- Company: Moniepoint Incorporated
- Location: Remote, Nigeria
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform serving over 600,000 businesses. We are seeking an experienced Detection and Response Engineer to join our Incident Response team. This role is ideal for a professional who has moved beyond first-line triage and wants to lead investigations from start to finish. You will use your findings to improve our detection capabilities and automate response workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own escalated security incidents end-to-end, including scoping, evidence collection, threat analysis, containment, and remediation.
- Analyze and reverse engineer malware to extract Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
- Conduct threat hunting using existing detection content, threat intelligence, and hypothesis-driven analysis.
- Write, test, and deploy detection rules (YARA-L or equivalent) through the team’s CI/CD Detection-as-Code pipeline.
- Tune existing detections to reduce false positives based on incident and hunting findings.
- Build and maintain SOAR playbooks and security automation, including AI-driven workflows, to automate alert triage and enrich investigations.
- Work cross-functionally with cloud security, infrastructure, and development teams to close systemic gaps.
- Ensure IR and detection engineering practices align with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF 2.0.
- Drive log source onboarding and ingestion health across enterprise applications and cloud environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
- 2 – 4 years of experience in incident response, SOC operations, or detection engineering.
- Demonstrated experience writing or tuning detection rules in a SIEM (Google SecOps, or similar) using a rule language such as YARA-L, CQL, KQL, or Sigma.
- Solid experience with SIEM and EDR platforms, log analysis, and end-to-end incident triage/investigation.
- Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and how it maps to detection coverage.
- Comfortable with Python, JavaScript, or a similar scripting language for automation and detection support work.
- Strong written communication skills for incident reports and detection documentation.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online.
