Job Description
Role Purpose
- Responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the Physical Security Operations Center (P 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 P-SOC processes, performance, and effectiveness.
Role Accountabilities
Supervisory and Operational:
- Ensuring the P-SOC is compliant with relevant security standards and regulations.
- Developing P-SOC performance management tools.
- Monitoring and Analyzing Video Surveillance and Telemetry Fields.
- 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.
- Working with other security teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
- Developing regular metrics, dashboards and reports for P-SOC operations for various stakeholders as approved by Enterprise Security Manager or 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 P-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.
- Performing all security administrative functions.
- Any other roles as designated by the ESM/CSO.
Financial:
- 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 and 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 and 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in science or security related discipline.
- Relevant Professional security certification -Added advantage
- Minimum of three (3) years relevant experience.
Skills Compentencies:
Technical 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.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Customer Centricity: Demonstrates responsiveness to the security needs of internal stakeholders by providing timely, accurate and relevant security information, support and recommendations.
- Risk Management: Identifies, assesses and proactively addresses security threats, vulnerabilities and operational risks to protect people, assets and business operations.
- People Leadership: Provides direction, coaching and support to security personnel, promotes accountability and collaboration, and enables theteam to achieve operational and security objectives.
- Entrepreneurship: Takes initiative to improve P-SOC processes, strengthen security effectiveness and identify opportunities to optimise resources, systems and operational outcomes.
- Organizational Learning: Continuously builds and shares security knowledge, learns from incidents and emerging threats, and uses insights to strengthen security practices and team capability.
- Change Management: Adapts to evolving security threats, technologies, processes and operational requirements while supporting the effective implementation of security improvements.