Our Client is the largest and the first licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa. They are dedicated to offering innovative solutions in the African stablecoins space. Our client is committed to making stablecoins accessible and understandable for everyone, providing their customers with secure and user-friendly platforms for their financial transactions.

Job Type: Full-time l Remote

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline
AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certified
CISSP or other industry recognized cyber security certification preferred
5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on cyber security
3+ years of SOC/IR experience, including incident response triage, threat hunting, digital forensics, and configuring alerting rules
5+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on cyber security
3+ years of SOC/IR experience, including incident response triage, threat hunting, digital forensics, and configuring alerting rules
Experience working within a Security Operations Center (SOC), including the ability to build purposeful dashboards, rules, and monitors that contribute to effective threat detection and response.
Experience with AWS Serverless architecture and resources.
Experience with AWS Kubernetes.
Experience working in a fully cloud-based fintech company.
Demonstrate proficiency in AWS Security with hands-on experience in SQS, SNS, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudTrail, and Step Functions.
In-depth knowledge of security concepts such as cyber-attacks and techniques, threat vectors, risk management, incident management, etc.
Utilize and incorporate MITRE ATTACK Framework and Cyber Kill Chain
Working knowledge of security technologies such as: SIEM, EDR, FW, AD, IPS, SOAR, WAF, CTI, Application and Email Defense, Sandbox
Utilize Datadog as both a SOC and incident management platform, leveraging its capabilities to enhance security operations.
Proficiency in incident management, highlighting hands-on experience in handling security incidents from identification to resolution.
Experience in threat modeling for AWS services' infrastructure and SaaS applications in general,
Experience in adhering to compliance standards, specifically ISO27001 and SOC2
Fluency in spoken and written English
Ability to perform deep dive investigations from start to finish of a security incident
Capability in securing a data pipeline, emphasizing your expertise in monitoring for suspicious activities and implementing effective security controls throughout the data life cycle.
Demonstrate a self-starter mentality, collaboration skills, sense of urgency, strong attention to detail, and ability to operate in a customer-oriented environment
Exhibit a proactive mindset, showcasing your ability to identify problems, gaps, and actively research potential solutions and initiatives to enhance security measures.
Team player open to assisting other teams and team members within a startup environment
Capable of assuming responsibility for assigned tasks and seeing them through to completion, while also adept at extracting new projects or lessons learned from the undertaken work.
Proficient in establishing a systematic approach to sharing knowledge with team members operating within the same functional area.

Responsibilities

Perform real-time alert monitoring across our cloud Infrastructure and business systems
Swiftly triage and respond to threats
Initiate and track complex, multithreaded investigations to resolution
Timely support for all Identity and Access Management requests
Stay up to date with and report on information security issues and emerging trends
Integrate and share information effectively with other analysts and teams
Creation of reports, dashboards, KPIs, metrics for SOC operations
Assist security operations and engineering team where needed
Develop documentation and operational playbooks, as well as suggest alert enhancements to improve detection capability
Identify gaps in processes and procedures, defining solutions, escalating to appropriate teams, and supporting implementation to promote consistency in service delivery.
Develop and integrate monitoring and detective capabilities through technologies such as DLP, MDM etc.
Develop SIEM use cases for monitoring, investigative techniques, and health checks for optimization and assurance of logging all required systems
Monitor the functioning of security systems to ensure the system operates in conformance with expected performance and specifications
Evaluate SOC operating procedures for operational efficiencies and updates to monitoring rules and use cases
Develop ways to optimize or automate processes
Create and modify security SIEM dashboards to clearly identify scope of findings, or monitor activity
Provide expert analysis investigative support of large scale and complex security incidents, and in many cases identify incidents for which a technical detection may not be available.
Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm each and every day to motivate your team to be the best they can in every aspect of what they do
Celebrate the success of others by recognising the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
Align your values with the Mission, Vision and Values of our clients team
Be a role model for the our clients organizational culture by creating a positive impact at every touchpoint with people, with every word you say or put in print and everything you do
Communicate in a fashion that is respectful and well understood
Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
Build and utilize working relationships with internal business partners across the organization and external business contacts

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