Head Security Operations Officer at Unified Payments Services Limited

Unified Payment is a fast-leading financial technology company that provides seamless, secure, and efficient digital payment solutions. We enable businesses and individuals to send, receive, and manage payments across multiple channels through a single, integrated platform, driving financial inclusion, operational efficiency, and innovation in the digital payments ecosystem.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head Security Operations Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objectives

• Delivers information security risk report and certification
• Ensure the business comply with local and international certification and standards
• Communicate and report risk metric to management
• Work with relevant stakeholders in conducting project risk appraisal
• Develop competent officers to take on managerial responsibilities.
• Review operations approval request
• Ensure approvals protect business assets

Duties & / Responsibilities

• Deliver information security risk assessment of projects, new technologies, applications, service providers, IT changes and new businesses
• Provide subject matters expertise on enterprise security architecture
• Participate in the selection of technology and tools for business operations
• Research applicable business technology for adoption for business improvement
• Responsible for establishing the risk culture
• Ensure risks are managed within the risk appetite of the business
• Ensure risk management processes are properly documented and adequate.
• Ensure all relevant personnel are aware of their risk responsibilities
• Ensure continuous compliance with all PCI requirements
• Ensure continuous compliance with VISA CVP requirements
• Ensure continuous compliance with MasterCard GVCP requirements
• Ensure continuous compliance with CUP PSP requirements.

Requirements

• Education Bachelor’s Degree in information security, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• General Experience: Candidates should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in managing information security operations or incident response within complex organizations, business and financial operations, IT project operations and management.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in network and systems security, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), EDR (Endpoint Detection Response), malware analysis, and familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF. Candidates should also have experience with various operating systems (e.g., Unix/Linux, Windows) and TCP/IP networking.

Application Closing Date
20th April, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should their CV to: mercy.joseph@up-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.