Security Operations Center (Team Lead) at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company

Role Purpose

• Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the SOC, including monitoring security events, analyzing incidents, and responding to threats, and guiding the team in maintaining a robust 24/7 security posture.
• Proactively seeking opportunities to improving SOC processes, performance, and effectiveness

Role Accountabilities
Supervisory & Operational:

• Ensuring the SOC is compliant with relevant security standards and regulations.
• Developing SOC performance management tools
• Identifying potential threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors, and developing use cases for security monitoring.
• Coordinating security data’s collation and analysis from a range of internal and external sources and produce formal security updates.
• Developing regular metrics, dashboards and reports for SOC operations for various stakeholders as approved by the CSO.
• Ensuring compliance to SLA and process adherence to achieve operational objectives.
• Providing security context analysis and daily security updates and rapidly communicate relevant security information, analysis and recommendations to the security management.
• Working with other security teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
• Developing and maintaining performance metrics to track SOC effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Continuously monitoring security events and systems for anomalies and suspicious activity.
• Providing clerical and administrative supports for security operations.
• Scheduling meetings and coordinating appointments.
• Providing firsthand equipment preventive and corrective maintenance
• Performing threat management & threat modelling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.
• Effective communication and escalation during incident response.
• Actively searching for and identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities within the security architecture.
• Any other roles as designated by the SM/CSO.

Financials:

• Ensuring physical security systems are functioning correctly and are fit for purpose, troubleshooting and organizing for corrective action while at the same time mitigating against any risk to the facility.
• Effectively manage and control the security resources and operational logistics.
• Reviewing and processing of all 3rd contract monthly invoices for accountability.

Team Training & Development:

• Leadership, mentorship and performance management for direct reports.
• Working closely and maintain a positive working relationship with internal teams and outsourced partners in the remediation actions of incidents within SLA.
• Assisting security manager to provide in-depth security inductions for new staff upon arrival and additional briefings for all staff upon major shifts in the security context

Health & Safety

• Work safely and take responsibility for keeping self and colleagues free from harm.
• Report all incidents and hazards promptly.
• Inform, train and equip security personnel to carry out their work safely.
• Ensure prompt and accurate reporting and investigation of all workplace incidents and injuries.
• Assess all hazards promptly and ensure they are managed.
• Comply with Quality Management System / Operational Health & System requirements including objectives and applicable regulations relating to assigned jobs.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in science or security related discipline.
• Relevant Professional security certification - added advantage
• Minimum of 5-7 years relevant experience.

Skills & Competencies:

• Good knowledge and understanding of security systems and management.
• Ability to pay attention to details and to anticipate security issues from nuances within and outside the business.
• Technical Security competency.
• Emotional maturity to understand impact and sensitivity of security issues.
• Possess good communication, interpersonal and networking skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Display good supervisory, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Exhibit proficiency in the use of MS Office tools.