IT Systems Security Superintendent

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Description :

For our client, an inter­na­tio­nal mining opera­tor in West Africa, we are looking for an expe­rien­ced and quali­fied IT Systems Security Superintendent.

Functional responsibilities :

• Safeguarding infor­ma­tion system assets by iden­ti­fying and solving poten­tial and actual secu­rity threats/problems, to protect the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of the company data.
• Improving and main­tai­ning our IT secu­rity opera­tions and processes.
• Promoting IT secu­rity aware­ness across the organization.
• Participating in imple­men­ting solu­tions for protec­ting the confi­den­tia­lity, inte­grity and avai­la­bi­lity of our data.
• Supporting, main­tai­ning and trou­ble­shoo­ting network secu­rity at all branches.
• Responding to IT secu­rity events across the mine.
• Identifying, reme­dia­ting and miti­ga­ting IT secu­rity vulnerabilities.
• Conducting risk assess­ment using a threat model­ling method.
• Performing IT audits, working with inter­nal and exter­nal auditors.

Required experience and qualifications :

• Professional Qualification/Experience RequiredDegree level and/or 5 years+.
• Broad unders­tan­ding of opera­ting systems, network secu­rity, soft­ware secu­rity and encryp­tion algo­rithms and technologies.
• Experience and soft skills : 
  • Information and system secu­rity design/implementation
  • Project mana­ge­ment skills
  • 3rd party/Supplier management
  • System Administration
  • Network Security
  • Problem Solving
  • Information Security Policies
  • Informing Others
  • Process Improvement
  • Network Troubleshooting
  • Firewall Administration
  • Network Protocols
• IT Technologies to include : Cisco/Dell IOS detai­led unders­tan­ding at layer 2, 3 & 7, Cisco, Fortinet and Sophos Firewalling, MacAfee Antivirus (EPO), Orion SIEM.