Technical Security Engineer

SUMMARY:
Join the team at Barefoot Cyber!

Barefoot Cyber is a partner at IT Naledi Solutions.

If you're ready to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you: employment@itnaledi.co.za

See below for details on this exciting opportunity:  
 
Position Overview 

The Technical Security Engineer supports security operations across Managed Services, SOC, GRC, Professional Services, and Pre-Sales. The role focuses on deploying and maintaining security tooling, improving client environments, and ensuring consistent, efficient security operations.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities

Security Engineering & Implementation

• Deploy, configure, and maintain SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and vulnerability management tools.

• Implement and optimise security controls.

• Maintain secure configurations and hardening standards (CIS, NIST).

• Integrate security tools using APIs, log pipelines, and automation.

• Deploy and maintain agents for Tenable, Wazuh, Trend Micro, Commvault, and other platforms.

• Validate log integrations into the SIEM.

• Troubleshoot agent, endpoint, and client-side issues.

• Identify and activate underused tooling features

• Run POCs and recommend improvements.

• Engineer and deploy honeypots.

• Run vulnerability scans and coordinate remediation.

• Prioritise risks and track remediation progress across all workloads.

• Maintain patch and vulnerability visibility.

• Review designs for alignment with security standards.

• Implement segmentation, secure architecture, and zero-trust principles.

• Guide secure deployments across applications, endpoints, and cloud platforms.

• Send reports to clients on a weekly basis

• Improve efficiency through automation and process optimisation.

• Support alignment between SOC and Managed Services.

• Maintain documentation, SOPs, diagrams, and configuration records.

• Support compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, POPIA, GDPR, HIPAA).

• Ensure systems meet internal and regulatory requirements.

• Provide technical support to SOC analysts.

• Support GRC with technical components of assessments.

• Assist Sales and Pre-Sales with technical evaluations.

• Act as a shared technical resource across all security teams.

• Experience with EDR/XDR and endpoint security tools.

• Knowledge of firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and network protocols.

• Strong Windows, Linux, and cloud security understanding.

• Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation.

• Identity and access management experience (Azure AD, MFA, SSO).

• Experience with endpoint deployment and configuration tools.

• Understanding SIEM ingestion and log pipelines.

• Ability to diagnose agent, integration, and endpoint issues.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical thinking.

• Able to work under pressure during incidents.

• Detail loriented with a focus on stability and secure operations.

• Strong written and verbal communication.

• Proactive, autonomous, and able to improve processes.

• Effective collaborator across multiple teams.

• The processing of your personal information and sharing it with third parties for verification.
• The exercising of your rights provided for by POPIA.
• To acknowledge that IT Naledi Solutions (Pty) Ltd will keep the record of your personal information confidential.