Applications & Infrastructure Security Officer

About the role

Co-operative Bank is looking for a proactive, technically skilled Applications and Infrastructure Security Officer to strengthen its information security posture. The role covers managing security solutions, monitoring systems for suspicious activity, enforcing security policies and supporting secure technology implementations to protect the bank's systems, data and digital services. It is a full-time position based in Nairobi.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain ICT security solutions, including web application firewalls, anti-malware, data loss prevention, endpoint encryption, privileged access management and multi-factor authentication.
• Coordinate the review and resolution of vulnerability assessment findings, recommend security enhancements and ensure security assessments are completed for new products, innovations and infrastructure upgrades.
• Analyse system and application logs to identify indicators of compromise and suspicious activity, and enforce security policies, configuration baselines and least-privilege access controls.
• Support the identification, logging, investigation and resolution of security incidents, coordinate root cause analysis and monitor system availability.
• Research, implement and maintain security tool integrations to improve threat visibility and detection.
• Develop security dashboards, reports and metrics, and communicate security risks and policy gaps to ICT teams and project stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related IT discipline; a business degree is also considered with relevant IT security qualifications.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CCNA, CISA, CISSP, CCIE Security, CEH, DevSecOps, CRTP or CRTE.
• Practical experience or working knowledge of vulnerability assessments, security assessments, penetration testing and security architecture reviews.
• Strong analytical, communication, reporting and stakeholder management skills.

To apply, send a cover letter and detailed CV to the recruiter, quoting job reference AISO/IID/2026, by 11 November 2026.