Group Information Security Operations Centre Senior Manager at MTN

Job description

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The Senior Manager Group Information Security Operations Centre is responsible for the entire process of developing and maintaining the capability to manage Security Operations and incidents within MTN so that exposure can be contained and recovery achieved within a specified time objective. The focus of this role is to embed security measures across the OpCo’s, to drive a culture of proactive threat identification and incident management.

The role will be accountable to achieve the following to objectives:

• Management of the SOC will be a 24/7 operational. The Senior Manager should ensure operational support at all times;
• Works with MTN business risk management, IT and other risk management/assurance functions to identify security requirements, security architecture and security GRC for both MTN Group and the OpCos, using various methods such as risk and business impact assessments;
• Reports to management concerning residual risk, vulnerabilities and other security exposures, including misuse of information assets and noncompliance;
• Researches and assesses new threats, security alerts and indicators of compromise and recommends appropriate actions;
• Ensure and develop holistic Security Operations Centre KPI’s and manage achievement thereof;
• Lead the conduct of security control and vulnerability assessments to identify weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of existing controls, and recommends remedial action;
• Directly responsible for facilitating information security risk assessments in OPCOs to ensure threats are managed;
• Identify emerging information security trends in the telecom industry and engage the MTN stakeholders to ensure that threats are managed;
• Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends;
• Upgrades security systems by monitoring security environment; identifying security gaps; evaluating and implementing enhancements;
• Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends;
• Establish and drive security operations specific critical incident training programmes across all OPCOs;
• Liaise with and manage external entities (sector, law enforcement) to share intelligence and escalate incidents.

Role requirements

You must have:

• A Bachelor's Degree in engineering/information technology
• Post graduate/professional qualification such as a Masters degree

You must have the following experience:

• 10-12 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology (specifically security)
• 2-3 years of experience at the Senior Management level in the telecom industry
• 2-3 years working experience in managing information security in a large organisation
• Experience in managing and implementing large scale information security projects
• Experience working in Africa and Middle East and have a grasp of political, social, infrastructure and integrity challenges
• Advanced working understanding of the information technology environment of a telecom company
• Developing and managing a Security Operations Centre