Detection and Response Engineer

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🕒 September 30, 2025

🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

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1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

Fintech • Banking • Payments

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem that provides seamless solutions in payments, banking, credit, and business management for over 10 million businesses and individuals. Operating as Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint powers the majority of Point of Sale (POS) transactions in the country. The company processes $17 billion monthly while ensuring profitable operations. With operations starting in 2019, Moniepoint continues to support businesses through its comprehensive financial services platform, making significant strides in financial inclusion across emerging markets.

📋 Description

• Own escalated security incidents end-to-end, including scoping, evidence collection, threat analysis, containment, and remediation • Analyze and reverse engineer malware, extract Indicators of Compromise, identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, and determine appropriate detection and response • Conduct threat hunting using detection content, threat intelligence, and hypothesis-driven analysis • Review and provide feedback on reported security incidents • Write, test, and deploy detection rules through the CI/CD Detection-as-Code pipeline • Tune existing detections to reduce false positives • Identify detection gaps and translate them into new rule proposals • Build and maintain SOAR playbooks and security automation, including AI-driven and agentic workflows • Participate in tabletop, purple-team, and threat-intel-driven simulation exercises • Translate threat intelligence into detection opportunities or hunting hypotheses • Collaborate with cloud security, infrastructure, and development teams to close systemic gaps • Maintain incident, detection-change, and threat-intelligence records and keep the playbook library current • Document detection logic and rule changes for peer review and audit • Align IR and detection engineering practices with PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF 2.0 • Stay current with cybersecurity trends and implement process improvements • Drive log source onboarding and ingestion health across enterprise applications and cloud environments • Lead threat modeling exercises and translate findings into detection rules and hunting hypotheses • Implement and maintain automated event enrichment pipelines

🎯 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 • Experience with SOAR platforms or building automation for triage/enrichment • Exposure to multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) and fintech/financial-sector threats • Foundational digital forensics or malware analysis experience • GCIH, CySA+, or equivalent IR/detection engineering certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• A clear path toward senior detection engineering and IR ownership • Direct mentorship from a Lead who owns the full detection-as-code and automation stack • Competitive compensation and benefits • Exposure to real-world fintech security challenges • The opportunity to build detection capability that protects systems impacting millions of users • Learning and development-focused environment • Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks • Attractive salary • Pension • Health insurance • Annual bonus • Other benefits