Information Security Responsible

Main mission:

Reporting to the Information System Director, the Information Security Responsible main missions revolve the below areas of responsibility.

• Maintaining information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Conducting regular risk assessments and vulnerability assessments to identify and prioritize security risks and develop appropriate strategies to mitigate those risks.
• Conducting regular internal security audits and permanent controls and preparing for external audits.
• Monitoring systems for irregular behavior and set up preventive measures.
• Conducting security awareness training for employees and other stakeholders to promote a security conscious culture within the organization.
• Working closely with project teams to ensure that security is integrated into all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Identifying current and emerging technology issues including security trends, vulnerabilities, and threats.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Managing security infrastructure software and hardware.
• Developing, executing, and tracking the performance of security measures to protect information, network infrastructure and computer systems.
• Being responsible of IS security interactions with audit firms and suppliers.
• Following the budget allocated to IS security.

Requested profile:

Training:

• Engineer, bachelor’s degree preferably in networking or security of information or equivalent

Professional experience:

• You have an experience of at least 2 years in a similar position.

Technical and/ or specific skills:

• Knowledge of security network devices and other security networking hardware / software tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of information security concepts, standards, practices, including intrusion prevention and detection, device monitoring, log management and event monitoring/ reporting.
• Proven ability to thrive and respond to frequent demands of multiple constituents, both internal and external.

Personal Skills:

• Analytical and technical aptitude with focus on identify and alleviating the root cause of the issue.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Efficiency and customer satisfaction orientation.
• High availability.
• Ability to travel up to other company sites or attend offsite training as needed.
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently while maintaining high standard of quality.
• Fluent Arabic – French and English.