About the Role
Moniepoint is a leading financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building an innovative financial ecosystem for businesses. We are looking for an experienced Detection and Response Engineer to join our dynamic Incident Response team in Nigeria. This role is ideal for a cybersecurity professional ready to transition beyond first-line triage to own end-to-end incident investigations, enhance our Detection-as-Code pipeline, and drive down MTTD and MTTR metrics while protecting millions of users.
Key Responsibilities- Own escalated security incidents end-to-end, covering threat analysis, containment, evidence collection, scoping, and remediation.
- Write, test, and deploy detection rules using YARA-L or equivalent through the team's CI/CD Detection-as-Code pipeline.
- Conduct advanced threat hunting and reverse engineer malware to extract Indicators of Compromise and identify attack TTPs.
- Build and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation workflows to streamline alert triage and enrich security investigations.
- Collaborate with cloud security and infrastructure teams to resolve systemic vulnerabilities and close critical visibility gaps.
- Ensure all incident response and detection practices strictly align with NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, and PCI-DSS standards.
- Bachelor degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- 2 to 4 years of hands-on experience in SOC operations, incident response, or detection engineering.
- Demonstrated expertise writing or tuning detection rules within SIEM platforms using languages like YARA-L, KQL, CQL, or Sigma.
- Solid understanding of EDR platforms, log analysis, threat modeling, and MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript for automation and detection support work.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent written communication skills for comprehensive incident reporting.
- Competitive salary with comprehensive health insurance, pension contributions, and annual performance bonuses.
- Direct mentorship from industry-leading security experts within a collaborative, people-first company culture.
- Robust learning and development environment featuring regular technical talks, knowledge sharing, and training support.
- Exposure to unique, high-scale fintech security challenges across multi-cloud environments in emerging markets.