JOB DETAILS:
Client brief:
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project involves the construction and operation of a buried, cross-border pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Albert area in Uganda to the eastern coast of Tanzania for export to international markets. The pipeline will run from Kabaale in Hoima District, Uganda, to Chongoleani, Tanga Region, in Tanzania. The length of the pipeline is 1,443 kilometres (km) of which 296 km will be in Uganda. In Uganda, the pipeline will traverse ten (10) Districts, comprising Hoima, Kikuube, Kakumiro, Kyankwanzi, Mubende, Gomba, Sembabule, Lwengo, Rakai, and Kyotera.

Position Summary:
The job holder shall secure set-up and support of EACOP IST solutions and services, perform deployment and adoption to the users, combined with ramp-up of users in EACOP Project phase, and Field Operations preparation.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Technical referent for IST architecture, cybersecurity, solutions, and services: produces and updates reference technical documentation.
• Provide second-level assistance to the Business Analysts and Local Operations and Support, and escalate to contracts service providers for expert assistance.

• Discover and test/implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.

• Cyber Security Officer: ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, responsible for enhancing and improving physical security and cybersecurity, organizing awareness, and managing risk assessment.
• Backup & Recovery strategy including regular testing.
• Data Protection Officer: maintaining records of all data processing activities, conducting regular assessments and audits to ensure compliance with the law, serving as the point of contact between the Company and the Ugandan National Data Protection Office, and the Tanzanian Personal Data Protection Commission, responding to Data Subjects and informing them about the usage of their Personal Data and the measures put in place to protect the data, ensuring that Data Subjects’ requests to see copies of their Data are fulfilled or responded to, as necessary.
• Provide operational support for crisis management.
• Project and operations management office.
• Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess the technological performance of Digital solutions.
• Accountable for the overall technical architecture, expert support, and cybersecurity.
• Use system infrastructure and services supervision and monitoring to ensure functionality and efficiency

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:
• Master knowledge and practice of applications administration and Microsoft 365.
• Proficiency in the usage of computers, software and applications, Cloud-based solutions and services, IST management and monitoring tools.
• Ability to organize and manage priorities, rigorous.
• General team spirit: Creative, strength of proposal for performance improvement, good contact, sense of communication.
• 10 to 15 years experience in its technical specialty (IST architecture, cybersecurity, project and operations management office).
• High Knowledge and strong skills in Cloud Architecture: DevOPS, design/ configuration/ management/ automation /security.
• Level: Middle Management