14 Security Lead jobs in Nigeria

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• Experience Level : Senior level
• Experience Length : 7 years

Job Role: Cybersecurity Lead

Industry: Technology

Work Mode: Hybrid (Full Time)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Lead to drive our cybersecurity practice, deliver innovative security solutions, and serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients. This role blends technical expertise, consulting, and business leadership to safeguard digital environments and accelerate business growth.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Wragby's cybersecurity strategy and technology roadmap.

Act as SME on security solutions, frameworks, and regulations.

Support technical presales with solution designs, proposals, and RFP responses.

Deliver enterprise solutions across network, cloud, IAM, SOC, endpoint security.

Oversee incident response, risk assessments, compliance (ISO 27001, GDPR, NDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST).

Mentor cybersecurity teams and strengthen client partnerships.

Job Requirements

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (Master's is a plus).

7+ years in cybersecurity, with at least 3 years in leadership/consulting.

Strong background in IT consulting and systems integration.

Proven experience in presales and enterprise solution delivery.

Preferred Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, CEH, ISO 27001.

OEM certifications: Microsoft, Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, AWS Security.

Deep knowledge of network, cloud, IAM, SIEM, endpoint security, threat intel.

Excellent communication, client engagement, and leadership skills.

Interested and qualified Candidates can send CVs to with the job role as the email subject.

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The Territory Security Lead coordinates the delivery of guarding security services in the assigned location; supervises compliance officers and operatives for seamless operations and to uphold service standards; provides periodic report and updates on operations in assigned locations; and engages clients to ensure satisfaction and retention.

Job Type: Full-time

Role & responsibilities

Position: Lead Security/Logistic (Ex Defence)

Rank: Captain /Major

Job Location: Nigeria

Job Profile :

Security Lead develops and implements security policies, performs risk assessments, oversees security personnel and budgets, ensures compliance with regulations, responds to and investigates incidents, and manages security systems to protect people and assets

Logistics Lead is responsible for managing and coordinating the storage, transportation, and distribution of goods within a supply chain, from origin to consumption

Age: 48 Limit

Preferred candidate profile

Ex-Defence Major/Captain

Please send your profile :

Regards,

Namrata Koli

Overview:

We're seeking a Manager: Application Security Engineering Lead to lead the application security strategy, engineering practices, and platforms across the enterprise. This role ensures that all software — from web and mobile apps to APIs and integrations — is designed, built, and operated securely. The Manager champions DevSecOps adoption, drives secure-by-design principles, and partners with engineering leaders to reduce risk while enabling rapid delivery.

At TeKnowledge, your work makes an impact from day one. We partner with organizations to deliver AI-First Expert Technology Services that drive meaningful impact in AI, Customer Experience, and Cybersecurity. We turn complexity into clarity and potential into progress—in a place where people lead and tech empowers.

You'll be part of a diverse and inclusive team where trust, teamwork, and shared success fuel everything we do. We push boundaries, using advanced technologies to solve complex challenges for clients around the world.

Here, your work drives real change, and your ideas help shape the future of technology. We invest in you with top-tier training, mentorship, and career development—ensuring you stay ahead in an ever-evolving world.

Why You'll Enjoy It Here:

• Be Part of Something Big – A growing company where your contributions matter.
• Make an Immediate Impact – Support groundbreaking technologies with real-world results.
• Work on Cutting-Edge Tech – AI, cybersecurity, and next-gen digital solutions.
• Thrive in an Inclusive Team – A culture built on trust, collaboration, and respect.
• We Care – Integrity, empathy, and purpose guide every decision.

We're looking for innovators, problem-solvers, and experts ready to drive change and grow with us.

We Are TeKnowledge. Where People Lead and Tech Empowers.

Responsibilities:

Security Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the application security roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy and compliance obligations.
• Champion secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices across backend, frontend, mobile, cloud, and integration teams.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security stakeholders to balance speed-to-market with security and compliance.
• Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and frameworks relevant to application security.

Secure SDLC & DevSecOps Enablement

• Embed security into every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Oversee deployment of application security testing tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA) within CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive adoption of secure coding practices, threat modelling, and code reviews.
• Establish policies and playbooks for secure development and release management.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure applications comply with regulatory and industry standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR, POPIA, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
• Oversee secure design reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability remediation.
• Govern API security, identity management, and encryption standards across platforms.
• Partner with enterprise GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) to manage audits and security certifications.

Leadership & People Development

• Lead and mentor application security engineers, DevSecOps specialists, and secure coding champions.
• Build organizational expertise in secure development, cloud-native security, and API security.
• Foster a culture of security-first engineering through training, awareness, and technical leadership.
• Develop career pathways and succession planning for security-focused engineering talent.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Collaborate with DevOps, cloud, and software engineering leads to ensure security alignment across platforms.
• Partner with external vendors and consultants for pen testing, code audits, and security toolchains.
• Represent application security in architecture boards, risk committees, and executive forums.
• Manage vendor relationships for AppSec platforms, scanners, and monitoring tools.

