IT Security Engineer
Lagos • Full Time
Salary Range: NGN 400,000 – 600,000
About the Job
Company Description
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 formulation and implementation expertise and business operation improvement skills. Our Value Proposition GVA’s unique value proposition is our familiarity with both global and local business environment and depth of expertise of our consultants. Our consultants have a combined industry experience of over 18 years in various roles such as project managers, business analyst, product developers, strategy consultants and industry research analyst in large multinational firms. We typically resource all engagements with personnel that have gained direct and related experience from similar assignments.
Job Summary
An exciting opportunity exists for a highly skilled IT security engineer to join a dynamic project team.
Min Qualification: Degree
Experience Level: Senior level
Experience Length: 5 years
Language Requirement: English
Working Hours: Full Time – 8 to 5
Applicant Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Carry out procedural system maintenance on all IT systems.
- Ensure all networks, including but not limited to LAN, MAN, WAN, GAN, meet the demand of the company.
- Troubleshoot system and network problems, diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults and replacing parts as required.
- Maintain all IT system workflows.
- Maintain and update all IT Networks.
- Maintain and contribute to the development of IT networks.
- Participate actively in developing, planning and implementing advanced IT systems.
- Other duties as assigned.
Function:
- Lead cybersecurity initiatives in conjunction with the 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 assessments, penetration testing engagements and manage results through remediation.
- Respond to escalated security events and drive security incident response processes to ensure timely resolution with minimal disruption.
- 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.
- 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.
Supervisory/Managerial responsibilities:
- Ensure conformance to Cybersecurity Blueprint/Roadmap
- Provide input to the company strategic plan on all initiatives to ensure that Security gaps/vulnerabilities are identified & closed
- Establish and ensure credibility through strong relationships, value-add to operations and professionalism
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Requirements:
- • Minimum of 5 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
Training:
- Penetration Testing
- Vulnerability lifecycle management
- Advanced Security Incidence Reponse
- Systems Auditing,, Database Security, Firewall Design, Intrusion detection system administration Implementation
- Security enforcement on systems level, security audit and vulnerability management
- Telecommunications, Network, wireless & Internet Security
Work Mode: Immediate Start
Remuneration: NGN 400,000 – 600,000 Monthly
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
Victoria Island, Lagos
Type
Privately Held
Specialties
Consulting, Technology Recruitment, Managed Services, and Training
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