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Manager Information Security – AI
Job Location:
Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
3 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
30 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Our client in the Telecommunications & Networking is looking for a Manager: Information Security AI on a contract duration of 6 months.
As the Manager: Information Security AI you are responsible for supporting the security of AI across and helping safeguard the implementation of BRAIN policy the enterprise policy for safe secure and responsible AI.
Reporting to the Senior Manager: Information Security AI you help design and operate AI security controls standards and assurance activities across GenAI classical ML data pipelines and AI-enabled products so that innovation scales secure-by-design compliant and resilient to adversarial manipulation. Working closely with Group Information Security product platform and engineering teams and cloud security partners you act as a hands-on custodian of AI security discipline and a trusted technical partner to engineering data science and product teams.
As the Manager: Information Security AI you are responsible for supporting the security of AI across and helping safeguard the implementation of BRAIN policy the enterprise policy for safe secure and responsible AI.
Reporting to the Senior Manager: Information Security AI you help design and operate AI security controls standards and assurance activities across GenAI classical ML data pipelines and AI-enabled products so that innovation scales secure-by-design compliant and resilient to adversarial manipulation. Working closely with Group Information Security product platform and engineering teams and cloud security partners you act as a hands-on custodian of AI security discipline and a trusted technical partner to engineering data science and product teams.
Education:
Experience:
Competencies:
Technical Competencies
Skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Honours degree advantageous
- Relevant security certifications (e.g. CISSP CCSP); data/AI credentials such as cloud AI specialisations or ML engineering are advantageous
Experience:
- 5 years across cybersecurity / platform security including 23 years securing AI/ML platforms GenAI/LLM ecosystems or data-intensive analytics at enterprise scale
- Experience contributing to security operating models or Centres of Excellence and supporting group-wide policy adoption in complex multi-country organisations (preferably telco / fintech)
- Hands-on exposure to cloud-native AI stacks (in particular Azure) MLOps toolchains and embedding controls in agile product delivery
- Experience integrating AI systems into SOC/SIEM supporting AI incident response and conducting AI red teaming and robustness testing
Competencies:
Technical Competencies
- Security architecture for AI/ML
- Threat modelling and adversarial ML
- Secure MLOps data security and privacy
- GenAI/LLM guardrails
- Risk and compliance
Skills
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Clear technical documentation and reporting
- Analytical and structured problem-solving
- Ability to translate security requirements for engineering data science and product teams
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
With 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Financial Services industry in Africa and the Middle East, we are experts at supporting our clients through their digital transformation journeys. We believe in blending traditional methods with cutting-edge strategies to drive ... View more
