Job Title: West Africa IT Regional Manager                                          

Location: Dakar, Senegal, or Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Job Category: Local    

Travel Required: Yes                                                                   

The West Africa IT Regional Manager performs four primary functions for the Seaboard Overseas Division:

• Monitor, support & escalation of technical infrastructure for regional affiliates
• Provide support, guidance, and training to affiliate staff in compliance with corporate policy, regulatory and other compliance requirements
• Deliver project management to regional affiliates technical infrastructure initiatives
• Primary liaison for communication of technical infrastructure between regional affiliates and SOTG corporate office

Infrastructure

• Assists in the planning and implementation of networks
• Implements network security
• Oversees the administration and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure, assists, and directs local IT staff to meet the administration needs of the local business
• Recommends hardware and software systems and other infrastructural needs
• Procures regional equipment where needed
• Ensures proper troubleshooting, systems backups, archiving, and disaster recovery meets the SOTG Best Practices and provides expert support when necessary to meet those objectives
• Responsible for ensuring all locations are meeting the Seaboard Overseas Best Practices and Security Policy (including local compliance)
• Co-Manages Office 365 tenants
• Support existing and recommend advancement to AWS & Cloud computing environments
• Participate in IT Security Initiative rollout team for the Africa region
• Assist in developing a local infrastructure plan for the subsidiary- implementing the infrastructure upgrades needed

Governance & Management

• Responsible for working with Africa affiliate companies to meet the SOTG Security Policy standards
• Responsible for ensuring the local affiliates understanding of the Security & Procedural Policies
• Facilitate security penetration & attack scans and remediation follow ups with affiliate companies
• Assist executing the SOTG IT Audit plan for all subsidiaries
• Assist/Ensure local affiliate companies properly remediate vulnerabilities

Skillset

• Must be bilingual in French and English
• Active Directory, MS Exchange, 0365, SQL Server
• Networking: DNS , Domain & SSL certs
• Server Hardware & Infrastructure (Firewalls, Switches)
• Basic Security background or experience in these preferred areas:
• Qualys, Kaseya VSA, Symantec EPP, Sophos EPP, Identity Management software, Network Software Segmentation concepts, DR planning all a plus
• Knowledge of Dynamics Business Central a plus
• Ability to manage small to medium size IT projects
• Must be willing and able to travel approximately 25-35% of the time throughout West Africa

*Location of position will be either Dakar, Senegal or Abidjan, Ivory Coast.