Information Security Specialist

7 days ago


Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company Full time

Welcome to Metrobank, where we believe in empowering our employees to become future leaders in the field of cybersecurity.

This role involves designing and engineering the security infrastructure of our bank, ensuring that network and system security best practices are executed and implemented. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to achieve continuous improvement in the Bank's cyber defense/resilience posture.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional who can serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for enterprise-wide IT and security projects. This includes identifying security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommending changes or enhancements.

  • Responsible for keeping the security infrastructure current, making recommendations, and participating in the implementation and continuous improvement of security technologies and services in assigned information security domains.
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with enterprise architects, infrastructure engineers, and data scientists to achieve continuous improvement in the Bank's cyber defense/resilience posture.
Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Designing and engineering the security infrastructure of our bank, including network and system security testing and implementation of new products and services.
  • Serving as a subject matter expert (SME) for enterprise-wide IT and security projects.
  • Identifying security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommending changes or enhancements.
  • Analyzing existing cloud structures and creating new and enhanced security methods to enhance the security of on-premise and cloud-based environments.
Required Skills and Qualifications

The ideal candidate should possess:

  • A graduate degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or a related technical field of expertise.
  • At least 8 years' experience in building/implementing IT systems architecture/infrastructure security, authentication technologies, server security, network security, database security, application security, communications security, data security, IT security risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, business continuity, physical security, operations security, and cloud secure architecture.
  • Strong working knowledge and at least 8 years' experience in IT security and IT security risk assessment.
  • Understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, and authorization.
  • CISSP, CEH, GIAC, GSEC, or equivalent certification is preferred.
  • Ability to think like a malicious hacker to anticipate and defend one's organization against cybersecurity risks.
  • Experience implementing multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, identity management, or related technologies is a plus.
  • Excellent people management skills, including leadership and collaboration.
  • Good project management skills, including task accomplishment and risk assessment activities.
  • Self-managed, self-starter with good organizational skills.


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