M-Pesa is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. Starting from 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked could make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 60 million active customers Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion. M-Pesa Africa is the largest FinTech providing services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses solutions across Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail. We are now well on our way to becoming the preferred digital payment method across the markets that we serve, for both in-store, remote and online payments.
With headquarters in both Nairobi and Johannesburg, we serve markets that include Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Lesotho, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
We are a united, energetic and passionate team. A place where leaders coach, teams connect, and everyone is empowered to go further, faster. A place where heroes become superheroes; through growth, opportunity, and the chance to work with the best minds in FinTech.
Reporting to Manager Cyber Security Prevent (MPA), as the Senior Specialist – Cloud & Network CyberSecurity, you will be responsible for the overall High/Low Level design and working configuration for the network security capabilities that support reliable and secure hosted and collaborative services across the whole M-Pesa Africa business.
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Drive increased security of our Cloud and network end to end within the M-Pesa processes; Support with Cloud Security and Network Architecture to all projects. Provide HLDs, LLDs, define templates, modularize and industrialize configuration items and implementation. Deploy cloud and network fit for purpose including understanding of how our services/applications layer will run across the network (capacity, capability, utilization) Implement automation of Network related controls across the organization on both cloud and on-premises; Implement evolved cybersecurity initiatives such as A.I., Zero Trust and others that touch on Network Security. Experienced with Azure security services (IAM, Security Groups, VPC, WAF, etc.). Experienced with Cloud Security Operations, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection. Familiar with shared responsibility models in cloud environments as well as Privileged Access management, Cloud Threat prevention on Azure Cloud Responsible to ensure a network documentation for both cloud and on-premises; Responsible to ensure network harmonization and standardization across the Region / the local market and cloud environments; Being a SPOC in Cyber Security for one African Market and backup SPOC for another, assisting with remediation of vulnerabilities, patching and systems hardening; Maintenance and support of various cybersecurity systems including (but not limited to) Firewalls, WAF, Antivirus, Logging Solutions, Network and Host IDS/IPS. Troubleshoot and remediate Level 1/2/3 issues impacting Cybersecurity operations Facilitate implementation, management and optimization of Cyber Security policies, standards and procedures; Provide support for cyber incident detection and response; Drive standards of excellence to achieve the Cyber Security strategy Implement actions to close MPA risks, Audit & Reviews (Internal and External) Improvement of the Cyber security posture of the company through several initiatives, including but not limited to Cyber Security Baselines
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