Cyber Security and Infrastructure Officer (Re – advertised) at BRAC | Kigali : Deadline: 12-12-2023

JOB RE ADVERTISEMNT

BRAC is the world’s largest, and leading development organization dedicated to poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Initiated in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC now operates in 11 countries across Asia, and Africa. To counter poverty and promote social empowerment, BRAC strategically integrates development programs in microfinance, agriculture, health, education, human rights and legal aid, community empowerment, and more.

BRAC Rwanda Microfinance Company PLC is registered with Rwanda Development Board in September 2018 and was approved license from National Bank of Rwanda to operate Microfinance and other financial services in Rwanda. BRAC Rwanda is looking for competent, dynamic, and self-motivated Rwandans to fill the following regular position.

Position:  Cyber Security and Infrastructure Officer 

Job Location: Kigali.

Salary: Negotiable

Reporting to: Head, IT 

NOTE: Extensive knowledge of Cyber Security is the basic requirement for this position.  


Purpose

The IT Infrastructure & Security officer will ensure the efficient and cyber secure design, installation, and operation of IT infrastructure at all data centers (physical or cloud-based), in Head Office and branch offices. This will include all components of the Wide Area Network (routers, switches, firewalls), server infrastructure (including operating systems and Microsoft Windows Active Directory), electronic mail, Internet service and components of any electronic payment systems infrastructure e.g., switches, field data collection systems/tablets.

The role will (1) lead innovation through research and applied forward thinking to employ and deploy cyber secure cloud-based technology and infrastructure services across BRAC (2) ensure the highest level of technical services support is provided to branch offices (3) manage and ensure in conjunction with country IT teams that all field work and infrastructure projects are delivered in a timely manner and meet or exceed accepted standards of quality, (4) provide remote and on-site technical support for escalated issue resolution when necessary and (5) maintains positive relationships with BI IT and BIHBV-approved service partners to achieve overall organizational goals.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with Head of IT, BI IT and strategic service partners to design systems architecture, build and deploy at country offices.
• Monitors and ensures high quality IT service partner service delivery.
• Provides expert infrastructure support to all IT project implementations.
• Significantly contributes to achieving the IT department’s strategic objectives and ensures effective solutions are created and implemented to meet business requirements.
• Ensures an effective and validated Disaster Recovery infrastructure exists for each branch office.
• Develops with BI IT, and maintains a cyber security and infrastructure system monitoring strategy, using an effective tool portfolio.
• Creates a communication plan to ensure all team members are well-informed of architecture standards, implementation guidelines and process expectations.
• Acts as the lead systems architect for all system design and implementation activities.
• Works with BI IT to protect all cloud data via effective security, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery techniques.

• Adheres to audit and compliance expectations and continually seeks to improve system controls and cyber    security.
• Ensures that all implementation initiatives follow established change management policies/ITIL compliant processes.
• Maintains up-to-date asset and licensing inventories at Head office and branch offices 
  
  
  

Key performance indicators:

• 99% infrastructure systems uptime
• 100% compliance to network security

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:

The needed qualifications and skills are: –

• Extensive Knowledge in Cyber Security
• Requires an understanding of, and a commitment to advancing the mission and core values of BRAC International and, the ability to incorporate them into the job setting and articulate them to staff.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Persuading and influencing
• Implementation and management of infrastructure platforms or components like Unix, Windows, Storage Technologies, Databases, Middleware, Capacity Management, etc.
• Proficient in Networking and Communications
• Allocate and manage the resources, support and infrastructure required for any IT projects, products and services.

Specific educational qualification:

SPECIFIC EDUCATION QUALIFICATION:

CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional

ITIL V3 Foundation

Candidates need to send a signed Cover letter in PDF format indicating the title of the position applied for, updated CV mentioning educational and professional qualifications, years of experience, and notarized scan copies of academic qualifications. All those documents should be sent through email: recruitment.rwanda@brac.net , Application deadline is 12tth  December  2023 

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be called for written test and interview.