Qualifications:

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or related field (mandatory).
• Postgraduate qualification (MSc in Cybersecurity, MBA) – advantageous.
• Professional Certifications (preferred/required): CISSP, CISM, or CISA; CSSLP, GWAPT, or OSWE; AWS/Azure/GCP Security certifications, Kubernetes Security Specialist; SAFe Practitioner, Scrum Master (advantageous).

Experience

• 8–12 years' experience in software or security engineering, with at least 3–5 years in an application security leadership role.
• Proven track record in embedding security into large-scale enterprise software delivery.
• Hands-on experience with secure coding, API security, cryptography, and OWASP Top 10.
• Experience implementing SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong exposure to cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerized environments.
• Experience managing security audits, regulatory compliance, and third-party risk assessments.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Deep expertise in application security frameworks, secure SDLC, and DevSecOps.
• Strong knowledge of threat modelling, risk assessment, and security design reviews.
• Leadership ability to build and mentor security-focused engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence engineering and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive, prevention-first mindset.

Role Description

This is a full-time role for a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst located on-site in Abuja, Makurdi and Kaduna.

The SOC Analyst will be responsible for monitoring and analyzing security events, conducting cyber threat hunting (CTH) and cyber threat intelligence (CTI) activities, and responding to security incidents.

The SOC Analyst will also be tasked with maintaining security operations center protocols and methodologies to safeguard the organization from cyber threats effectively.

Qualifications

• Cyber Threat Hunting (CTH) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) skills
• SIEM experience (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic)
• Flexible 8-hour shifts (Mon–Fri) – shifts assigned randomly
• Proficiency in cybersecurity and security operations center procedures
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
• Ability to work on-site in Abuja
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CompTIA Security+ are a plus

Deadline: Tuesday, 16th September

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Rest of Nigeria (Nationwide)

Confidential

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Why Airtel Africa?

At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like "ordinary", then we are not for you.

We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.

By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.

The purpose of the role is to effectively handle all security operational activities, liaise and manage relations with government security agencies, interface with Government Regulatory Agencies i.e. LGAS and State Govts, work permit community activities and contractors in order to minimize disruptions and ensure continuity of business operations in the region. In addition to this, the role will effectively manage the Security Operations and Administration in the entire West Regions (West and West Central Zones) of the country, by developing the framework for supervising the various Security Service Providers and equally coordinating the activities of the Regional Security Specialists in the Region.

Airtel Africa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and remain fully committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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MAIN FUNCTIONS

The role of the Security Operations Analyst can be summarized as the processing and management of

information. The Security Operations Analyst is the Security and Community Affairs (CA) focal point for all community and social information relating to, and impacting on, the company's interests across locally, not just for the project.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The primary role of the Security Operations Analyst is to ensure effective communication and

information flow between the Security Department and the CA Department. This includes;

The collation and communication of relevant information captured by Community Affairs and Public & Government Affairs to the Security Department.

• The role includes the requirement to produce written and verbal reports providing statistical data as well as analysis and comment on community-related issues, incidents and threats impacting on the company. The timely production and dissemination of these reports is critical and will require the Operations Analyst to prioritize tasking in order to meet the deadlines and provide near real time reporting.
• The Security Operations Analyst will also provide comment and analysis of trends and key issues relating to community and social issues, and threats impacting upon the company and/or the Project as well as comment on threat agents.
• The Security Operations Analyst will provide proactive advice on community and social issues to the Security Manager and, where tasked, to Global Security.
• The Security Operations Analyst will supervise and train the Data Analyst to better share job workload and to become competent in all requirements of the Security Operations Analyst role.
• Use approved software to generate reports and data as required.
• As directed by the Security Manager, the Operations Analyst will conduct field trips to the different sites.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Superior analytical and conceptual skills
• Experience in the collation, analysis and dissemination of data related to security, community and social issues
• Exceptional skill in all aspects of report preparation, including concept, design and production
• Well-developed written and oral communication skills
• Ability to deliver succinct and effective presentations
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines without supervision
• Ability to respond to task related pressure – in particular to compressed timelines
• Demonstrated high competency with MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Commitment to Safety, Security, Health, and Environment (SSHE) principles
• Detailed knowledge of managing i2 software or equivalent

METHOD OF APPLICATION:

Using the Job Title as the subject of the mail, interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:

NOTE:

Please carefully review the job requirements and skills before applying. Candidates whose CVs do not align with the job description will be disqualified from the recruitment process. Pls pay attention to the JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a must; any candidate who submits without carrying out this instruction will be disqualified and not be shortlisted.

