Cyber Security Engineer at Halogen Group

Halogen Group, previously Halogen Security firm Limited, was founded in July 1992 as a private limited liability firm to fill a void in Nigeria’s quality security services. As the leading comprehensive safety and security solutions firm in West Africa, we continue to focus on offering valuable solutions across the industry’s value chain.

Title: Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for ensuring that managed clients are protected from Cyber Risks by employing a broad range of technology-enabled services to prevent, detect and manage cyber threats. Developing strategic and tactical plans for the information security of the clients.

Technical Security Management:

• Provide technical advice and support to end-users (Clients) and the internal sales team on a wide range of different technologies and solutions
• Monitor managed clients for cyber-attacks, intrusions, unusual, unauthorized, or illegal activity
• Recommend suitable enhancements to improve cyber security performance
• Adopt the use of advanced analytic tools (Metaspioltable, Nessus, Qualys, Kali, Linux, Acunetix Slem Solution) to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities for managed clients
• Monitors User-identity by monitoring to avoid abuse of permissions by authorized system users
• Engage periodic in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (for example, simulating security breaches for client’s accounts
• Assist where appropriate with the specification, software installation, configuration, and commissioning of software, and provide ongoing technical support including liaison with suppliers to resolve issues, where required
• Assist with the testing of client’s own software products, communicating these results to help develop and upgrade product offerings
• Test and evaluate new software products from suppliers, informing internal decisions on adoption and appropriate sales and support strategies
• Testing of client’s own software products, communicating these results to help develop and upgrade product offerings
• Test incident response plans periodically to ensure response times and executed procedures are acceptable

Market Awareness:

• Review business and security environment to identify existing requirements
• Provide industry trends, opportunities for expansion, and projections of future company growth
• Research/evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them.
• Keep up to date with the latest cyber security trends and technology developments that could impact users’ vulnerability

Risk Management:

• Establish review procedures based on the client’s security risk management plan
• Rate and categorize potential security incidents
• Research/evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them effectively
• Plan for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches for managed clients
• Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption
• Investigate security alerts and provide an incident response for all assigned clients
• Monitors User-identity by monitoring to avoid abuse of permissions by authorized system users
• Evaluate response plans periodically to ensure relevance
• Identify threats and risks that are relevant to the client’s operations and systems
• Investigate security alerts and provide an incident response for all assigned clients

Strategic Partnerships & Relationship Management:

• Manage key stakeholders (internal and external) and optimize relationships for the best outcomes
• Build and maintain good client relationships and ensure a high level of client satisfaction
• Monitor both internal and external policy compliance
• Test and evaluate new software products from suppliers, informing internal decisions on adoption and appropriate sales and support strategies
• After Sales support services to all managed clients

Report & Analysis:

• Prepare cyber security performance report based on results from analysis and correlation of information security events

Qualifications

• First Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) qualification
• MBA in Information Systems
• CC

Experience:

• 5-8 years experience in Cyber Security.
• Excellent IT skills, including knowledge of computer networks, operating systems, software, hardware, and security.
• Good working knowledge of various security technologies such as network and application firewalls, host intrusion prevention, and anti-virus.
• A passion for cyber security and a keen interest in IT Ability to think like a hacker and anticipate hacker moves
• Desire to self-educate on the ever-changing landscape of cyber hacking tactics
• Experience in professional cybersecurity a plus

Technical Skills & Competencies

• Information systems
• Network security
• Acunetix Slem Solution
• Metaspioltable, Nessus, Qualys, Kali, Linux
• Vulnerability assessment
• Information assurance
• Penetration testing
• Intrusion detection
• Overall Technical skills
• Attention to detail
• A forensic approach to challenges
• Consulting
• Critical thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork & Cross-functional Collaboration.

Deadline: Not Specified.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title and location as the subject of the mail.