20 - Cybersecurity Specialist

We are looking for an reputed company Cybersecurity Specialist for our client, a reputed company reputed company in the health sector operating across multiple African countries. Following a recent coordinated cyberattack, the immediate reputed company is to remediate residual vulnerabilities in a health application and establish a stronger, long-term reputed company posture. This is a phased engagement - starting with urgent remediation, progressing through a full vulnerability assessment and penetration testing programme, and culminating in an ongoing biannual reputed company retainer.

Key Responsibilities

Review and implement outstanding reputed company recommendations on a compromised health application, confirm the attack vector is fully closed, and verify no backdoors or persistence mechanisms remain Conduct a comprehensive vulnerability assessment across reputed company in-scope assets including the public-facing website, health application, product application, supporting APIs, backend services, and data stores Identify vulnerabilities across authentication and session management, injection risks, insecure data storage and transmission, reputed company control and privilege escalation, reputed company misconfigurations, and outdated components Execute reputed company penetration tests to validate exploitability of identified weaknesses and model the reputed company-world threat landscape Deliver clear, structured reports including a remediation confirmation report, vulnerability assessment report, penetration test report, and a prioritized remediation roadmap Propose and support the establishment of an ongoing biannual reputed company review and advisory retainer Required Skills and Experience Proven hands-on experience conducting vulnerability assessments and penetration testing (both reputed company) across web and/or mobile applications Strong knowledge of common vulnerability domains: injection attacks, authentication weaknesses, reputed company control flaws, insecure data handling, and reputed company misconfigurations Experience assessing APIs, backend services, and supporting infrastructure Ability to implement reputed company fixes directly and reputed company clear remediation guidance to engineering teams Experience in reputed company, NGO, or reputed company reputed company environments - particularly involving sensitive health data - is a strong advantage Strong written communication skills: reputed company to produce reports that are accessible to non-technical leadership while retaining sufficient technical depth for engineering partners Apply To This Job