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SENIOR CYBERSECURITY SPECIALIST

Key Job Purpose:

To provide senior-level technical cybersecurity expertise and operational support across the GMA ICT environment, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems, applications, infrastructure, and digital platforms. The role provides advanced cybersecurity operations, threat mitigation, security engineering, and vulnerability management services, acts as a technical escalation point, and ensures alignment with GMA ICT governance frameworks, POPIA, the Cybercrimes Act, and applicable cybersecurity standards.

Key Performance Areas:

• Advanced Cybersecurity Operations & Threat Mitigation
• Security Engineering & Technical Control Implementation
• Vulnerability Management & Penetration Testing Support
• Application, Cloud & Infrastructure Security
• Cybersecurity Incident Response & Investigations
• Security Monitoring, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

KEY PERFORANCE AREAS

Advanced Cybersecurity Operations & Threat Mitigation

• Provide senior-level cybersecurity operational support across networks, systems, cloud platforms, and applications.
• Detect, analyse, and respond to cyber threats, security incidents, and anomalous activity.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex cybersecurity incidents and investigations.
• Support cyber threat intelligence and proactive threat mitigation activities.

Security Engineering & Technical Control Implementation

• Design, implement, and maintain technical security controls aligned to defence-in-depth and Zero Trust principles.
• Configure and manage security technologies including endpoint protection, firewalls, identity security, and monitoring tools.
• Support secure configuration and hardening of infrastructure, cloud services, and enterprise platforms.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to embed security by design.

Vulnerability Management & Penetration Testing Support

• Conduct vulnerability assessments and technical security reviews.
• Analyse penetration testing findings and support remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
• Validate remediation effectiveness and support vulnerability reporting.
• Maintain vulnerability registers and contribute to cybersecurity risk assessments.

Application, Cloud & Infrastructure Security

• Provide specialist security support for applications, integrations, APIs, and cloud services.
• Support secure development, deployment, and configuration practices.
• Assess cloud security posture and support identity and access management controls.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security standards

Cybersecurity Incident Response & Investigations

• Support cybersecurity incident response activities in line with approved procedures.
• Perform technical analysis, log review, and root-cause investigations.
• Support evidence collection and forensic readiness in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and corrective action planning

Security Monitoring, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Support continuous security monitoring and operational reporting.
• Produce technical cybersecurity reports, dashboards, and trend analysis.
• Identify opportunities for improving security posture through tooling, automation, and process improvement.
• Support cybersecurity awareness and capability development initiatives.

INHERENT JOB REQUIREMENTS

Core Competencies (Compulsory)

• Analytical thinking and structured problem-solving in complex cybersecurity environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, cross-team collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents.
• High level of attention to detail, quality orientation, and documentation discipline.
• High ethical standards and integrity.

Technical Competencies:

• Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices.
• Experience with network, endpoint, cloud, and application security.
• Understanding of vulnerability management, SIEM, and threat intelligence.
• Knowledge of identity and access management concepts.
• Knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001, NIST, and related cybersecurity standards.

Professional Skills

• Cybersecurity analysis and technical troubleshooting.
• Incident response and investigation techniques.
• Risk-based security decision-making.
• Technical documentation and reporting
• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
• Relevant cybersecurity certification (e.g. Security+, CEH, SSCP or equivalent)

Ideal:

• Postgraduate qualification in IT or related discipline.
• Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CCSP, cloud security certifications)

Experience

Minimum:

• 5+ years cybersecurity or technical security experience in a medium-to-large ICT environment.
• Hands-on experience in the field

Ideal:

8+ years senior cybersecurity experience in an enterprise environment

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Senior Manager : Railway Systems Integration

Key Job Purpose:

