Cybersecurity Engineer at IT Horizons Limited
IT Horizons Ltd is a company with diverse talents and skills on existing, recent and upcoming technologies worldwide.
We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies especially information communication technologies (ICT).
Job Summary
- The Cyber Security Engineer at IT Horizons will play a crucial role in safeguarding IT Horizons and her client’s technical systems by defining, operating, and enhancing security controls and monitoring systems.
- This hands-on position requires collaboration with the Dev and CloudOps teams to secure production and corporate environments.
- The Cyber Security Engineer will also be responsible for threat and vulnerability management and work with technical teams on remediation activities.
- This is an excellent opportunity for an individual passionate about cybersecurity to make a significant impact in a dynamic and growing organisation.
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Responsibilities
- Operate and Enhance Security Monitoring Tools: Utilize and improve IT Horizons and client security monitoring tools to provide valuable intelligence to the business.
- Support pre-sales engineers to create proposal documents, Bills of Material, and other technical
documents in response to RFQ, RFP, etc from ITH client - Manage the design, implementation and documentation of security systems (NextGen Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems, Web Filtering, Application Firewall, Security Information and Information Management
- Automate Audits and Monitoring: Automate the auditing and monitoring of technical systems to minimize manual activities within the security program.
- Collaborate with CloudOps/Development/IT Support: Interface with these teams on findings and drive them to a conclusion as directed by the Head of Cyber Security.
- Assist with Training: Provide support in training initiatives to enhance the cybersecurity knowledge within the organisation.
- Compliance Support: Assist with the administrative process for current and future compliance standards.
- Conduct Audits: Support the Security Lead in conducting audits of IT Horizons and her client systems, processes, and third parties.
- Acquisition Integration: Take a lead role in the integration of newly acquired entities into IT Horizons and her client’s security framework.
Skills and Experience
- Strong communication skills
- Experience in Vulnerability Management, including configuring, running, and analysing scans (Nessus preferred)
- Experience in Web Vulnerability Management (OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25)
- Experience in SIEM configuration, analysis, and reporting
- Experience with IPS/IDS and Data Loss Prevention tools, configuration, and analysis
- Experience with threat analysis and reporting
Desirable Skills
- Community-recognised security certificates such as CEH, CISM, SANS (GSEC, GCIA, GCED, GCIH), CISSP
- Minimum of 4 years experience
- Exposure to compliance standards such as ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and/or PCI compliance
- Exposure to DevOps/Agile development methodologies
- Incident Response/Forensics experience, including evidence/artefact preservation
- Experience integrating security checks and validation into a CI/CD pipeline
- Amazon AWS/Azure experience
- Data analytics/reporting experience
- Penetration Testing experience.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.