IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain - colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Associate Director, IT Security Operations
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Responsiblities
Geographical Scope:
Deliver IT services across Nigeria, Group entities, SSA, and MENA regions.
Provide leadership and direction for the IT security team in all IHS entities in line with best practice like ISO27001
Functional Management:
Security architecture: Planning, buying, and rolling out security hardware and software, and making sure IT and network infrastructure is designed with best security practices in mind
Security operations: Real-time analysis of immediate threats, and triage when something goes wrong
Cyber-risk and cyber intelligence: Keeping abreast of developing security threats, and helping the board understand potential security problems that might arise from acquisitions or other big business moves
Data loss and fraud prevention: Making sure internal staff doesn't misuse or steal data
Identity and access management: Ensuring that only authorized people have access to restricted data and systems
Program management: Keeping ahead of security needs by implementing programs or projects that mitigate risks — regular system patches, for instance
Investigations and forensics: Determining what went wrong in a breach, dealing with those responsible if they're internal, and planning to avoid repeats of the same crisis
Governance: Making sure all the above initiatives run smoothly and get the funding they need — and that corporate leadership understands their importance.
Strategic Planning & Execution:
Yearly assess “AS IS” situation, define and update the “Future State Blueprint” and related Technology roadmap of enhancements and projects, following technology trends.
Identify potential threats to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s systems and network.
Identify and architect appropriate security technologies based on risks, policies and architecture.
Support IT Architecture Review process and evaluate associated security of the proposed architectures.
Lead efforts to establishing credible security awareness throughout IHS Nigeria
Create and establish processes around vulnerability management
Keep up with industry trends in cyber security
Provide leadership and direction and establish baselines in ensuring IT security is part of the procurement process for all applications
Drive purchase of security solutions, with Procurement to combat IT security risk
Perform other functions as assigned by the IT Director or the CIO.
Qualifications
A Bachelor's or Advanced Degree in Computer Science or any related discipline.
Professional certification: CISA, ISO27001, CISSP, CISM, CEH
Minimum 9 years of relevant experience in Information Security, IT Control and IT Risk.
Hands-on experience in security systems review, Acunetix, windows server, Linux server, SIEM, Nipper, Nessus
Demonstrable experience with change management, user access management, segregation of duties matrix, and incident response.
Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols.
Bilingual is a plus; English, French
Willing to travel
Experienced enough to potentially act as Deputy Global IT Director. This means that knowledge of Infrastructure, Network, Service and On-site support is a plus.