Job Description

• Establish, implement, and continuously enhance the SOC operating model, ensuring scalable, resilient, and effective 24/7 security monitoring and incident response capabilities.
• Lead and oversee all SOC functions, including security monitoring, alert triage, threat detection, incident response, digital forensics, and recovery activities.
• Define and implement SOC strategy, roadmap, and maturity improvement plans aligned with the Bank’s overall IT security strategy.
• Manage and optimize security technologies, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, WAF, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms, ensuring integration, automation, and full visibility across the Bank’s environment.
• Establish and continuously improve detection use cases, correlation rules, and playbooks to enhance detection accuracy and reduce false positives.
• Lead proactive threat hunting and adversary detection activities using threat intelligence and advanced analytics.
• Oversee end-to-end incident response management, ensuring timely detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review with proper documentation.
• Integrate and operationalize threat intelligence, ensuring relevance to the Bank’s risk profile and emerging cyber threats.
• Ensure comprehensive logging, monitoring, and visibility across infrastructure, applications, and digital banking platforms.
• Conduct root cause analysis and ensure implementation of corrective and preventive actions to strengthen the Bank’s security posture.
• Ensure SOC readiness for major cyber incidents and crisis situations, including leading cyber drills, simulations, and incident response exercises.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Security and Application Security and Identity Management, to ensure timely remediation of incidents and alignment of controls.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory directives, internal policies, and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, and PCI DSS, including requirements from the National Bank of Ethiopia.
• Define and monitor SOC KPIs and performance metrics, including detection time, response time, incident trends, and operational efficiency.
• Prepare and present regular reports on threat landscape, SOC performance, incidents, and risks to the management

Job Requirements

First Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Computer Engineering/MIS/or related fields with 9 years of relevant experience of which 3 years in supervisory level.

How To Apply

• • Only highly qualified & short-listed candidates will be contacted
  • Any physical application request will not be accepted
  • The Bank has the right to cancel the post advertised

Link https://forms.gle/msVHJxqGr9GK8FV89 Job Requirements This role requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, MIS or a related field and a minimum of nine years of relevant experience, including three years at a supervisory level. The successful candidate will lead the Security Operations Center (SOC) within a banking environment, ensuring 24/7 monitoring, incident response, and threat detection capabilities. How to Apply Apply using the provided link below.