IT Security Engineer at HR-EX Consulting

HR-EX Consulting partners with small businesses looking for affordable HR professional advisory and services. In practice, we operate as an outsourced HR department and provide professional HR services for small businesses for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Security Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

• An exciting opportunity exists for a highly skilled IT security engineer to join a dynamic project team.

Responsibilities

• 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 assessment, penetration test engagements and manage results to 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 the 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.
• Ensure conformance to Cybersecurity Blueprint/Roadmap
• Provide inputs to 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 5 years experience in an area of Security specialization with experience working with others
• Experience working in a large organization preferably in the telecommunications industry
• Strong background as an Engineer/Architect in application security infrastructure and various network technologies including 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 the 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.