Cyber Security Analyst / Penetration Tester at Uniccon Group

Uniccon Group is the home of innovative and customizable tech products to meet your needs. We combine world-class expertise, experience, and modern tools to scale up your productivity. Valuing and collaborating for the best services have kept us ahead of the market. Individuals, SMEs, organisation, and government agencies achieve more with us.

Uniccon Group owns Africa’s leading hub for STEM research, training, and solutions (STEMFocus). Research is the bedrock of our innovative services in the marketplace, payment gateway, workflow optimization, financial intel, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and e-learning products. We are futuristic and leading with METAVERSE and NFTs in Africa. The operations extend to Agro-commodities processing and export, fashion brands, and general contracting business. It oversees operations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. The products are innovative, and customizable to meet market needs. Unicorn Group is a key player in their respective industries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cyber Security Analyst / Penetration Tester

Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time

Job Overview

• You will join a dynamic team of world-class security experts to conduct application security/penetration tests of our internal/external web, mobile and web service applications, leveraging both manual techniques as well as automated tools in order to uncover and report security vulnerabilities that exist.
• You are required to be knowledgeable with business risks associated with common security vulnerabilities and be able to effectively communicate security vulnerabilities to application developers and/or senior managers who may have little to no experience with these vulnerabilities.
• The ability to work independently in a very large scale and enterprise setting is a great skill to possess. Previous experience as an application security professional with a large institution is a plus.

Required Qualifications

• B.Sc / M.Sc in Computer Science / Information Security / Information Technology (or relevant work experience in a large scale IT environment)
• One or more of the following certifications: CISSP, GWAPT, CISM, CEH, OSCP, CCIE Security
• Completion of NYSC is mandatory.
• Work Experience: 1-3 years

Competencies/Skills:

• Experience conducting vulnerability assessments, code reviews and penetration tests against web/mobile application technologies, APIs, platforms and languages to find flaws and exploits (e.g. SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Clickjacking, Authentication/Authorization, Privilege Escalation, Business Logic Bypass, OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25 etc.)
• Knowledge of network and web related protocols/technologies.
• Ability to demonstrate manual web application testing experience. Experience with web application vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. IBM AppScan, HP Webinspect, Acunetix, NTO Spider, Burp suite Pro, Netsparker etc.).
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques (e.g. web application proxies, packet capture analysis software, browser extensions, advanced penetration testing Linux distributions, static source code analyzers, SoapUI, ReadyApi etc.)
• Experience of penetration testing on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android
• Intermediate programming/debugging skills with proficiency in one or more of the following:  Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, PHP, ASP.NET, AJAX, JSON, Objective-C
• Expert-level experience and very detailed technical knowledge in at least 3 of the following areas: general information security, security engineering, application architecture, authentication and security protocols, application session management, applied cryptography, common communication protocols, mobile frameworks, single sign-on technologies, exploit automation platforms and RESTful web services
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply critical thinking to a variety of situations
• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python, Perl, Shell script, JavaScript).
• The Ideal candidate Must reside in Abuja.

Application Closing Date
20th March, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.