Detection and Response Engineer

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About This Role

Moniepoint Inc. is a financial ecosystem founded in 2019 that offers banking, payments, credit, and management tools to millions of individuals and businesses. As a major merchant acquirer in Nigeria, the organization processes billions of dollars monthly through Point of Sale transactions while maintaining profitability. Moniepoint is currently hiring a Detection and Response Engineer to join the incident response department on an on-site basis. This position is designed for security…

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Manage escalated security incidents through all phases including scoping, evidence gathering, threat analysis, containment, and remediation.
• Reverse engineer malware to analyze behavior, extract indicators of compromise, identify attacker techniques, and establish proper responses.
• Perform threat hunting activities utilizing existing detection content, threat intelligence, and hypothesis-driven analysis.
• Write, test, and deploy detection rules through the CI/CD Detection-as-Code pipeline.
• Refine existing detection logic to decrease false positives based on investigative findings.
• Build and maintain security orchestration, automation, and response playbooks including AI-driven and agentic workflows.
• Participate in simulation exercises such as tabletop, purple-team, and threat-intel scenarios.
• Partner with cloud security, infrastructure, and development groups to remediate systemic security vulnerabilities.
• Onboard log sources and oversee ingestion health across cloud and enterprise applications.
• Conduct threat modeling exercises for critical infrastructure and translate results into detection rules.

Requirements

• Possess two to four years of practical experience in detection engineering, security operations center operations, or incident response.
• Demonstrate hands-on proficiency writing or tuning detection rules in a SIEM using rule languages like YARA-L, KQL, CQL, or Sigma.
• Show solid familiarity with EDR platforms, SIEM technologies, log analysis, and end-to-end incident investigation.
• Have a working knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and its application to detection coverage.
• Utilize scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript for automation and detection support tasks.
• Maintain strong written communication skills for producing incident reports and documentation.

Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or possess equivalent practical experience.
• Bring experience working with SOAR platforms or developing automation tools for alert triage and enrichment.
• Have exposure to multi-cloud setups including AWS and GCP, as well as financial sector threats.
• Possess foundational experience in digital forensics or malware analysis.
• Hold professional certifications such as CySA+, GCIH, or equivalent incident response and detection engineering credentials.

Core Skills

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including an attractive salary, annual bonus, and pension plan.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Direct mentorship from leadership managing the detection-as-code and automation stack.
• Opportunities for technical learning through knowledge sharing, training sessions, and internal talks.

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