Cybersecurity Analyst · BcKash Cooperative / Microfinance Bank
Nigeria
CurrentJun 2024 — Present
Promoted from Junior Cybersecurity Analyst. Leads daily monitoring, detection tuning, incident response, and cloud infrastructure security across the SOC.
- Initiated, coordinated, and led the migration of production application infrastructure from outsourced developers to an in-house AWS environment — owning cloud deployment, configuration, security, and operational readiness.
- Coordinated the migration of the production MongoDB environment and domain infrastructure in-house, cutting recurring infrastructure and outsourcing costs by approximately $10,000 annually.
- Designed and owned application security architecture and defense-in-depth controls across application, identity, network, infrastructure, and data layers — partnering with developers and stakeholders to ship secure, scalable production solutions.
- Investigated a coordinated web-server attack involving 20,000+ automated requests, using log correlation and traffic analysis to validate containment and confirm system integrity.
- Performed malware analysis with FLARE VM, REMnux, Procmon, Wireshark, and YARA to analyze suspicious files, extract behavioral indicators and IOCs, and support threat investigations.
- Conducted vulnerability assessments and remediation using Nessus and Nmap, prioritizing CVEs and CVSS scores to reduce the attack surface by 30%.
- Led incident response for critical security events using Splunk and case-management workflows, reducing mean time to containment by 30%.
- AWS
- MongoDB Atlas
- Splunk
- Nessus
- Nmap
- Wireshark
- FLARE VM
- REMnux
- YARA