Data Privacy and Information Protection Administrator - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to administer, support and maintain data privacy and information protection-related technologies and solutions within the Cyber Security Operations (CSO) Division in the Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD), for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Group.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Administer, monitor and maintain data loss prevention activities and technologies in the SARB to protect the privacy, security and confidentiality of the SARB’s information.
• Coordinate the review of technical configuration documentation and maintain and store back-ups thereof. 
• Fulfil the activities related to service requests and incidents to ensure the timeous resolution thereof.
• Provide system support services for data protection technologies to the business areas.
• Review data and define and/or generate reports based on agreed management and/or audit requirements. 
• Diagnose problems and choose and/or modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions/approaches for problems within a defined context. 
• Engage on an operational level with relevant stakeholders, role players and service providers, displaying a service orientation in own work and ensuring commitment to a common goal. 
• Proactively broaden own knowledge of the data privacy and information protection area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices).
• Provide regular status updates (daily, weekly and monthly) to manager and team members, as defined.
• Evaluate own performance against a given criteria, while identifying and addressing task-specific learning needs.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of: 

• a minimum of a National Diploma (NQF 6) in Information Technology or an equivalent qualification;
• a minimum of one to three years’ experience in a cybersecurity and/or information protection or similar environment.

Additional requirements include:     

• verbal and written communication skills;
• analytical and problem-solving skills;
• judgement and decision-making skills;
• drive for results;
• learning focus;
• team focus; 
• planning and organising; and
• service and stakeholder focus.