Security Operations Center - Team Lead at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC)

Ikeja Electric is one of the largest power distribution companies in Nigeria, committed to delivering reliable and efficient electricity services to our customers. With a strong focus on innovation and sustainability, we aim to transform the energy landscape in Nigeria and contribute to the country's economic development. Our mission is to provide exceptional service while ensuring the safety and well-being of our employees and customers.

At Ikeja Electric, we don’t just power homes and businesses – we power careers. As a leading energy provider, we are committed to fostering a culture that champions integrity, innovation, and excellence. Our team is the heartbeat of our success, and we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and creating a workplace where everyone can shine.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Security Operations Center-Team Lead

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the SOC, including monitoring security events, analyzing incidents, and responding to threats, and guiding the team in maintaining a robust 24/7 security posture.
• Proactively seeking opportunities to improving SOC processes, performance, and effectiveness

Role Accountabilities
Supervisory & Operational:

• Ensuring the SOC is compliant with relevant security standards and regulations.
• Developing SOC performance management tools
• Identifying potential threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors, and developing use cases for security monitoring.
• Coordinating security data’s collation and analysis from a range of internal and external sources and produce formal security updates.
• Developing regular metrics, dashboards and reports for SOC operations for various stakeholders as approved by the CSO.
• Ensuring compliance to SLA and process adherence to achieve operational objectives.
• Providing security context analysis and daily security updates and rapidly communicate relevant security information, analysis and recommendations to the security management.
• Working with other security teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
• Developing and maintaining performance metrics to track SOC effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Continuously monitoring security events and systems for anomalies and suspicious activity.
• Providing clerical and administrative supports for security operations.
• Scheduling meetings and coordinating appointments.
• Providing firsthand equipment preventive and corrective maintenance
• Performing threat management & threat modelling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.
• Effective communication and escalation during incident response.
• Actively searching for and identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities within the security architecture.
• Any other roles as designated by the SM/CSO.

Financials:

• Ensuring physical security systems are functioning correctly and are fit for purpose, troubleshooting and organizing for corrective action while at the same time mitigating against any risk to the facility.
• Effectively manage and control the security resources and operational logistics.
• Reviewing and processing of all 3rd contract monthly invoices for accountability.

Team Training & Development:

• Leadership, mentorship and performance management for direct reports.
• Working closely and maintain a positive working relationship with internal teams and outsourced partners in the remediation actions of incidents within SLA.
• Assisting security manager to provide in-depth security inductions for new staff upon arrival and additional briefings for all staff upon major shifts in the security context

Health & Safety

• Work safely and take responsibility for keeping self and colleagues free from harm.
• Report all incidents and hazards promptly.
• Inform, train and equip security personnel to carry out their work safely.
• Ensure prompt and accurate reporting and investigation of all workplace incidents and injuries.
• Assess all hazards promptly and ensure they are managed.
• Comply with Quality Management System / Operational Health & System requirements including objectives and applicable regulations relating to assigned jobs.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in science or security related discipline.
• Relevant Professional security certification - added advantage
• Minimum of 5-7 years relevant experience.

Skills & Competencies:

• Good knowledge and understanding of security systems and management.
• Ability to pay attention to details and to anticipate security issues from nuances within and outside the business.
• Technical Security competency.
• Emotional maturity to understand impact and sensitivity of security issues.
• Possess good communication, interpersonal and networking skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Display good supervisory, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Exhibit proficiency in the use of MS Office tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online