Cybersecurity Engineer

We invite applications from suitably qualified, skilled, experienced, and competent individuals for the following position:

CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER

The Cybersecurity Engineer (CSE) shall report to the Network and Infrastructure Manager and Systems Manager on Network & infrastructure issues and Systems issues respectively. S/he shall assume the core responsibility to create, implement and monitor defensive security systems and features within the education network.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organization’s data, systems and networks
2. Troubleshooting security problems
3. Responding to all system and/or network security breaches
4. Ensuring that the organization’s data and infrastructure are protected by enabling the appropriate security controls
5. Participating in the change management process
6. Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities
7. Developing policies and procedures for securing systems, data and networks
8. Investigating security incidents
9. Ensuring that security policies are adhered to at all times
10. Being the first line of client help desk support and pro-actively engaging clients on security issues.
11. Organizing cybersecurity training workshops for client institutions.
12. Offering direct engineering assistance on cybersecurity to client institutions.
13. Any other relevant duties assigned by MAREN management from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience

A suitable candidate shall have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity or related fields from a recognized institution.
• Knowledge of IP networks and popular operating systems.
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments.
• Hands on experience with modern security tools such as SIEM, SOAR, XDR, SAST/DAST etc
• Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Solid knowledge of modern programing languages such as Java, PHP and their trending development environments/frameworks
• Solid knowledge of analysis of data sets preferably system logs and unstructured data.
• Solid knowledge of intrusion detection and prevention systems.
• Knowledge of data recovery tools and procedures.

Term of Office

The CSE shall be on a 3-year contract renewable based on performance.

REMUNERATION

The positions above come with a competitive compensation and benefits package in accordance with MAREN’s existing structure of benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and contact details of three traceable referees to the following link: https://forms.gle/RJShuWRWRnFXAY2h9

Applications should be received by noon of 05 September, 2025