Associate Threat Intelligence Analyst

We are looking for an Associate Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our Threat Intelligence Team; which serves to collect, analyze and produce actionable intelligence, leveraged by teams to understand risk and make decisions regarding viability in selling M-KOPA products across different regions.

As an Analyst, you would be responsible for discovering, analyzing, and vetting relevant mobile device cyber threat information to produce actionable intelligence for teams.

Overview

This role would involve detecting patterns of ongoing intrusion and intrusion attempts across M-KOPA products and predict future IOCs. Performing all source and open-source research and analysis on matters of M-KOPA product targeting and assisting in investigations.

Collaboration

We strive for collaboration and teamwork therefore you would be working together with other team members to prioritize threat research and threat hunts based on observed threat activity on M-KOPA products. Analyzing data from approved sources and raw intelligence, and structure them to validate intelligence collection requirements.

Additionally, you would be working closely and sharing information with the Application Security team, Global Fraud team and General management regarding any significant findings.

Expertise

Our expectation would be that you have adequate experience producing threat intelligence, tracking cyber threats and threat hunting with a focus on attacker TTPs. Additionally, having solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond model and other relevant frameworks coupled with good knowledge in structured analytic techniques would be necessary for success in this role.

We are particularly interested in someone with previous experience in an investigation or intelligence type role, and a good understanding and/or experience using CTI tools to structure and analyze intelligence, e.g. Maltego, MISP

Why M-KOPA

We are a diverse and inclusive company that empowers our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.

This is a fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as the UK, Europe and Africa. You will be reporting to the Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer.

If the above is of interest to you, please apply and join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Recognized twice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing company (2022 and 2023) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 , we've served over 3 million customers, unlocking $1 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.