Senior Specialist, Risk & Security Monitoring at IHS Towers

Posted on Thu 18th Jan, 2024 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

IHS Towers is one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count and is the only towerco solely focused on emerging markets. The Company has more than 40,000 towers across its 11 markets, including Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia. For more information, please visit: www.ihstowers.com 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Risk & Security Monitoring

Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full-Time
Department: IT

Job Description

  • Ensure intelligent reporting and fine-tuning of file integrity monitor, Network Access Control (NAC), firewall and Security Operations Centre (SOC) rules.  
  • Create scenario-based risk intelligent rules. 
  • Ensure that sufficient trails are maintained, retained and retrievable for forensic analysis and investigation. 
  • Implement logging policies across different layers of systems and across enterprise platforms. 
  • Create intelligent alerting based on risk scenarios. 
  • Implement and manage log retention policy across multiple platform and systems. 
  • Review logs/ alerts (closed-opened) and reports of all in-place security and infrastructural devices. 
  • Direct scheduling and ad-hoc security and compliance reporting. 
  • Monitor team members for alerts tracking.   
  • Network with other internal organizations to ensure coordination of compliance efforts. 
  • Participate in the creation of enterprise security policies, standards, and baselines. 
  • Provide support for the monitoring team as well as security incident and events management solution logging requirements and integration. 
  • Keep abreast of new/revised or improved security solutions, processes and development of new threats and attack vectors. 
  • Keep abreast of SOC regulatory standards. 
  • Participate in the deployment of tested security patches and updates. 
  • Conduct security tool selection, pilot and implementation. 
  • Maintain SOC awareness program. 
  • Communicate SOC action plans and security bulletins. 
  • Identify, investigate and resolve security breaches detected by installed security solutions. 
  • Make suggestions to implement projects that increase security and ensure the highest quality of service 
  • Perform other functions as assigned by the Senior Manager, IT Security Operations. 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's and/or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or any related disciplines. 
  • +7 years’ relevant experience in IS, with at least 4 years in security monitoring and solutions deployment. 
  • Hands-on experience in security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management, content filtering, etc. 
  • Demonstrable experience with network security and networking technologies as well with systems, security, and network monitoring tools. 
  • Demonstrable familiarity with web-related technologies (web applications, web services, service-oriented architectures), and network/ web-related protocols. 
  • Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols 
  • Problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure. 

Requirements:
Functional: 

  • IT Operations 
  • Incident Management 
  • Security Assessments 
  • Security Monitoring & Reporting 
  • Vulnerability Lifecycle Management 
  • Continuity & Disaster Recovery 
  • Business Communication 
  • Security Solutions Deployment  

Behavioral: 

  • Collaboration & Teamwork 
  • Be Bold 
  • Customer Focus 
  • Innovation 
  • Integrity

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