Cyber Security Specialist

Introduction

Our Company is looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to work at one of our Clients in Midrand.

12 Month Contract

Rate:  R 747.70 per hour, no benefits

Hybrid:  3 days at the Office, 2 days at Home.

Role Purpose

Lead the establishment, operation and continuous improvement of Vodacom’s Continuous

Threat Exposure Management capability. The role is accountable for providing a unified, riskbased

view of cyber exposure across critical business services, infrastructure,

telecommunications platforms, cloud environments, applications, APIs, identities, data, AI

systems and approved third parties.

The role will drive the complete exposure lifecycle, from discovery and prioritisation through

remediation, validation, exception management and executive reporting, with success

measured by verified risk reduction rather than vulnerability volumes.

Duties & Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Define and maintain the exposure-management strategy, operating model, roadmap,

governance framework, standards and performance measures.

• Establish continuous discovery and reconciliation of assets and exposures against

authoritative inventories.

• Integrate and correlate findings from vulnerability management, attack-surface

management, cloud, identity, application-security testing, penetration testing, threat

intelligence, incidents, audits and control-assurance activities.

• Prioritise exposures using business criticality, customer impact, internet exposure,

reachability, attack paths, privilege, known exploitation, threat intelligence, CVSS, CISA

KEV and EPSS, rather than technical severity alone.

• Maintain a single governed exposure backlog with accountable owners, required

actions, target dates, dependencies, exceptions, evidence and audit trails.

• Coordinate remediation across infrastructure, network, cloud, application, identity,

supplier, business and market teams.

• Lead urgent escalation and coordinated response for actively exploited vulnerabilities,

credible zero-days, exposed privileged paths and critical control failures.

• Establish independent, evidence-based validation of remediation and ensure exposures

are reopened where validation fails or evidence is insufficient.

• Govern time-bound risk acceptances, compensating controls and escalation of overdue

exposures, ownership gaps and remediation blockers.

• Provide operational and executive reporting on exposure coverage, critical attack paths,

ageing, remediation performance, exceptions, recurring issues and verified risk

reduction.

Manage exposure-management tooling, integrations, data quality, automation and

supporting service-provider performance.

• Convert recurring exposure themes into systemic control improvements, architecture

changes, security testing, supplier actions or problem-management initiatives.

Success Measures

• Coverage of priority business services and critical technology assets

• Reduction in critical attack paths and known-exploited exposures

• Remediation performance against approved targets

• Reduction in overdue, recurring and reopened exposures

• Percentage of material exposures with accountable owners

• Quality and timeliness of risk acceptances

• Successful independent validation of exposure closure

• Demonstrable and sustained reduction in residual cyber risk

Desired Experience & Qualification

Experience and Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, technology, engineering or

risk management.

• Significant experience leading vulnerability management, exposure management,

cyber-risk reduction, security testing or a related enterprise security capability.

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure, cloud, identity, application, API, network and

telecommunications security.

• Experience coordinating remediation across complex technology and business

environments.

• Strong understanding of attack-path analysis, threat-informed prioritisation, security

assurance and exception governance.

• Experience managing executive reporting, governance forums, senior stakeholders and

service providers.

• Relevant certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, OSCP or GIAC is

advantageous.

• Knowledge of NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS is advantageous.

Key Competencies

Strategic leadership, business-focused risk judgement, stakeholder influence, executive

communication, analytical decision-making, delivery discipline, constructive challenge and the

ability to coordinate action during urgent cyber exposure events.

Role Boundary

The role is accountable for identifying, contextualising, prioritising, coordinating and assuring

exposure reduction. Technology, application, platform, business-service and market owners

remain accountable for implementing remediation and providing closure evidence. Formal risk

acceptance remains with the appropriately delegated business or risk authority.

Package & Remuneration

R 747.70 per hour, no benefits