First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. The Bank has been named "The Best Bank Brand in Nigeria” four times in a row - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - by the globally renowned "The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; and "Most Innovative Bank in Africa” in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2014. FirstBank’s brand purpose is to always put its customers, partners and all stakeholders at the heart of its business, even as it is poised to standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across Sub Saharan Africa, in consonance with its brand vision "To be the partner of first choice in building your future”. Our brand promise is to always deliver the ultimate "gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on FirstBank’s inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position our customers first in every respect.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Participate in planning & design of infrastructure security architecture for the Group and subsidiaries.
- Supervises and evaluates network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency.
- Responsible for day-to-day management, support and monitoring of technology security in order to protect
- technology resources and enterprise data in accordance with strategic business objectives, institutional regulations and laws.
- Manages network security threats, provides advice on mitigating the security risk as well as perform configuration changes and troubleshooting of network security devices across the Group and subsidiaries. Also addresses customer issues, and manages customer interaction throughout the issue resolution process.
- Develop planning of executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of network equipment within the Group and subsidiaries.
- Develop setting up of network policies and procedures around all network Devices across the Group and subsidiaries which includes: Firewalls, Routers and Switches as well as establishing Network connections for all devices.
- Plan the creation of infrastructure security policies, standards, baselines, guidelines & procedures.
- Lead the implementation of new network /system security solutions across the Group and subsidiaries.
- Plan, Design & Execution of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and security audits.
- Manage up to date knowledge of ISOD security industry.
- Manage & Research of new/revised or improved security solutions, processes and development of new threat and attack vectors across the Group and subsidiaries.
- Develop, Manage & Perform enhancement of existing network/system security solutions in accordance with standard best operating procedures within the Group and subsidiaries.
- Manage and Maintain up-to-date baselines for the secure configuration & operation of all in-place network / system security devices.
- Manage and Maintain operational configurations of all in-place network / system security solutions as per established baselines across the Group and subsidiaries.
- Design and deploy secured configurations for all network & system resources and appliances (Routers, Switches, Firewall, Wireless access points, Sniffers, Windows, AIX etc.).
- Manage security patches and updates to the IOS/firmware, OS on network /system resources/appliances.
- Develop, Plan and Implement all network and operating system security settings in line with develop approved
- policies across the Group and subsidiaries.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Unit Head, Security Architecture & Engineering or Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
- Develop and Plan principles and policies in the information security hand book.
Job Requirements:
Education
- Minimum Education: First Degree in computer science/Engineering, Higher Degrees
- At least three Relevant Professional Certifications as appropriate
Experience
- Minimum experience – Ten (10) years relevant working experience and 3 year working experience at supervisory level
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