Bharti Airtel Limited Job Opportunties in Nigeria March 2016

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 331 million customers across its operations at the end of June 2015.
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Job Title: Information Security and Business Continuity Manager

Bharti Airtel intends to protect its business sensitive information by implementing the controls pertaining to People, Process and Technology.
These are achieved by implementing information security policies, procedures and practices within various business processes, product/services and employee activities across all functions and lines of business.
This job is required to ensure the on-ground enforcement and continual monitoring of security operations within all Airtel money functions, strategic partners and other third parties in the defined OpCos.
It encompasses security operations within Data Centres, providing support for managed security services and New Product Development (NPD)

• supporting business and technology teams by evaluating security related aspects of critical services in Airtel Money
• assessment of the solutions and services platform
• monitoring of ongoing IT & NW security projects
• application security;
• facilitating Internal and External IT audits & helping the operations team during on-ground closure of the audit observations;
• carry out investigations and forensics;
• assessment of the risks that may lead to breach of confidentiality and business disruptions;
• implementing process/technology controls to mitigate the identified risks; closely interacting with respective security heads in other OpCos;
• reviewing fraud management activities done by operations teams;
• collaborating with functions to roll-out security policies and procedures;
• ensuring availability of appropriate security IM, GSDs, and system-level implementation procedures in association with system-owners;
• owning the responsibility of ensuring ISMS implementation and successful certification (ISO 27001 and 22301) once undertaken in the airtel locations;
• reviewing functional implementation of security through ISWG and respective function heads within OpCos;
• mitigation of the risks that may arise out of Third Parties and eventually ensuring compliance to BTSP;
• preparing the dashboards for top management review,
• managing the OpCo-wide security override function, according central security approvals after evaluating associated risks;
• supporting BCP/DR activities; ensuring implementations of security controls at the critical processing areas such  as shared services (RA, CSD, Finance, HR and SCM);
• monitoring compliance artefacts supporting partner security SLAs; and institutionalizing Customer Privacy Framework.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Bachelor Degree of Science/ Technology/Engineering (preferably in IT or Computer Science & Engineering)
• Security Certification preferred (e.g. CISA, CISSP, CEH, etc)
• The ideal candidate should have excellent knowledge of Information Security standards, policies, controls and structures prevalent in the telecom industry along with Africa operating environment.
• Extensive experience in handling information security operations or consulting for large and geographically dispersed organisations.
• A high level appreciation of Security Architecture and Infrastructure across application, middleware, OS and network domains
• Experience in operational and strategic information security risk management.
• Should have adequate knowledge of the ISO 27001 Standard.
• A detailed understanding of systems design and systems development methodologies is required.
• Should have adequate experience in handling large and complex projects
• Should be familiar with the contents of relevant Government Acts and Guidelines in the Information Technology domain.
• Excellent knowledge of information security frameworks such as COBIT.
• Knowledge and experience in the preparation of asset registers, conduct of risk assessments and in the preparation and implementation of risk treatment plans.
• Knowledge of the latest trends, technology developments, tools and methodologies in the IS Risk Management arena.
• Experience in handling geographically spread teams with proven team leadership skills.

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