Job Openings at George Houston Resources Limited

George Houston is currently seeking to recruit experienced Chief Security Officer for our client in the Agricultural and Real Estate company with branches in Benin and Lagos, Nigeria.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement security initiatives, standards, policies, procedures for the plant.
• Develop security Standard Operating Policies and procedures for the factory and residences.
• Develop network access and monitoring policies, risk management assessments, emergency procedures and incident responses.
• Drive compliance of security policies, procedures and best practices and ensure strict adherence across the organization.
• Co-ordinate, plan and supervise implementation of site security audits and assessment.
• Establish and maintain an effective intelligence and security reporting system.
• Oversee security operatives within the plant and its environment.
• Support in the recruitment and training of security personnel ensuring proper understanding of security and safety processes for accurately responding to emergencies.
• Periodically recommend training and coordinate onsite training sessions and security awareness for employees/contractors.
• Set up process to carry out video surveillance, investigate security breaches and implement disciplinary procedures.
• Implement journey management measures including escorts rules, procedures and movement for expatriates and staff.
• Collaborate with the weighbridge team on truck movements within and outside the factory, assigning security team to search trucks for objects that add to truck tonnage and mass.
• Collaborate and maintain relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and community security team & agents.
• Establish and maintain cordial relationship and leverage on security networks for obtaining timely information and due diligence as well as developing pro-active security solutions to prevent the company from deliberate and/avoidable security mishaps.
• Monitor and review security and compliance gaps at the operational area/site and develop strategies to address these gaps.
• Perform routine review of all routes to and from the operational area including hotel accommodation and or airport to identify safe routes and checkpoints and devise options for rerouting in peak traffic or vulnerable states.
• Plan and coordinate security operations for events in the operational area ensuring the safety of all stakeholders.
• Set up an immediate response procedure to promptly address emergency security and safety situations.
• Investigate suspected and actual security breaches and recommend corrective actions including liaising with Police authorities.
• Prepare periodic reports for management and all stakeholders on security status and provide real time information for timely and accurate threat assessments.
• Work closely with corporate executives, business managers, audit, and legal counsel to understand corporate requirements related to security and regulatory compliance, and to map those requirements to current security projects.
• Provide weekly security reports/briefing to the CEO
• Perform other functions as required.

QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Business-related field.
• Minimum of 7 years similar experience in a Manufacturing or Farming industry.
• A professional security certificate is an added advantage.

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George Houston is currently seeking to recruit vibrant and suitable Application Security Devops for her client a leading Tech company Located on the Island, Lagos.

  JOB DUTIES/DESCRIPTION

• Provide hands-on technical expertise and support in general DevOps tasks.
• Responsible for defining and implementing the build, deployment and monitoring standards for this customer;
• A part of Agile development teams to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in a cloud environment;
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology;
• Create scripts and/or templates to automate and/or bootstrap infrastructure provisioning and management tasks;
• Working closely with our development team to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system;
• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution;
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure;
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks;
• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems;
• Organize the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability, acting proactively;
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools; Oversee the company's security, backup, and redundancy strategies;
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers
• Mentor junior infra engineers, evangelize good security habits and secure development practices;

Requirements:

• must be able to work in a specific environment: Jenkins, Docker, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, Scripting YAML, SAST (Static Application Security Testing), DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
• Ability to work in an open team environment;
• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS;
• Security first mindset;
• Demonstrated experience with secure development, coding, engineering practices;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing strategies;
• Experience with systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging;
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, from code commits to production;
• Have effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and clients;
• Develop, document, and implement CI/CD strategy for management of Infrastructure as Code IaC baseline;
• Solid experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux based environments;
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another related area;
• Excellent knowledge of networking technologies, particularly with OSI network layers and TCP/IP;
• Strong scripting skills, including shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc;
• Good experience in administering and performance tuning of application stacks, such as Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX, and others.

 QUALIFICATION /REQUIRMENTS 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 2-3 years experience
• must be able to work in a specific environment: Jenkins, Docker, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, Scripting YAML, SAST (Static Application Security Testing), DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
• Ability to work in an open team environment;
• Experience deploying and monitoring web applications in AWS;
• Security first mindset;
• Demonstrated experience with secure development, coding, engineering practices;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing strategies;
• Experience with systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging;
• Experience with fully automating CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, from code commits to production;
• Have effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and clients;
• Develop, document, and implement CI/CD strategy for management of Infrastructure as Code IaC baseline;
• Solid experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux based environments;
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another related area;
• Excellent knowledge of networking technologies, particularly with OSI network layers and TCP/IP;
• Strong scripting skills, including shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Go, Groovy, Helm, etc;
• Good experience in administering and performance tuning of application stacks, such as Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX, and others.