IT Security Officer – Umeme
Job Title: IT Security Officer
Organization: Umeme
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: IT Security Administrator
About US:
Umeme is a public company cross listed on both the Uganda Securities Exchange and the Nairobi Securities Exchange with over 6,483 shareholders, including high value international institutional investors. Umeme operates under a concession with a structural monopoly in the distribution of electricity across Uganda, distributing 99% of electricity in Uganda through a single buyer model.
Job Summary: The IT Security Officer will implement security policies, principles, and standards. He/she works with the rest of the ICT Team to select and deploy technical controls to meet specific security requirements, and implements processes and standards to ensure that security configurations are maintained.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on IT process initiatives to ensure that security solutions are delivered in an effective and efficient manner.
- Work with infrastructure team members to identify, select, and implement technical controls.
- Assist IT staff in the resolution of reported security incidents.
- Monitor daily or weekly reports and security logs for unusual events.
- Assist in the development of security processes and procedures and support service-level agreements (SLAs) to ensure that security controls are managed and maintained.
- Research, evaluate, recommend and plan the implementation of new or updated information security technologies.
- Ensure that all new implementations of ICT solutions are compliant with the organization’s security requirements; ensuring best practice is always followed.
- Monitor and ensure that appropriate levels of security exist in the following: PC’s, client server, LAN, WAN, broadband networks, web environments, firewalls, IP telephony, disaster recovery and applications, etc.
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data at rest or while in transit between end point devices, servers and other systems including any data at rest on hosted, third party systems where ICT have been involved.
- Work with the ICT team to ensure that Issues identified during vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and security audits are resolved.
- Review logs generated from information-security-related hardware and software and send summaries to the supervisor for review
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Umeme IT Security Officer job vacancy must hold a Degree in IT, Computer Science or any other relevant discipline
- At least two years of ICT Security management experience, including
- One year of technical experience.
- Planning and Organizational skills
- High integrity and honest
- Accuracy
- Problem solving and good judgment skills
- Analytical skills
- Good communication skills both written and spoken
- Positive attitude
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should first fill out their application forms online, Click Here and thereafter send their updated CVs to: recruit.hr@umeme.co.ug.
Deadline: 15th February 2019 by 5:00 PM
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