Security Operations Engineer
InfoSec
- Company: InfoSec
- Location: Remote, Nigeria
- Salary: Not stated
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
Job overview
The Security Operations Engineer is the operational backbone of the Security Operations Centre (SOC). It is a fully remote, hands-on, technical role that owns three tightly integrated domains: security alert design, triaging, and automated response; cloud security posture management across EKS and AWS environments; and posture tracking and reporting.
Requirements
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and across different time zones
- 3 to 5 years of experience in security operations, cloud security, or infrastructure security engineering
- Hands-on AWS security experience: IAM policy design, virtual network architecture, cloud-native security services, CloudTrail, GuardDuty
- Kubernetes and EKS security experience: pod security standards, network policy enforcement, workload identity, image scanning
- SIEM operations: alert triage, detection rule authoring (signature-based and behavioural), log analysis and correlation
- Vulnerability management: CSPM tooling, risk-based prioritisation, CVSS scoring, SLA framework operation
- IaC security: ability to read and review Terraform or CloudFormation for misconfigurations
- Incident response: investigation, containment, and post-incident reporting
- Experience in a regulated environment (FinTech, payments, banking, or crypto preferred)
- Ability to author and tune detection rules without relying on vendor-supplied defaults
- Structured written communication for triage reports, post-incident write-ups, and stakeholder metrics
- Ability to coordinate remediation across engineering teams without direct authority
- Comfort operating in a lean team where domain boundaries are broader than in large enterprise security functions
- Professional certifications: AWS Security Specialty (highly valued)
- Experience with CSPM and SIEM platforms: Datadog, Wiz, Orca Security
- Experience with secrets management platforms: AWS Secrets Manager
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, DORA
- Scripting ability in Python or Bash for detection-as-code and operational automation
- Experience with SOAR or workflow automation platforms
- Understanding of cryptocurrency or blockchain security considerations
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
- AI tooling familiarity and interest in applying AI to operational workflows