Cybersecurity Engineering Lead

About the position

Are you an experienced and dynamic security professional looking to make a significant impact in the financial sector? One of Africa's largest and most prestigious banks is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to join our team in Sandton. This pivotal role offers a unique blend of strategic leadership and hands-on technical expertise, aimed at safeguarding our financial services infrastructure in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

As the Lead Security Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our cybersecurity initiatives, driving the design, implementation, and management of advanced security solutions. You will collaborate with a diverse and talented team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to protect our critical assets and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data. This hybrid working model provides the flexibility to balance your professional and personal commitments while contributing to a culture of excellence and innovation.

Required Experience & Qualifications:

• BSc (Computer Science) / BCom (Information Systems)
• TOGAF Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
• Security Domain-related certifications preferable.
• 10 years in IT related functions
• 5 years in Design, experience in Security Domain required
• IT Concepts and Architecture
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Security Concepts
• Cloud infrastructure and DevOps deployments (tools & practice)
• End-to-end environment with front-end, integration, automated workflow and back-end processing. (Linux, Microsoft Wintel, Java, Java scripting, Angular, etc.)

Role Key Tasks:

• Analyse problems and formulate IAM solutions based on organisations boundaries, architectures and constraints - Needs to be achievable and operational, must push boundaries when required and continuously push for improvements
• Collaborate and communicate and obtain buy-in from key technical and business stakeholders.
• Decomposition of the solution and assisting with the scheduling/sequencing work.
• Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and non-functional requirement with definite consideration of user and risk impact

Desired Skills:

• security
• infrastructure
• devops