• To lead and manage the system integration function for the Gautrain railway system, ensuring the effective, safe, and compliant integration of all railway subsystems and associated system infrastructure in accordance with the Concession Agreement, applicable legislation, and recognised international systems engineering standards.
• The role is responsible for ensuring the integrated performance of complex, multidisciplinary railway subsystems, including signalling, overhead contact wire and power distribution systems, telecommunications, rolling stock, and related infrastructure, so that these systems operate as a single, coherent, and reliable railway system throughout design, testing, commissioning, handover, and operational phases.
• The incumbent provides system‑level technical leadership and assurance, supporting technical leads and stakeholders to achieve effective system integration in line with EN 50126 and ISO 15288, including the development, management, and oversight of interface matrices, interface registers, interface control documents, system requirements, hazard analyses, and associated integration and assurance artefacts
• The role further entails leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of integrated systems and infrastructure that support the stability, integrity, availability, and efficiency of Gautrain operations, while ensuring compliance with statutory, safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• The role is accountable for managing system integration activities across all applicable project lifecycle stages, from initiation and planning through execution, testing, commissioning, handover, and close‑out, with responsibility for delivery against approved scope, budget, schedule, and performance outcome
• The role also leads the execution and controlling of allocated OPEX and CAPEX budgets, ensures sound financial governance for the function, and leads technology planning, innovation, research, and obsolescence management to support the long‑term sustainability, modernisation, and resilience of the Gautrain system.

Key Outcomes:

• Integrated Railway System Performance for all Gautrain railway subsystems, in compliance with the Concession Agreement, applicable legislation, and recognised systems engineering standards.
• Established System Integration and Interface Management Frameworks ensuring effective coordination, control, and resolution of technical interfaces across multidisciplinary systems throughout the asset and project lifecycle.
• Provision of system‑level technical leadership and assurance in accordance with EN 50126 and ISO 15288, including the development, governance, and acceptance of system integration artefacts
• Lifecycle Integration Delivery through the management system integration activities across all applicable project lifecycle stages
• Ensure compliance with statutory, safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements, and develop standardized technical input to assurance processes to support safe railway operations and infrastructure integrity.
• Design, implement, and maintain integrated systems and infrastructure that support the stability, integrity, availability, and efficiency of Gautrain operations over the short, medium, and long term.

