Cybersecurity Analyst · Security Engineer · Lagos, Nigeria · Open to Remote

Yetunde Duze.

She builds secure infrastructure
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Cybersecurity Analyst at Pluto Cloud Computing, architecting PKI systems, identity federation, distributed firewall policies, and detection pipelines. Building open-source security tooling under Nullfront. Working toward a future engineering brand, Covenix.

About

Yetunde Duze is a Cybersecurity Analyst functioning as a Security Engineer at Pluto Cloud Computing Nigeria Limited - a cloud provider in its infrastructure build-out phase. This means she is not simply reviewing policies; she is designing and building the security architecture from the ground up: PKI, NSX-T distributed firewall, Entra ID identity federation, vulnerability management, and SIEM logging pipelines.

Her path to security is not conventional. She holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology from Ajayi Crowther University and spent several years in healthcare administration and customer relations - roles that sharpened her precision, documentation discipline, and ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences. These are not soft additions to her CV; they are transferable competencies she applies daily in a field where a miscommunicated finding can be as dangerous as a missed one.

Outside of work, she builds independent security tooling under her GitHub identity Nullfront, and is working toward her longer-term engineering brand, Covenix. She is currently learning German and French - because in security, understanding context across borders matters.

Her approach: understand the threat model first, then design the control. Document everything. Leave environments better than you found them.

Beyond the terminal

Yetunde swims, reads adventure novels, and watches horror films. Her favourite novel is Scorpion Shards by Neal Shusterman - she loves the thrill of piecing together a puzzle from scattered clues, figuring out who did what and why before the story reveals it. It is, she notes, not entirely unlike threat hunting.

Core Competencies

  • PKI and Certificate Lifecycle Management
  • VMware NSX-T Distributed Firewall
  • Entra ID / Identity Federation (SAML, OIDC)
  • Vulnerability Assessment (OpenVAS / GVM)
  • SIEM and Logging Architecture
  • FortiGate Perimeter Hardening
  • Cloud Security (vSphere / vCD / Azure)
  • Security Documentation and Policy

Leadership

  • Led security workstreams across a 7-person tech team
  • Coordinated council affairs and cross-department resolution at NIM
  • Presented at NIM Knowledge Sharing Session - all-staff audience
  • Independently managed full security programme gate structure
  • Documentation and decision records held to legal-protection standard

Languages

  • English - fluent
  • German - learning (A1)
  • French - learning (A1)

Portfolio Projects

Open-source security tooling and infrastructure built independently

Cloud-Native Detection and Response

Cloud-Native Detection and Response Pipeline - Jirrix

Cloud-native detection and response pipeline - provisioned as code, attacked, defended, and AI-triaged from a single repository.

OpenTofuSigmaGrafanaGemini AI
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Security Automation

Identity and Network Security Lab - Wardenix

Identity, endpoint, and network security platform with Shuffle SOAR integration. All 12 phases complete - from architecture to deployment.

Shuffle SOAREntra IDWazuhPython
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Cloud Security

Azure Security Engineering Project

End-to-end Azure security engineering project covering identity, endpoint protection, threat detection, and incident response.

AzureEntra IDDefenderSentinel
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Certifications

ISC2 CC - Certified in Cybersecurity Active
Cisco Introduction to Cybersecurity 2025
Cisco Networking Basics 2025
TryHackMe SEC101 - Introduction to Cybersecurity 2025
NIM AMNIM - Associate, Nigerian Institute of Management 2025
University of Virginia Design Thinking: Insights to Inspiration 2025
Microsoft SC-500 - Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate Exam scheduled

Full credential record on Credly →

Work Experience

Current

Cybersecurity Analyst

Pluto Cloud Computing Nigeria Limited · Lagos

Architecting security infrastructure from the ground up for a cloud provider in build-out phase - PKI, identity federation, distributed firewall, vulnerability management, and SIEM logging.

VMware NSX-TFortiGateEntra IDOpenVAS
Portfolio

Independent Security Engineer

Nullfront (GitHub) · Remote

Building open-source detection and response tooling, SOC platforms, and security automation pipelines under the Nullfront identity.

WazuhPythonSOAR

Work with me

Open to security consulting, freelance infrastructure reviews, PKI design, and collaborative open-source projects - especially work involving cloud security, identity architecture, or detection engineering. Available globally for fully remote roles, with an async-first, documentation-driven work style that supports EU and US time zone collaboration.

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Security Review

Infrastructure hardening, PKI design, identity federation architecture

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Detection Engineering

SIEM pipeline design, threat detection rules, SOC platform setup

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Security Documentation

Policy writing, compliance mapping, architecture documentation

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Remote Collaboration

Available for fully remote engagements across EU and US time zones. Async-first, documentation-driven work style.

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