Principal Security Engineer

Recruiter:

Open Source (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

CPT001950/SM

Date posted:

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

JOB SUMMARY:
A large company is looking to employ a Principal Security Engineer with security solutions experience to work on exciting projects in the Cape Town area. If you are interested in working with a group of like minded individuals, please apply!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essentials Requirements:

Planning, designing and deploying security solutions
Collaborating with solutions architects
Maintaining and supporting complex security environments
Troubleshooting and resolving complex security issues
Assesses the risk of new vulnerabilities and zero-day threats and report recommendations
Customer engagement is conducted at a high professional level, with presence required on major incident bridges for the most complex technical Must demonstrate the ability to delegate lower complexity tasks to engineers and technicians. Provide quality assurance to team members.
The individual demonstrates excellent administration ability in the form of proposal and report writing, and general project documentation development.
The principal engineer is expected to take leadership for relevant technologies according to his/her specialisation
The individual displays a good understanding of business At this level, individuals own high complexity design work, with guidance to the design expected. Mentorship of engineers is expected.
Work overtime as required
Assist with standby as required
Performing other tasks as defined, planned, and approved by leadership
Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging threats, vulnerabilities and technology
Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others
Work independently, with general direction from the client, stakeholders, team lead, or senior manager, to perform operational tasks to resolve all escalated incidents/requests in a timely manner within the agreed Timely and consistent updates of tickets with resolution tasks performed.
Proactively identify, investigate, analyse issues and errors prior to or when they occur and log all such incidents in a timely Capture all required and relevant information for immediate resolution.
Provide forth level support to all escalated incidents, requests and identify the root cause of incidents and problems, respond to tickets where third line engineer teams were unable to fix the problem. Share such knowledge, to resolve issues, document them, and push the knowledge down to other engineers.
Communicate with other teams and clients for extending Act as emergency support contact as needed, for critical client and business-impacting issues
Support, track, and document change implementation
Proactively identify, contribute, implement and work with automation teams for effort optimization and automating routine tasks
Performs quality audits, covering process, service experience, ticket updates, etc as required

Qualification/Technical Knowledge:

SIEM/SOC technologies
Vulnerability Management
Threat/risk analysis
Firewall/IPS/IDS
XDR Endpoint protection
Penetration testing
Ethical Hacking
Azure Cloud security Certifications (beneficial)
Up to date and relevant ITIL certification
CISSP, CEH, CISSP-ISSAP, TOGAF, CASP+
Microsoft Azure certified Architect

Required Experience:

Minimum of 8 years information security related experience
Experience in security architecture methodologies, tools and enablers
Hands-on experience with implementation and monitoring of various IT Security solutions
Excellent understanding of IT operational processes and controls including project deployments
Excellent understanding of regulatory requirements facing the IT environment (PCI DSS, POPIA, GDPR).
Must be persuasive and be able to communicate cybersecurity related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff
Be able to map business needs to technology solutions
Solid understanding of security risks and preventative controls
Understand IaaS/PaaS/SaaS security deployments, native cloud security tools
CASB/CSPM/CWPP capabilities
Substantial managed services experience
Excellent knowledge and experience in ticketing tools, preferably 4Me /Service Now
Worked in multiple large Global Enterprise client outsourcing projects
Vendor management experience

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