Security Engagement Lead

7 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

**Purpose of the Job**:
The purpose of the Security Engagement Lead is to lead a team of cloud security engineers responsible for securing cloud-based digital platforms and plays an integral role in engaging with business units in order to ensure the organization's digital platforms are protected.

This role involvesanalyzing existing cloud security measures/controls and creating new and enhanced security methods. This role is part of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and security. The role is also responsible for the development and execution of large-scale cyber security initiatives and requires a professional with problem-solving abilities who can work in a fast-paced environment and has a clear passion for cloud security and cloud technologies.

**Job Objectives**:

- Lead and mentor a team of cloud security engineers.
- Provide assurance through collaboration with other stakeholders that all cloud and digital platforms meet the organization's security requirements.
- Recommend innovative technologies or other methods that will enhance the security of cloudbased environments.
- Develop standards, policies and procedures as well as best practices documentation.
- Translate security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to different audiences ranging from business leaders to engineers.
- Influence multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating cyber security controls.
- Automate security controls, data and processes to provide better metrics and operational support.
- Utilize cloud-based APIs when appropriate to write network/system level tools for securing cloud environments.
- Stay current on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and controls.
- Identify and implement new security technologies and best practices.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree/Diploma in IT, Information Systems, Systems Support or related field - (essential).
- Recognized industry certifications in cloud security, Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) -(essential).

**Experience**:

- +2 years’ experience in a team leadership capacity or similar with demonstrable experience leading and/or efficiently managing the delivery of security engineering engagements with key business and IT stakeholders to ensure highly secure enterprise-wide IT infrastructure - (essential).
- +5 years' experience in a cyber security role with hands-on expertise in cloud security - (essential)
- Solid experience with specific exposure to mentoring and coaching a team, providing technical leadership, and driving high performance within the context of security engineering - (essential).
- Practical experience with AWS WAF and/or Azure Frontdoor - (essential).
- Experience with open-source software security - (essential).

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Hands-on knowledge of automation and DevSecOps, microservices, Kubernetes, docker, etc. - (highly beneficial)
- Good understanding of software development principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and deployment orchestration - (highly beneficial).
- Robust microservices programming (AWS Lambda, Docker, etc.) - (highly beneficial)
- Good understanding and exposure to cloud standards, architecture, and models - (essential).

**Applicant Feedback Policy**:

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