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Security Engineer Jobs in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Mind Detect
Title: Security Engineer
Company: Mind Detect
Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Our cutting-edge African payments orchestration platform is searching for a Security Engineer to join their team in either Cape Town (hybrid) or SA (remote). The Security Engineer owns the business’ defensive posture end-to-end: building detection and response capabilities, hardening how software is shipped, and using AI to stay ahead of threats at speed. This includes building new security features, driving remediation processes and responding to security incidents.
Given the fact that this is a younger company, the environment is highly dynamic and fast-paced. Your working mentality must be one of adaptability, resilience and passion. This is a fantastic company to work for with truly vast amounts of personal and professional upside.
Responsibilities
*Secure our data, endpoints and networks
*Ongoing preparation, monitoring, and response to security incidents
*Build, maintain, enhance and oversee SIEM solutions.
*Risk management:
- Conduct pen-testing and threat hunting to find weaknesses in defence systems to improve overall security
- Design, build and use automations (including AI) to detect threats and drive the remediation processes.
- Work alongside engineering teams to ensure architecture and design are secure, and ensure implementation is correct.
*Standards, policies, and practices:
- Design, develop and improve internal security standards and policies
- Contribute to security requirements for relevant industry standards (PCI, ISO 27001, etc)
*Plan, conduct and manage internal security audit processes
*Conduct diligence on third-party vendors and provide recommendations to management
*Consult with and mentor staff members on security-related matters
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM subject ideally from a top-tier university (preferred)
- 8+ years total experience
- 4+ years in a security-related role
- 4+ years in a software engineering or devops/platform role
- Highly familiar and comfortable with AI for coworking, coding and automation integration in order to augment and speed up delivery based on their own deep technical understanding.
- The ability to communicate clearly in both written and verbal manner.
- Strong attention to detail – for example, spotting a misconfigured IAM policy buried in Terraform or an access token that shouldn’t be there.
- Clear understanding of security controls and requirements & ability to communicate why security controls are required to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working with standards such as ISO 27001, PCI, CIS Top 18, OWASP, etc
- OSCP, CISSP, CISM, SSCP or similar qualifications are advantageous
Benefits
- Equity in the business
- Generous leave/solid work-life balance
- Great remuneration package
- Plenty of perks
- Generous budget
- Strong professional development
- An open, international and inclusive culture
- Fast growth company
- Advanced equipment/technology
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This position is open to people already eligible for work in South Africa
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