DETAILED ROLE PROFILE OUTLINE

• Provide technical leadership and systems integration support to internal technical leads and external stakeholders, facilitating informed decision‑making, effective integration, and resolution of complex system‑level issues.
• Lead the sytem integration of complex technical systems (e.g., track, OCDS, signalling, rolling stock, telecoms) and managing the integration process from design through testing and commissioning. 
• Develop system integration frameworks that provides technical expertise and guidance to designers using engineering standards, principles and practices to ensure integration within the complex multi-disciplinary projects and  alignment with engineering standards
• Develop and consolidate integrated system and project performance reports, providing accurate, timely, and decision‑ready information to internal governance structures and external stakeholders, including the Concessionaire, Regulators, and relevant authorities.
• Lead and coordinate the review of incident investigation reports, including reports from Boards of Inquiry and other statutory or contractual investigations, ensuring comprehensive systems‑level analysis, clear determination of root causes, and conclusive technical findings.
• Facilitate engagement with external stakeholders (including the Concessionaire, Regulators, independent investigators, and affected parties) during incident reviews and system performance assessments, ensuring alignment, transparency, and effective resolution of system integration and interface‑related issues.
• Derive, validate, and oversee the implementation of corrective and preventive actions arising from incident investigations, ensuring closure of system integration, interface, and assurance gaps, and tracking outcomes through governance and reporting mechanisms.
• Established System Integration and Interface Management Frameworks ensuring effective coordination, control, and resolution of technical interfaces across multidisciplinary systems throughout the asset and project lifecycle.
• Establish, implement, and govern system integration and interface management frameworks to ensure effective coordination, control, and resolution of technical interfaces across all railway subsystems and stakeholder interfaces throughout the asset and project lifecycle.
• Define and oversee interface management strategies across multidisciplinary systems and external stakeholders, ensuring timely identification, coordination, escalation, and resolution of interface and integration issues.
• Provide technical leadership and governance input into interoperability planning, ensuring alignment of subsystem interfaces, operational concepts, and system performance requirements.
• Provide technical input into system acceptance strategies and plans, ensuring that integration, interface, and assurance requirements are addressed and demonstrably satisfied prior to system acceptance and handover.
• Develop and govern integrated system handover processes, ensuring structured, complete, and auditable transfer of integrated systems from project delivery into operations and maintenance environments.
• Develop, maintain, and control interface registers and Interface Control Documents (ICDs), including oversight of interface requirements, change management, and configuration control, and ensuring traceability across system lifecycle stages.
• Provide technical leadership and systems integration support to internal technical leads and external stakeholders, facilitating informed decision‑making, effective integration, and resolution of complex system‑level issues.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight of subsystem design activities, coordinating and aligning internal and external design teams to ensure consistency with system requirements, interface definitions, and integration objectives.
• Establish and implement system safety and assurance processes, including the application of CDM, CSM‑RA, verification and validation (V&V), and system assurance principles, to support safe, compliant, and integrated system delivery.
• Lead and, where required, support the identification, assessment, and management of interface and integration risksincluding the development and monitoring of appropriate mitigation measures across multidisciplinary systems.
• Identify, analyse, and resolve system integration and interface conflicts, providing authoritative technical direction, developing solution options, and supporting risk‑based assurance and decision‑making processes.
• Lifecycle Integration Delivery through the management system integration activities across all applicable project lifecycle stages
• Lead and coordinate system integration inputs across feasibility and option‑analysis phases, ensuring that integration, interface, safety, and whole‑of‑system considerations inform project definition and decision‑making.
• Oversee the development of integrated system and design plans, providing technical direction, supporting quality assurance, and ensuring alignment with system requirements, interface definitions, and approved engineering standards.
• Manage and monitor system integration delivery during project execution, ensuring that projects are implemented within approved scope, schedule, cost, quality, sustainability, and integration requirements.
• Monitor progress against approved deliverables, identifying integration risks and issues, implementing corrective actions, and providing timely reporting to governance structures and stakeholders.
• Provide specialist system integration expertise across Gautrain projects, supporting project teams with technical advice, assurance input, and resolution of system‑level integration and interface challenges throughout the project lifecycle
• Design, implement, and maintain integrated systems and infrastructure that support the stability, integrity, availability, and efficiency of Gautrain operations over the short, medium, and long term.
• Provide system‑level technical oversight of design submittals, including those from outsourced contracts, to ensure compliance with approved standards, technical requirements, codes, and applicable Interdisciplinary Design Review (IDR) and Systems Engineering (SE) processes.
• Oversee and validate testing and commissioning strategies, plans, and submittals, ensuring that activities are compliant with technical requirements, engineering standards, and regulatory obligations, and that integrated system performance is demonstrably achieved.
• Review and support the acceptance of system assurance deliverables, providing integration‑level assurance to confirm that subsystem outputs collectively meet system requirements, safety obligations, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct and coordinate inspections of works and system installations, providing technical input into certification, sign‑off, and handover processes to ensure that integrated systems and infrastructure are complete, compliant, and fit for operational service.
• Ensure compliance of the Concessionaire with statutory, safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements, and develop standardised technical input to assurance processes to support safe railway operations and infrastructure integrity.
• Provide system‑level technical input and oversight to assure the Concessionaire’s compliance with applicable statutory, safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory requirements, including the National Railway Safety Regulator Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, GMA Act, and the Concession Agreement.
• Ensure compliance with approved maintenance standards, specifications, and codes applicable to Gautrain assets, including recognised local and international standards (e.g. Network Rail standards for track, Transnet Track Manual, The Bridge Code, National Building Regulations for stations, and other internationally acceptedspecifications).
• Develop and apply standardised technical inputs to assurance and compliance processes, ensuring consistent, auditable, and defensible system integration and safety assurance across projects and operations.
• Support governance, audit, and regulatory engagements by providing authoritative technical advice, compliance evidence, and integration‑level assurance to demonstrate infrastructure integrity and safe railway operations.
• Lead technology planning, research, innovation, and obsolescence management initiatives to support system modernisation, resilience, and long‑term sustainability of the Gautrain railway system.
• Lead and coordinate technology planning, research, innovation, and obsolescence management initiatives, ensuring the proactive identification, assessment, and implementation of technologies that support the modernisation, resilience, reliability, andlong‑term sustainability of the Gautrain railway system.
• Execute and control allocated OPEX and CAPEX budgets for the system integration function, ensuring sound financial governance, cost control, and efficient utilisation of resources.
• Provide technical and functional input into the development of operational and capital expenditure budgets, ensuring alignment with approved plans, system integration priorities, and organisational objectives.
• Develop, monitor, and control budget forecasts and expenditure for projects and activities within the system integration function, ensuring effective cost management and adherence to approved OPEX and CAPEX allocations.
• Plan and coordinate system integration activities to achieve delivery of approved project outcomes within defined quality, schedule, and cost parameters, in line with governanceand financial control requirements.
• Manage client interface and stakeholders, e.g. Concessionaire, Municipalities, PRASA etc.
• Technical input into tendering process for projects, i.e., costs, specifications, criteria etc. 
• Conduct respective design studies, engineering calculations, design reviews, validations, and approvals. 
• Ensure compliance to specific engineering procedures for project execution, i.e., document control Systems, configuration management. 
• Implement cost controls and evaluation of payment certificates. 