Job Location: Akwa ibom

Level: Level 3

DelonJobs is seeking to hire a Lead, Security Architecture and Engineering for a leading Insurance Company in Lagos, Nigeria.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for reducing information security risks and incidents through the design, implementation, and maintenance of effective security solutions across end-user systems, applications, networks, servers, and other IT infrastructure.

Interested candidates must possess a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science, or any related field, with a minimum of 5 years' relevant experience in Information Security with at least 3 years in Enterprise Security.

Annual gross salary is between N10M - N13M

Interested candidates should send their CVs with the subject "Lead, Security Architecture and Engineering -SACI251" to

Job Type: Full-time

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of effective systems security solutions.
• Lead the planning and design activities for the enterprise security architecture, under the directives of the Chief Information Security Officer.
• Participate in the creation of enterprise security policies, standards, baselines.
• Constantly assess the organizations exposure to information security threats and develop appropriate counter measures.
• Develop security baselines in line with CIS standards for various IT Infrastructure including Applications, Databases, Routers, Switches, Servers, Virtual machines etc.
• Monitor and advise on information security issues related to the systems and workflow to ensure the internal security controls are appropriate and operating as intended.
• Installing firewalls, data encryption and other security measures
• Participate in the deployment of tested security patches and updates.
• Responsible for preventing data loss and service interruptions by researching new technologies that will effectively protect a network
• Identify vulnerabilities and monitor remediation. Proactively take steps to avoid security breaches.
• Manage external vulnerability assessment and penetration testing exercises.
• Prepare various reports for management decision-making
• Perform other functions as assigned by the Chief Information Security Officer
• Manage Subordinates' performance and conduct formal appraisal

Key Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years' relevant experience in Information Security with at least 3 years in Enterprise Security.
• Professional certifications like CISSP, CISM, ISO27001, CEH.
• Hands-on experience in security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management, content filtering, SIEM, NAC, FIM, WAF, and DAM etc.
• Demonstrable experience with network security and networking technologies as well as with systems, security, and network monitoring tools.
• Demonstrable familiarity with web-related technologies (web applications, web services, service-oriented architectures), and network/ web-related protocols.
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
• Proactive, Resourceful, and hands-on with good initiative.
• Experience with security Project Management, Security controls, and Systems design.

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Rest of Nigeria (Nationwide)

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Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

• Implementation and administration of Network security controls and management strategies to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and compliance of the bank's network information assets.
• Development and management of network security policies, standards and procedures based on knowledge of best practises and compliance requirements
• Ensure that network security software and hardware are up to date and that security measures are in place to protect against outside threats. Also carries out other operational security activities to ensure that the organizations network is not compromised. Activities include administration and management of firewalls, Internet gateways, Internet based DDOS protection, Internet traffic advertisement and filtering, intrusion prevention and detection as well as ensuring that only secure network protocols permitted across the network.
• Configuration and administration of SSL VPNs (Remote access or Site-to-site), Troubleshoot technical application and network problems and provide remote support. Ensure that all incidents are responded to, actioned and resolved within the required MTTR. Ensure that calls are escalated and communicated to the required support teams and to management where required
• Design and Implement security protocols and procedures to protect the organizations systems and data
• Manage Core network devices for connectivity across network segments (DMZ, Internet, etc). Manage the network segmentation requirements across the organization and take responsibility for ensuring the required network controls are in place for maintaining the organization's PCIDSS certification
• Implement and Manage network connectivity with 3rd party partners over MPLS networks
• Implement and design network security controls for cloud services on AWS, Azure and other SAAS deployments
• Collaborating with network architects, technology suppliers, project managers and other technology support teams to design, build, and implement secure application systems
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for network security analysts. Stay current on security measures and industry standards and regulations
  Manage housekeeping activities for the network security team, demonstrate high level competence with regards to enterprise Network security systems and work in tandem with the operational and information security functions to ensure security of the organization's information and technology estate

Qualifications

• First degree in Computer Science or any IT related discipline
  Professional qualification in CCNA, CEH, CCNP

Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of post qualification experience
• IT security Experience/ communication or Network experience.
• Knowledge of a variety of network management tools, test equipment, circuits and routers,
• Experience in TCP/IP protocol stacks and firewall security in an inter-networking environment.
  Experience designing/implementing QoS in an enterprise environment, checkpoint, Cisco switches and routers

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies

• Interacting with People
• Generating Ideas
• Interpreting Data
• Exploring Possibilities
• Team Working
  Following Procedures

Technical Competencies

• Network Security
• Network Analysis and Troubleshooting
• IT Support
  Business Continuity Management

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