Information Security/SOC Analyst at Cellulant

Cellulant is Africa’s top-ranked firm for payments and transfers according to the 2016 Fintech Awards. The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) both regulate and insure us as PPISPs (Payment Platform Infrastructure Service Providers).

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.

Deadline: Not Specified.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should Click Here to apply online