Moniepoint is a financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed.
Job Summary
We are actively seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support the Chief Information Security Officer in maintaining a secure and reliable cloud environment safeguarding the information assets of Moniepoint and also utilizing information and related technology to achieve the business objectives.
What you’ll get to do
- Creating cloud-based infrastructure and programs including implementing identity and access management and configuring cloud environments securely.
- Performing penetration testing and threat simulations to identify potential risks.
- Managing cryptography and encryption in the cloud. • Monitoring for and responding to incidents in the cloud environment.
- Keeping cloud infrastructure current, making recommendations, and continually improving cloud security technologies.
- Analyzing, designing, and developing programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities.
- Working with analysts, engineers, and data scientists across the organization to continually improve cyber resilience.
- To work collaboratively with wider Information Security team.
- To take part in post incident reviews and propose engineering resolution to improve results in any future recurrence.
To succeed in this role, we think you should have
- A degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related degree
- Relevant cloud certifications include: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK); Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Cloud Engineer Associate A minimum of 5 years’ experience in information security/technology risk reviews across enterprise operating systems, databases, banking applications and networks
- Experience with designing, implementing secure and highly available infrastructure, services, data storage in hybrid-cloud or commercial cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Hands of experience with a least 1 of the main cloud vendors (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience of Cloud Security Tools
- An excellent knowledge of Information Security principles and an understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK and other information security defence and intelligence frameworks.
- Experience in scripting languages like Python, Ruby-on-Rails, Javascript, building and consuming Application Program Interfaces (APIs)/micro-services
Advantage if you have;
- Keen eye for detail.
- Highly motivated, energetic and self-learner.
- Ability to work with little supervision and meet strict deadlines. • Must be results-oriented, setting high standards, and intent on making things happen.
- Takes the initiative within given parameters with freedom to act.
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