Information Technology Team Lead

Saudi Railway Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Railway Company seeks an experienced IT Infrastructure and Security Specialist to implement projects and plans for the organization’s IT infrastructure. You will provide cutting-edge technology, tools, and solutions to support business growth and SAR requirements efficiently.

You will manage access controls, security configurations, data center benchmarks, and disaster recovery initiatives while ensuring confidentiality and availability of IT services across SAR’s network.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years in a similar role.
• Experience implementing IT infrastructure and security controls.
• Familiarity with data center operations and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Ensures user and access administration activities on designated systems and applications in line with policies.
• Installs and configures security systems and applications and assesses policy compliance tools.
• Benchmarks data center activities against international best practices to fit SAR needs.
• Monitors network and security logs and systems to ensure confidentiality, continuity and availability of IT services.
• Ensures daily reporting on servers, storage and backup performance.
• Implements information security and operations to protect information assets and optimize resources.
• Maintains IT data network infrastructure and provides ongoing support and maintenance.
• Investigates security violations and provides postmortem analysis and remediation.

Skills

IT infra

Security systems

Network security

Disaster recovery

Backup & restore

Job description

The role holder is responsible for implementing projects and plans for IT infrastructure, providing the cutting-edge technology that fits the organization scale and size and supports business requirements. Responsibilities include provision of tools and solutions to enable business growth and meet SAR requirements with efficiency and effectiveness. The role holder shall carry out his duties in accordance with the stipulated business policies and procedures.

Core Responsibilities:

Ensures user and access administration activities on designated systems and applications, in accordance with the defined policies, standards and procedures.

Ensures installation and configuration of security systems and applications (like network security appliances and host-based security systems) along with assessing policy and compliance tools.

Benchmarks data center activities with international best practices in order to suit SAR’s needs and requirements.

Monitor the network and security logs, systems and traffic) to ensure confidentiality, continuity and availability of the IT services.

Ensures and monitors daily reporting on servers, storage and backup performance.

Ensures implementation of information security, operations and activities to ensure protection of information assets while ensuring optimal use of personnel and equipment.

Ensures monitoring, operation, support and maintenance for IT data network Infrastructure.

Investigates and resolve security violations by providing postmortem analysis to illuminate the issues and possible solutions.

Develops and ensures services in response to various risks and threats.

Maintains the infrastructure and security systems being deployed at SAR.

Monitor the network and security logs and systems to insure confidentiality, continuity and availability of the IT services.

Manages and implements security awareness programs throughout SAR.

Leads disaster recovery projects designed specifically for evaluating application of technologies.

Performs data recovery capacity planning with other IT Department’s current, planned and new initiatives with a major focus on proactively ensuring an adequate recovery network and IT processing environment.

Basic Qualification:

Experience:

A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years in a similar role