INHERENT JOB REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Minimum NQF 7 level qualifications in industrial engineering or other Engineering disciplines
• Ideal: Bachelors or equivalent in Engineering
• Ideal: Professional registration with ECSA or equivalent
• Driver’s License
• Computer proficiency

Experience

Minimum: (ideal)

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in railway multidisciplinary projects
• Proficient in System engineering knowledge and functional duties to be able to support the representation of the discipline including understanding of ISO 15288.
• Proficient in development, management and tracking of integration related tasks.
• Proficient in system assurance principles and practices in accordance with EN 50126. 
• Knowledgeable in the implementation of processes for the analysis and interpretation of operating and maintenance-based data including FRACAS, FMECA, and RAM Analysis used to monitor the status of asset class and support the development of RAMS requirements and leading indicators.
• Knowledgeable in the oversight, evaluation, and assurance of system integration processes and principles to achieve performance metrics, develop and realize KPI’s for the asset class or systemwide function for reliability, availability and performance requirements consistent with the organizational strategic plan, customer level of service and business objectives
• Knowledgeable and able to deploy the systems engineering process for the asset class or systemwide function engineering discipline including for system integration, requirements management, configuration management, integrated design, logistics management and interface management

Ideal:

• Asset maintenance and management principles
• Multi-disciplinary railway engineering systems
• Knowledge of relevant construction management contracts
• Knowledge and application of relevant international infrastructure design specification and standards

Training

Minimum:

• Project Management
• Railway Infrastructure management systems
• Occupational Health & Safety Act 85 of 1993
• Contract law

Ideal:Contract managementPrinciples of PPP projects

KEY RELATIONSHIP INTERFACES

Internal Relationships (to the GMA Group): 

• GMA CEO  
• GMA MANCO 
• Internal Business Units
• GMA Staff, including but not limited to Executives  

External Relationships (with departments and other key parties): 

• GMA Service Providers and Suppliers 
• GMA Business Partners 
• Gauteng Department of Roads & Transport 
• Regulators or Authorities 
• Concession Company and its entities 
• Rail Safety Regulators

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Specialist: Contracts Management & Economic Development

Key Job Purpose:

• To provide support, guidance and input in the following areas:
• Management of commercial and contractual matters with regards to the Concession Agreement
• Review and drafting of commercial contracts and SLAs, as well as assisting in the application of conditions of contract where applicable
• Lifecycle management of contracts in terms of the Concession Agreement
• Support business development initiatives and revenue enhancement opportunities for the Gautrain Project and the Gautrain Management Agency
• Provide for and manage socio-economic development tracking, monitoring and reporting

DETAILED ROLE PROFILE OUTLINE

Key Activities:

Provide management and support of commercial contracts related to key strategic projects within the GMA and economic development initiatives thereof.

