Offensive Security Analyst at Qore - Appzone Limited

Appzone Limited - Our client, Qore, is a funded, pan-African Fintech that provides the technology and operating system that powers fully digital and automated Banks across the African continent, and on a mission towards digitizing and fully automating all economic activities in Africa.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Offensive Security Analyst

Job ID: 222
Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Identify vulnerabilities and exposure within enterprise networks, systems, and applications.
• Lead or enable exploitation operations in support of organization objectives and target requirements.
• Perform technical (evaluation of technology) and nontechnical (evaluation of people and operations) risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas (e.g., local computing environment, network and infrastructure, enclave boundary, supporting infrastructure, and applications).
• Provide recommendations regarding the selection of cost-effective security controls to mitigate risk (e.g., protection of information, systems, and processes).
• Provide technical documents, incident reports, video recorded descriptions, findings from computer examinations, summaries, and other situational awareness information to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct and/or support authorized penetration testing on enterprise network assets.
• Perform penetration testing as required for new or updated applications.
• Review the security status of a system (including the effectiveness of security controls) on an ongoing basis to determine whether the risk remains acceptable.
• Provide recommendations for how to improve the controls based on test scenario findings.
• Create and conduct custom tabletop exercises.
• Partner with other teams on alert development to create new alerts and identify gaps in alerting.
• Analyze Threat Trends to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs)
• Develop your own test scenarios by performing threat hunts and ethical hack tests.
• Identify control gaps that allow threats to enter our network.
• Design and develop new tools/technologies related to cybersecurity.
• Develop specific cybersecurity countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies for systems and/or applications.
• Exploit network devices, security devices, and/or terminals or environments using various methods or tools.
• Create comprehensive exploitation strategies that identify exploitable technical or operational vulnerabilities.
• Test and evaluate locally developed tools for operational use.
• Identify functional- and security-related features to find opportunities for new capability development to exploit or mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Perform analysis for target infrastructure exploitation activities.
• Conduct exploitation of wireless computer and digital networks.
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, or a related discipline from a reputable university
• 3 years experience in a similar role, preferably in a Fintech
• Planning, organization, & problem-solving skills

Benefits
Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:

• Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
• Flexible work option (Hybrid)
• Group Life Insurance 
• Medical Insurance 
• Paid Lunch for onsite work
• Lifelong Learnings

Application Closing Date
22nd October, 2024.

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