Job Title: IT Security Support Analyst (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: KCB Bank Uganda Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About the Company:
KCB Bank Uganda Limited which is part of KCB Group, East Africa’s largest commercial bank that was established in 1896. Over the years, the Bank has grown and spread its wings into Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi completing the East African circuit in the year 2012. Today, the Group has the largest branch network in the region with over 238 branches, 950 ATMs and 8,000 agents offering banking services on a 24/7 basis in East Africa. KCB Bank Uganda was established in the year 2007 and has grown to become one of Uganda’s top ten commercial banks.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement the strategic initiatives attributed to IT Security, which will protect data and information systems against unauthorized access, modification, and/or destruction.
- Maintain the established intrusion detection mechanisms and assess system patterns to detect unusual patterns of behaviour, quickly determine the cause, and deal with any threat.
- Analyse reports generated by the monitoring system to identify trends that might indicate a future risk.
- Detect and ensure resolution of the security breaches by performing vulnerability/port scanning to determine vulnerabilities.
- Ensure remediation of the gaps in the bank’s security measures, such as firewalls, anti-virus, and patch management, to identify any weak points that might make information systems vulnerable to attack by supporting with PEN tests.
- Participate in the system availability by ensuring disaster preparedness, development, and preparation of the conducting preparedness tests (BCM)
- Performing configuration assessment to ensure system setup and configurations are implemented with a high level of security as per standard.
- Utilize and improve system security products, services, protocols, and standards in support of systems security continuous improvements.
- Address security incidents and problems through final resolution for the bank’s server/endpoint OS, virtual environments, databases, middleware, and Applications.
- Implement policies, procedures, processes, standards, and guidelines for systems security administration and appropriate use.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should have relevant qualifications
How to Apply:
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
Deadline: 24th April 2025
Note: Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.