Cellulant is Africa’s no.1 company in the payments & transfers category - FIntech Awards 2016. We are a PPISP (Payment Platform Infrastructure Service Provider) regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and insured by Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Information Security / SOC Analyst
Location: Lagos
Department: Information Security
Reports to: Principal: Information Security & CISO Nigeria
Job Description
- As an Information Security/SOC Analyst you will be responsible for real-time monitoring of the organization’s information assets with an objective to promptly identify and thwart likely or/and ongoing cybersecurity incidents or attacks.
- You will collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure that preventive and detective controls targeted at minimizing the likelihood of a successful breach on the organization’s infrastructure are put in place.
Core Responsibilities
The role holder would be responsible for the following:
- Monitors and analyses network traffic leveraging on security tools implemented within the organization
- Carries out Vulnerability Assessment on the infrastructure
- Engages with stakeholders on the resolution of security incidents
- Identifies indicators of compromises-IoCs and indicators of attacks-IoAs on the network
- Analyses IoCs and IoAs, and coordinate closure of identified risks as the need arises
- Recommends controls to address identified weaknesses on the network
- Support the organization security certification program by ensuring that Security Monitoring Requirements relevant to each standard are met
- Identifies all relevant log sources and ensure collection of logs from the relevant log sources
- Specifies security requirements for provisioning of new assets on the network
- Carries out security review on information assets such as Databases and Firewalls
- Provides supports for the optimization of security configurations on assets such as WAFs, Network Firewalls, Emails e.t.c
- Manages security configuration setups and optimization on security tools such EDRs, SIEM, SAST and DAST tools e.t.c
- Coordinates monitoring and reporting activities with other SOC Analyst
- Coordinates and manages security incident management process.
Qualifications & Experience
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or other relevant courses
- Relevant certifications: CompTIA Security +, CompTIA CySA+, EC-Council Certified SOC Analysts and EC-Council CEH
Must have experience:
- Over 3 years’ experience as a SOC Analyst, preferably with experience within the financial sector
- Have sound understanding of threats and vulnerability management
- Have a sound understanding of the workings of the following Operation Systems: Windows, MacOs and Linux (multiple flavors of Linux)
- Have a sound understanding of network architectures and communication protocols
- Have sound understanding of Risk and Incident Management
- Have a good understanding of basic network communications within an IT Infrastructure
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure security and security of a hybrid infrastructure
Nice to-have experience:
- Good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure and workings of a hybrid environment
- Good understanding of security standard requirements such as ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS
- Team management – should have managed a team
Skills:
- Efficient in the use of security tools such as SIEM - previous experience with Splunk preferred
- Be an efficient communicator with capabilities to communicate complex technical situation in simpler forms to different stakeholders
- Good analytical skills and reporting skills
Key Relationships and Stakeholders:
- You will work under the Information Security Team and work closely with the Platform Engineering Team, Service Management Team, Software Engineering Team, and other relevant stakeholders.
Personal Attributes:
- Good and effective communicator
- Be inquisitive and have an eye for system anomalies
- Good distraction management skills
- Good Time Management skills
- Good Team Management/Collaboration skills.
What we offer
- Paid time off
- Healthcare coverage
- A highly collaborative team environment that will support your professional and personal growth
- Work alongside great talent.
- Opportunities for career growth and training.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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