Operations Security Manager


Employer:Maersk Group
The Maersk Group is a diversified global conglomerate with activities mainly in shipping and energy industries. It employs roughly 121,000 people, and generated 59 billion US dollars in revenue in 2012.

As a Group, its business success is built on a number of strengths: size and global reach, financial strength, talented employees, time-honoured values, approach to sustainability and drive to innovate. Combined, these strengths form a unique platform for the Group’s continued success and future growth.

With the ambitions of the different businesses in the Group, there is a need to strengthen the IT infrastructure, as this is a core enabler for future growth and stability. The Group is now taking the next step in professionalising its IT infrastructure services by creating a world-class professional IT shared services organisation that allows its employees across the world to stay connected and do business seamlessly, through efficient and reliable infrastructure. The new organisation will service the entire Group on Infrastructure services and will enable the Group to have consistent and efficient delivery of IT infrastructure services, and an increased ability to accelerate key improvements such as IT security.

The Maersk Group is on the lookout for ambitious, accomplished and dedicated IT individuals who are interested in joining in its transformation journey.

We Offer

Maersk Line is a highly international and inspiring environment with an attractive value proposition for its employees. Our package consists of an externally benchmarked salary, pension scheme, 25 days holiday a year and a number of other attractive benefits.


Key Responsibilities

Accountable for specialist areas of information security, covering both governance and technical work streams.
Driving strategic security improvement initiatives.
Providing internal advisory services to projects (MGIS and demand Business Units) in order to ensure that security is properly embedded at delivery.
Stakeholder management at a regional level.
Managing and performing risk assessment activities.
Providing regional coordination of security activities including business continuity.
Acting as escalation point for information security issues.
Keeping abreast of current and emerging security trends and threats.
Working with the business, service providers, and vendors to ensure internal SLA and OLA are met and exceeded.
Working closely with the teams in the ‘command and control’ centre.

Who we are looking for
Deliver day-to-day operational support to the business to address 3rdline issues and incidents, through to resolution for security product suite that includes McAfee, Trend, and PKI.

Provide support and guidance to 1st \ 2nd line offshore team.
Involvement in vendor management to ensure SLA and OLA targets are met.

Drive the development, implementation, and compliance of information security standards, processes and procedures across the organisation. Accountable for risk management and mitigation related to information security, business continuity planning, crisis management, and/or compliance.

May include regional responsibility for stakeholder management.

Solid IT experience, typically 7+ years, including hands on experience of networks and endpoints.
Information Security and Risk Management experience
Knowledge of national and international regulatory compliances and frameworks.
Information Security Certification preferred (CISSP, CISM, IISP or similar)
Previous roles would typically include Information Security Manager; SOC manager

Technical skills
Information security skills (certification preferred)
Broad IT knowledge
Legal and regulatory skills
IT Operations
Business skills

Risk Management & Mitigation
Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skills
Business Continuity Management
High level communication skills
Leadership skills
Networking skills
Ability to react (quickly) to a changing environment
Personal profile

Results-driven
Ability to influence and persuade
Decision maker


Last application date: 14 March 2016.