IT Security Manager Vacancy at GV Alliance Partners

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Security Manager

Location: Lagos
Job Type: 6 Months Contract

Job Description

• The role Leads and continually improve the Enterprise Cyber security posture, provide technical expertise on Enterprise wide Security related issues and work with Security team to define appropriate Frameworks
• Lead investigations and proactively assist Senior Management in defining strategies to protect Corporate data from attack
• Design, document, and deploy secure infrastructure solutions to enhance and evolve the security posture of the business to ensure integrity, availability and confidentiality of all critical enterprise data.
• Provide expertise on security tools, including but not limited to firewalls, Web Application firewalls, IDS/IDP, anti-malware software
• Liaise with stakeholders in respect of operational implementation of security policies and best practices
• Collaborate with the Client Server Team to ensure that technical plans are practical, controls are sustainable, and implementations are managed to minimize risks and adverse impact to servers, workstations and user productivity.
• Lead cybersecurity initiatives in conjunction with Group Cybersecurity team.
• Design and implement security controls to safeguard and monitor events for information systems, enterprise applications and data.
• Lead the implementation of Information Security projects
• Drive internal and external vulnerability assessment, penetration tests engagements and manage results to remediation.
• Respond to escalated security events and drive security incident response processes to ensure timely resolution with minimal disruption.
• Implement the infrastructure, configurations and processes to monitor security related events
• Prevent data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect the enterprise network.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a First Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology/Systems or related discipline preferred
• Possession of a post graduate degree in related IT, Engineering field will be an advantage
• Possession of a professional IT certification (Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP)
• Possession of other Cybersecurity related certification is desirable

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in an area of Security specialisation; with experience working with others
• Experience working in a Large organization and preferably in the Telecommunications industry
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies to include devices such as firewalls, VPN, intrusion/extrusion detection, vulnerability & risk assessment tools, encryption technologies, virus/worm/malware prevention, E-business and web application technologies, Data Loss Prevention, whole disk & device encryption solutions, two-factor authentication, common Windows (desktop & server) platforms,
• Experience with Microsoft, Solaris, Unix, Oracle and MS SQL
• Experience working in telecommunications industry
• Managing network and / or network security
• Knowledge should be current with information security best practices and global trends
• Knowledge of security best practices such as; defense in-depth, least privileges, need-to-know, separation of duties, access controls, encryption
• User account identity, authorization and authentication management.
• Security incident and event management
• Experience in researching new or emerging technologies and processes that may be incorporated as solutions to reoccurring security concern.

Deadline: 27th September, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV, current and expected Salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com , folakemio@gvapartners.com and susano@gvapartners.com  with the Job Title as subject of the mail.