Cybersecurity specialist

The project

A national technology park in Cabo Verde, inaugurated in May 2025. It has two campuses, a data center and a disaster recovery site. More than twenty companies from several countries work there for international clients, and more than 300 young professionals are employed. The park protects the data and services of foreign clients. It needs a specialist who secures the systems, tracks risks and keeps services running.

Your role

• Assess risks, check access and backups, and organize the incident response with the operations teams.
• Monitor security alerts and analyze suspicious events.
• Manage vulnerabilities: find them, rank them by severity and track fixes with the operations teams.
• Define and enforce access rules: permissions, passwords, multi-factor authentication.
• Write and test the incident response plan and the recovery plan.
• Train staff and hosted companies in good security practices.
• Prepare audits and compliance with data protection rules.
• Deliver a monthly security report to management.

Your profile

You have run a security audit or handled an incident. You can describe it to a non-technical manager and propose practical measures. You have protected a hosted infrastructure, a data center or a company network. You share your knowledge with young teams and work in trust with the operations teams.

Requirements

Languages

Professional Portuguese and English.

Education

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, IT or networks, or a 3-year degree with equivalent experience. Equivalent Cape Verdean degrees accepted. Certification is a plus: Security+, CEH, CISM, CISSP or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.

Software

Preferred: Security monitoring (SIEM), vulnerability scanner, firewall, identity and access management, encryption, Linux.