analysis, intelligence assessments, and professional and policy advice for identified cyber threats.

    Main task/s
    • Prepare and deliver briefs and cyber threat intelligence reports
    • Identify and undertake complex research and analysis of relevant cyber threat actors
    • Provide situational awareness on current and emerging threats
    • Analyse identified cyber threat event data and fuse with all-source intelligence
    • Understand and use analytical tools and techniques
    • Summary statement
    Incident Responders analyse and investigate a range of complex cyber and information security tasks, including forensic analysis to find sophisticated malicious cyber actors and provide remediation and mitigation advice to protect and secure systems and networks.

    Mission
    An Incident Responder performs analysis and investigations of cyber security incidents, often malicious, to remediate networks and provide mitigation advice to protect and secure systems.

    Main task/s
    • Investigate information and cyber security incidents
    • Analyse and resolve identified security incidents
    • Contribute to digital forensic investigations
    • Communicate technical findings and recommendations
    • Provide assistance with the development of technical remediation plan
    • Summary statement
    Intrusion Analysts identify, track and discover sophisticated malicious cyber activity targeting systems and networks.

    Mission
    An Intrusion Analyst plans, coordinates and conducts proactive cyber threat discovery activities to identify potential intrusion or anomalous behaviour based on cyber threat intelligence. An Intrusion Analyst assesses and evaluates cyber threat intelligence for indicators of compromise, and provides detailed planning, analysis and reporting on current and emerging threats to information systems.

    Main task/s
    • Plan, coordinate and conduct network and system activity
    • Understand and apply cyber threat models
    • Assess and evaluate cyber threat intelligence
    • Communicate technical findings and recommendations
    • Design and develop complex technical and procedural systems
    • Summary statement
    Malware Analysts identify and understanding malware code, then create code that can defend networks against cyber-attacks.

    Mission
    A Malware Analyst analyses the functionality, origin and potential impacts of malware, through reverse-engineering, development and research of design systems and software components, to defend networks against malicious threats.

    Main task/s
    • Analyse the functionality, origin and potential impacts of malware
    • Provide detailed and specific advice regarding the application of malware analysis
    • Contribute to incident response and digital forensic investigations
    • Communicate technical findings and recommendations
    • Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor complex programs, scripts and integration software services
    • Design system and software components using appropriate modelling techniques
    • Summary statement
    Operations Coordinators plan and coordinate incident responses for cyber intrusions affecting industry and networks.

    Mission
    An Operations Coordinator manages tasks associated with cyber security incidents across various teams for incident response and hunt operations, including setting priorities and engaging with customers. An Operations Coordinator provides detailed technical advice and contributes to policy development, strategic planning, and program and project management.

    Main task/s
    • Lead the coordination, governance and response to complex cyber security incidents and hunt investigations
    • Manage tasks across various teams for incident response and hunt operations
    • Advise leadership on current operational collaborations and contribute toward strategic planning
    • Facilitiate incident response engagements
    • Assess technical information to develop key messaging
    • Summary statement
    Penetration Testers analyse IT systems to determine configuration weaknesses and faults that would impact on security and business then produce reports detailing the findings and recommendations for improved network security.

    Mission
    A Penetration Tester (Red Team) performs cyber security exploitation, penetration testing and red team activities. A Penetration Tester creates test cases using in-depth technical analysis of risks and typical vulnerabilities and produce test scripts, materials and packs to test new and existing software or services. A Penetration Tester plans, coordinates and conducts cyber threat emulation activities in support of certification, accreditation, and operational priorities to verify deficiencies in technical security controls. A Penetration Tester provides remediation, technical advice, recommendations and consultancy on networks, infrastructure, products and services supplied to system owners.

    Main task/s
    • Plan, coordinate and conduct cyber threat emulation activities
    • Provide complex technical advice, recommendations and consultancy
    • Communicate technical findings and recommendations
    • Create test cases using in-depth technical analysis of risks and typical vulnerabilities
    • Assess cyber threat intelligence and interpret threat reporting
    • Summary statement
    Security Architects design, review, test and assure the technical environment, solution designs and solution implementations in accordance with current and emerging security best practice. They contribute to the technical architecture and security policies and practices.

    Mission
    Security Architects design, review, test and assure the technical environment, solution designs and solution implementations in accordance with current and emerging security best practice. They contribute to the technical architecture and security policies and practices.

    Main task/s
    • Interprets relevant security policies and threat/risk profiles into secure architectural solutions that mitigate the risks and conform to legislation and relate to business needs.
    • Applies common architectural frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA).
    • Presents security architecture solutions as a view within broader IT architectures.
    • Maintains awareness of the security advantages and vulnerabilities of common products and technologies. Designs robust and fault-tolerant security mechanisms and components appropriate to the perceived risks.
    • Develops and implements appropriate methodologies, templates, patterns and frameworks.
    • Summary statement
    Vulnerability Assessors identify, assess and prioritise threat vulnerabilities identified through penetration testing and report findings to improve security architecture and enhance risk awareness.

    Mission
    A Vulnerability Assessor performs technical security investigations on a wide array of assets and devices that directly relate to security infrastructure. A Vulnerability Assessor evaluates and assists with the application and compliance of security controls, reviews information systems for actual or potential security vulnerabilities, and explains threat profiles of a variety of electronic devices. A Vulnerability Assessor contributes to the development of systems design policies and standards, and selection of architecture components.

    Main task/s
    • Perform complex security investigations
    • Assess and explain threat profiles for a variety of electronic devices
    • Evaluate and assist with the application and compliance of security controls
    • Review information systems for actual or potential security vulnerabilities
    • Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor complex programs, scripts and integration software services
    • Summary statement
    Vulnerability Researchers perform research on known vulnerabilities and exploits to develop mitigation strategies and tools that can be deployed on network infrastructures, apps and websites.

    Mission
    A Vulnerability Researcher plans, coordinates and conducts cyber vulnerability research activities to identify deficiencies and impacts on systems and emerging technologies, develop proof of concept exploits, and support certification, accreditation and operational priorities.

    Main task/s
    • Plan and coordinate vulnerability research assessments
    • Conduct cyber research activities in order to identify deficiencies and impact on systems
    • Conduct complex applied research
    • Identify and evaluate alternative design options
    • Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor complex programs, scripts and integration software services
    • Communicate technical findings and recommendations




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