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Cyber Security Engineer

MSP Staffing Pty


Job Location:

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 6 October 2026 (3 days ago)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Responsible for company-wide cybersecurity security systems compliance training documentation processes and records. The role supports ongoing security operations administration and development while improving detection data integrity confidentiality and information security.

Education:

  • Engineering degree in Computer Software or Electronic Engineering.
  • CISM CISSP CCSP or ITIL certification desirable.

Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years experience in Technology & Software.
  • Minimum 3 years experience in Cybersecurity.
  • 3 years in Scala Go Java NodeJS/JavaScript/Typescript/Ruby.
  • Extensive CI/CD framework experience including Jenkins Code Pipeline and CodeBuild.
  • AWS ecosystem and AWS Well Architected Framework.
  • Trusted Advisor GuardDuty SCP SSM IAM and WAF.
  • ECS/EKS container services.
  • Highly Available auto-scaling and load-balanced applications.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code preferably CloudFormation and CDK.
  • Security policies procedures security design and implementation.
  • Incident detection and management.
  • Experience reviewing development concepts and identifying business process and control gaps.

Key Requirements

  • Deep understanding of automation quality engineering architectural methodologies principles and solution design.
  • Operational observability including log aggregation and application performance monitoring.
  • CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions.
  • Linux/Windows server and application administration and configuration networking scripting and automation.
  • Large-scale distributed computing architecture.
  • IT security knowledge including FortiGate firewalls EDR IDS/IPS SOAR (Rapid7) vulnerability scanning (InsightVM) forensics and Threat Hunting.
  • Kubernetes and containerisation using Docker/Podman/Containerd including implementation support and design.
  • Security classification frameworks such as MITRE and the cyber-attack kill chain.
  • Industry standards and frameworks including CIS and ISO-27001.
  • ISO 14971 risk management compliance advantageous.
  • ISO 27032 cybersecurity compliance advantageous.
  • SOC2 Type 2 with HiTrust attestation or equivalent experience advantageous.
  • Design cloud development infrastructure.
  • Automate deployments in AWS Azure and other cloud tools as required.
  • Improve automation of security controls.
  • Work with development teams to define industry-standard processes and system requirements and identify fixes to development lifecycle shortcomings.
  • Design and implement updates covering Cloud Conformity WAF status and Certificate Management.
  • Uplift security posture of consumer accounts.
  • Ensure security standards and policies are correctly configured.
  • Drive Cloud Security LRP standards and enterprise minimum security requirements including data masking encryption monitoring perimeter protections and ingress/egress uplift.
  • Define and maintain backups and backup systems.
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines.
  • Monitor infrastructure and deployments and ensure deployment stability.
  • Generate and maintain effective efficient and reusable code.
  • Drive cybersecurity compliance development standards and processes.
  • Monitor cybersecurity processes operations infrastructure policy and regulatory compliance.
  • Prepare for SOC2 Type I and future HiTrust roadmap.
  • Drive cybersecurity audit strategy and readiness across development security and DevOps.
  • Identify implement and maintain security tools and technology.
  • Schedule and ideally automate ASV and internal vulnerability scans remediate findings and maintain accurate reporting for PCI DSS requirements.
  • Schedule annual penetration tes

Should you meet the requirements for this position please email your CV to . You can also contact the IT team on or visit our website at NOTE: When replying to the advert also include the reference number in the subject line. Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days please consider your application unsuccessful.


Required Experience:

IC