Head, Security Operations Officer at Unified Payment Services Limited

Posted on Mon 02nd Mar, 2026 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

Unified Payment Services Limited 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
23rd March, 2026.

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