AXA Mansard is a member of the AXA Group, the worldwide leader in insurance and asset management with 157,000 employees serving 103 million clients in 59 countries. The group is a conglomerate of independently run businesses, operated according to the laws and regulations of many different countries. Despite being written in upper case, "AXA" is not an acronym, the name was chosen because it is short and can be pronounced easily the same way in every language. AXA Mansard was incorporated in 1989 as a private limited liability company and is registered as a composite company with the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria (NAICOM). The Company offers life and non-life insurance products and services to individuals and institutions across Nigeria whilst also offering asset/investment management services, medical insurance solutions and pension fund administration through its three subsidiaries AXA Mansard Health Limited, AXA Mansard Investments Limited and AXA Mansard Pensions limited. The company was listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange in November 2009 and has Market Capitalization in excess of N28 billion thereby remaining the biggest insurance company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
The Head of Infrastructure Security leads the organization’s threat prevention, detection, response, and recovery capabilities. This role owns the Security Operations Centre (SOC), incident response, threat intelligence, and security engineering functions.
Role Qualification:
Academic/Professional:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related; A master’s is an added advantage and any certifications strongly preferred: CISSP, CISM, GIAC (GCIA/GCIH/GCTI/GNFA), CCSK/CCSP, AZ-500, AWS Security Specialty.
Work Experience:
- 10+ years in Tech generally
- Minimum of 5 years in cybersecurity, with 3+ years leading SOC/IR or Cyber Defence functions at scale.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), and forensics.
- Proven leadership in major incident management and executive-level communication.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the Cyber Defence Strategy, aligned with enterprise risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
- Align controls with frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001, CIS Controls), and audit readiness.
- Lead SOC operations: monitoring, triage, investigation, containment, and recovery.
- Manage Major Incident Response end-to-end (root cause analysis, lessons learned, and executive post-incident reports).
- Build/consume Threat Intelligence (strategic, operational, and tactical) to drive detection and control tuning.
- Coordinate Red/Purple Team exercises, breach simulations, and validate control effectiveness against real-world TTPs
- Drive automation (SOAR) for repetitive tasks, reducing MTTD/MTTR and false positives.
- Partner with IT/Cloud/Network teams to embed secure configurations, segmentation, and zero-trust principles.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Background and technical knowledge and skills in information technology, information security and cyber security with a clear understanding of security controls design and implementation and information security trends.
- Working knowledge of information security management; Governance, Policy & Standards, Information Security Strategy, Information Security Awareness and Training, Innovation & Business Improvement, Legal & Regulatory Environment and Third-Party Management.
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