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Job Openings at Growth in Value Alliance, 9th July, 2019

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Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities. We are recruiting to fill the position below:       Job Title: IT Security Manager (Contract) Location: Lagos Job Description

• We are looking for a talented IT Security professional to join a high-performing team that is charged with governing, managing and delivering our company’s cyber security.
• As a Senior Security manager, this position will provide the individual an opportunity to help shape the direction of our company’s cyber security programs by providing thought leadership, professional support and valued contributions to a range of activities. We are looking for an experienced security professional with strong technical skills across various security technologies, working knowledge of security incident response protocols, and an awareness of emerging cyber threats and trends.
• This position plays a critical role in identifying, protecting, detecting and responding to potential security vulnerabilities, while also providing consultative support for security-related projects. The right person will bring passion that promotes continuous learning, and a drive to regularly identify and assess new or emerging capabilities.

Responsibilities This position is responsible for monitoring and managing preventative security technologies, detecting and responding to possible vulnerabilities, assessing potential risks, and helping to mitigate emerging threats. Specifically, this role is part of a team that is responsible for:

• Shared management of the company’s security technologies, including platforms that support Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Intrusion Prevention, Intrusion Detection, Log Aggregation, Endpoint Detection and Response and Threat Intelligence. Employing the security technologies to continuously monitor the company’s assets, and then taking action to respond to potential vulnerabilities and threats. This work includes reviewing automated alerts, correlating information from various sources, triaging and removing potential malware infections, and applying preventative controls to mitigate risks.
• Taking an active role in supporting broader Security Incident Response protocols, including partnering with other technology areas to respond and recover in a coordinated and timely manner. As such, this role requires 24x7 on-call coverage for response to potential security incidents.
• Reviewing security intelligence information and researching emerging threats in order to proactively identify and prevent potential threats.
• Conducting deeper analysis into security logs, network traffic patterns, and correlated information, as a means of ‘hunting’ for advanced persistent threats.
• Supporting technical threat / risk assessments, including Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.
• 6-10 years of work experience in Information Security, and in similar technical roles, such as networking and scripting technologies
• A broad and diverse security skill-set with advanced understanding of modern network security technologies (e.g. Firewalls, Security Information Event Management, Intrusion Prevention, Intrusion Detection, DDoS protections, Log Aggregation, Anti-Virus, etc.).
• Practical experience and knowledge of operating systems (UNIX / Linux / Windows), network communication protocols, application layer security, firewalls, packet analysis and scripting skills.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively partnering across organizational teams, working collaboratively with professionals that support end-user services, network technologies, infrastructure, and applications.
• An ability to identify and assesses the severity and potential impact of threats and communicate assessment findings in a way that consistently drives objective, fact-based decisions.
• Strong decision-making capabilities with a proven ability to weigh relative business impacts against the importance of security measures.
• Excellent prioritization capabilities, with an aptitude for breaking down work into manageable parts, effectively assessing the priority and time required to complete each part.
• Organizational skills that enables one to work on several tasks simultaneously, providing management with appropriate insight into the workload and priorities.
• Original and innovative thinking that produces new ideas and creates innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement process improvement initiatives.
• Passion around technology and information security with a concerted focus on researching and understanding threats that cover all levels of IT architecture, including those that affect business processes, data, applications, network systems and infrastructure.
• A willingness to continuously learn and develop skills commensurate to this role and other potential growth opportunities within and across the organization.

    Job Title: UI/UX Designer (Senior Associate) Location: Lagos Responsibilities

• Create and design web elements that optimize user interaction and experience.
• Lead creation of wireframes, storyboards, and conceptual models for testing and building a clean UI for the best user-experience.
• Lead building of wireframes and storyboards to conceptualize design.
• Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and screen designs.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Lead user research and evaluate user feedback.
• Lead user testing of applications, software, and websites with Test Engineers.
• Modify existing, create new and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Provide guidance and recommendations on software design and development best practices to both software developers, key leadership and the customer.
• Help define UX performance metrics and perform post-development usability testing to validate business needs and user goals.

General Skills

• Analytical capabilities, strong writing skills, and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Good written and oral communication across business and technical stakeholders
• Able to comfortably manage multiple tasks, communicate status, escalate issues and juggle competing priorities
• Experience in leading teams to deliver UI/UX designs

Background:

• 3-5 years of experience developing user interface solutions for complex, multi-platform enterprise-level software applications and projects.

Preferred skills:

• Use automation tests and/or frameworks such as Selenium, Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, etc.
• Use analytical skills to uncover root causes to issues.
• Experience using one or more of the following wire framing tools: Mockplus, Axure, Balsamiq, Mockups, Justinmind, Fluid UI, MockFlow, UXPin, Proto.io.
• Experience working within the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Experience designing web-based solutions and cross browser compatible solutions.
• Experience working with end user stakeholders at various levels of the organization to design effective user interfaces and work with developers to implement design
• Designing mobile specific solutions with various platforms (iOS, Android, mobile web).
• An eye for great UI / UX Design.
• Working knowledge of quantitative, behavioral analysis and statistics

    Job Title: .Net Developer Location: Lagos Job Description

• The application developer role is a technology focused role intended to provide software development and analysis services to the group. This role is best suited to candidates with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based solutions with technologies like JAVA, .NET and related technologies and also strong in depth SQL-Server development experience.
• The candidate needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career. He must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details. Must possess strong analytical skills, be proactive, and acquire new technical skills as needed to perform job duties.

Requirements The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:

• Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements.
• 2-4 years of .Net framework development experience
• 1-2 years in writing C# ,HTML 5,Javascript and with SQL server
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, organizational skills, and be able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience and Qualifications Ideal candidate should have:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S/B.A), Computer Science, Computer or Electronic Engineering or similar experiences
• 2-3 years delivery experience with Java or .NET technologies.
• Considerable experience with Oracle database(Oracle 10g &11g).

      Job Title: Java Developer Location: Lagos Job Description

• The application developer role is a technology focused role intended to provide software development and analysis services to the institution.
• The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based applications (in C# 3.0, JAVA and above) that also has proven in depth SQL-Server development experience.
• Applicants must be comfortable with advanced SQL syntax, SQL Server Business Intelligence development and SQL Server (Oracle experience is highly desirable). The candidate needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career. He must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details.
• Must also recognize the value of agile, iterative development processes, SDLC and have strong OOD and OOA skills.

Responsibilities/Competencies The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:

• Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements.
• Delivery experience with .NET framework, including C#, ADO.NET, LINQ and ASP.NET.
• 2-4 years delivery experience with Java.
• Extensive experience with SQL Server (2005/2008/2012).
• Extensive experience in the use of Oracle Database.
• Experience with SQL data business intelligence (OLAP, etc…) preferred
• Advanced knowledge and experience in HTML and DHTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
• Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with implementation and testing of DB backups, restores and recovery models.
• Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Mobile and web service development experience
• Experience with ticketing systems (e.g.; JIRA, Bugzilla) and managed workflows
• Experience with SharePoint 2010 and above preferred
• Strong familiarity with source control systems (e.g. Team Suite)

Problem Solving: The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:

• The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
• Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
• Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
• Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
• Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required.
• People Management and Development

The post holder will need to show evidence of the following:

• The ability to work well within a team and as part of a larger overall technology team
• They should display strong collaborative characteristics

Experience and Qualifications Ideal candidate should have:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S/B.A), Computer Science or similar.
• 4 years delivery experience with Java.
• Extensive experience with Oracle database.

      How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV in MS Word to: [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] with Job Title as the subject of the mail. for example: "Application for Developers (.Net)"   Application Deadline 27th September, 2019.

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