IT Security Specialist

The Security Compliance department identifies and manages the key Information Security risks.

Your position

Responsibilities

Your Key responsibilities are as follows

• Create and review information security policies
• Evaluate and implement information security standards and procedures
• Contribute to the planning of and realization of key structuring security projects
• Assist in all aspects of security operations, including on-call duties
• Provide guidance, recommendation, and education with regard to information system security
• Develop and maintain proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in vulnerabilities and their exploitation
• Identify, report, and assist operations in the resolution of security findings and non-compliances
• Ensure continuous improvements of security logging, monitoring and reporting (LMR), preventive and detective strategies
• Perform recurring vulnerability assessment and remediation activities

Technical skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in an information technology discipline or equivalent experience
• Network Monitoring and performance
• Firewalls Management, set up and support Through CSM
• Firewall security policies analysis and implementation
• OS /DB security reviews

Advantage:

• Knowledge of IT Audit and testing procedures
• Good level of knowledge of PCI/PA-DSS , ISO 27001 and SOX — 52–109 regulation
• Good level of knowledge of ITIL, COBIT5 frameworks
• Comfort with consulting and process improvement approach
• Certifications such as CISA , CISSP or CRISK

Vocational skills :

• Must be fluent in French and English
• Result-driven
• Sense of communication, of dialogue and empathy with several interlocutors (technical, functional, managerial)
• Rigor, structuring, synthesis.
• Autonomy, capacity to report and organize your work

Want to join us?

We cultivate the start up spirit and look for innovation and excellence. We welcome our new employees and ensure their integration into our environment.

Go for it!

Get in touch with us by sending your CV and cover letter with the following reference SECURITY : fatou@microcred.org

Why Microcred ?

Microcred, a company with a cause

We envision a world where financial services are simple and accessible. We work every day to create opportunities for our clients.

By joining Microcred team, you are integrated into a team that is dedicated 100 % to its clients!

Created in 2005, Microcred is one of the most innovative Entrepreneurial Groups in Financial Inclusion, with 8 banks and Financial Institutions in Africa and China.

Today the Group is disbursing more than EUR 300 million to 400,000 clients.

Microcred’s strategy is twofold:

• a geographic expansion, with at least 10 new markets in Africa and Asia in the coming 3 to 4 years (both organically and inorganically);
• a product diversification, with a transition from a pure micro-finance provider to a leading emerging markets financial services’ provider for the traditionally under-banked.