Senior IT Security and Infrastructure Specialist at Assets Microfinance Bank

Assets Microfinance bank is a tier-1 Microfinance bank providing accessible, reliable, and convenient financial services to individuals and businesses across Nigeria. At Assets MFB, we offer value-based banking to Nigerians by creating superior value for all our stakeholders with the most effective and sustainable technologies, holding ourselves to the highest professional and ethical standards, and building an enduring transparent institution.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior IT Security and Infrastructure Specialist

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• You will be instrumental in the design and enforce policies and procedures that protect our organization's computing infrastructure from all forms of security breaches.

In this Role, you will

• Partner with relevant stakeholders to maintain and improve the security posture of Business and IT.
• Develop appropriate measures to understand the effectiveness of securing the bank through the availability of systems.
• Perform monitoring via the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool as well as from external sources (e.g. telephone or email).
• Developing and implementing a comprehensive plan to secure our computing infrastructure.
• Monitoring network usage to ensure compliance with security policies.
• Keeping up to date with developments in IT security standards and threats.
• Performing penetration tests to find any flaws.
• Documenting any security breaches and assessing their damage.
• Educating colleagues about security software and best practices for information security.
• Responsibility of identification, measurement, assessment and reporting of IT risk - Second Line of Defence (2LOD)
• Responsible for the Digital Access Management regarding all used Applications (Such as Core-banking Systems)
• Incident response / support of IT Teams during security related incidents.
• Assessment of Key Risk Indicators to identify and migrate appropriate actions in close collaboration with the Head of IT (1LOD)
• Maintenance of the Information Security Framework and underlying policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.

Ideally, you will Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Relevant IT Security related qualifications, for example MCSE, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCISO or others.
• 5 Years’ experience in identical role, configuration, optimization, and security monitoring of incident handling to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets
• 3 Years’ experience in TCP/IP, HTTP, network access controls, security principles
• Demonstrated knowledge of standards associated with the role, e.g. ISO, CobiT, ITIL.

Required Skills:
This job is perfect for you if you have:

• Solid knowledge of various information security frameworks.
• Ability to educate a non-technical audience about various security measure.
• Must be a creative and analytical thinker
• Must have excellent execution skills and be passionate about achieving excellence
• Commitment to learning and personal development with an ambitious growth mindset
• Communication skills & active listening
• Investigation & diagnostic skills.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single attachment to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.