• Providing support and technical input on commercial transactions.
• Understanding of conditions of contracts and providing technical input related to contractual claims.
• Drafting, reviewing and analysis of commercial contracts and SLAs in accordance with good practice.
• Review of commercial and contractual documentation.
• Administrative management and tracking of all contractual change management processes.
• Drafting of contractual documentation relating the change management processes as well as managing the different project and operational variations derived from the Concession Agreement.
• Administrative management and tracking of all commercial & contracts correspondence including timeous contractual responses in line with the Concession Agreement.
• Follow up on actions relating to the contractual close out of deliverables including the drafting of contractual responses to correspondence.
• Review of various types of project and contract documents including concession agreements, project reports, legal agreements, financing documents, etc. and advise accordingly.
• Review of the contractual agreements to provide guidance and advice to the GMA.
• Advising in procurement for service contracts between the GMA and the private sectors/service providers.
• Providing support in the execution of contractual tasks associated with the commercial function.
• Providing support in managing key project related deliverables and transactions.
• Provide support in the management of budget requirements for projects insofar as commercial inputs are concerned.
• Participate in and provide support in procurement processes as and when required.
• Monitoring, reporting and providing oversight on socio economic development deliverables and monitoring thereof.

To provide support to the Commercial and Contracts team on Commercial related issues and matters relating to continuous commercial business development needs of the GMA.

• Providing support in the development of feasibility studies/business case for the various projects undertaken by the GMA.
• Assisting and investigating specific contract documents and implications for Gautrain Management Agency.
• Assist in due diligence review of various types of project documents including concession agreements, financing documents, term sheets, etc.
• Undertaking relevant research tasks as needed including market intelligence data gathering/analysis, cost of capital evaluation, assistance with tasks from the respective functions/teams as may be relevant.
• Provide support and input into the negotiation of transactions and strategic inputs into commercial revenue enhancements for Gautrain Management Agency.
• Review of key documents and correspondence submitted by the Concessionaire related to operational matters for risk and commercial implications arising from the Concession Agreement.
• Validation of invoices and payments as and when required.
• Management of economic development deliverables in line with the Concession Agreement requirements; and
• Providing input and advise in various project deliverables and managing outcomes thereof.

INHERENT JOB REQUIREMENTS

Managerial and Technical Competencies:

• Commercial contract drafting
• Project management skills
• Knowledge and understanding of FIDIC suite conditions of contract
• Performing risk, value management and cost control
• Understanding and experience in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and concession agreements
• Understanding of principles of socio-economic development planning
• Due diligence development skills
• Ability to prepare business plans
• Ability to prepare project payment summaries for projects
• Planning and organizational skills
• Proven administrative, written and verbal communications
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Business writing skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to coordinate and manage projects
• Must be proficient in MS Word and MS Excel

Generic Competencies:

• Time management skills  
• Understanding of project finances and budget management
• Must possess emotional intelligence and demonstrate ability of diversity management.
• Ability to work in a team
• Computer skills
• Presentation techniques

Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent qualification in commerce, legal or quantity surveying

Ideal:

• B Com (Finance); BSc Quantity Surveying, BA Law

Experience:

• 3 years’ experience in the contracts management, review and drafting of commercial agreements, project coordination and procurement, advising on PPP contracts

Ideal:

• Proven experience in management of PPP contracts, understanding of contract management and economic development objectives
• Understanding of conditions of contract and project delivery

Knowledge:

• Commercial contracts drafting
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the management of large infrastructure project contracts
• Knowledge and understanding of PPP’s
• Understanding of legal and contractual terminology
• Understanding of economic development and planning objectives

Internal Relationships (to the GMA):

• SM: Commercial & Contracts
• EM: Commercial & Contracts

External Relationships (with departments and other key parties):

• Concessionaire
• External Stakeholders

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