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About the role

Protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the resort’s information assets — guest data, payment systems, OT (HVAC/BMS/CCTV) and corporate IT — via proactive defence, monitoring and response.

Key duties & responsibilities

  • Manage SIEM, EDR, firewall, VPN and email security.
  • Conduct vulnerability scans and quarterly penetration tests.
  • Lead incident response and forensics; maintain IR playbooks.
  • Maintain PCI-DSS compliance for payment systems.
  • Implement NDPA 2023 / NDPR controls; support DPO/DPCO.
  • Manage IAM, MFA and privileged access.
  • Run security-awareness training and phishing simulations.
  • Coordinate cyber drills and tabletop exercises.
  • Liaise with NITDA, NDPC and CERT.ng on incidents.

What you'll need

  • B.Sc. in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT or related from an NUC-accredited university.
  • Minimum 5 years in cybersecurity / SOC, ideally including hospitality, banking or telco.
  • CISSP, CEH, CompTIA Security+, ISO 27001 LI/LA; PCI-DSS ISA; DPCO accreditation.

Technical skills

SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel), EDR (CrowdStrike, Defender), firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto), Kali / Burp, scripting (Python / PowerShell).

Soft skills

Vigilance, calm under incident, analytical rigour, communication of technical risk to business, ethical mindset.

Certifications

  • CISSP, CEH, CompTIA Security+, ISO 27001 LI/LA; PCI-DSS ISA; DPCO accreditation.

Key performance indicators

  • Mean time to detect / respond within SLAs.
  • PCI-DSS compliance maintained 100%.
  • Critical vulnerabilities closed within 30 days ≥ 95%.
  • Phishing-simulation failure rate < 5%.
  • Zero unreported breaches.

Working conditions

Office-based with on-call rotation for incident response.

Career path

Cybersecurity Manager → CISO.

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