About the position
DEVSECOPS ENGINEER
Are you ready to be part of a transformational journey that will reshape the digital landscape of Africa? A leading Pan-African telecommunications company is launching a groundbreaking Software Engineering Centre of Excellence (COE); dedicated to building future-focused digital products designed to empower and revolutionize the continent. This is your opportunity to join an innovative team and grow your career at the forefront of technological advancement, as we accelerate towards a brighter, more connected future for Africa.
Role:
We are looking to hire a DevSecOps Engineer/Specialist with 4-7 years of experience in DevOps Security across:
- Azure / AWS
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Building and modifying CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing and configuring Security Tooling - e.g., Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).
Key Tasks and Accountabilities include but is not limited to:
- Ensure successful implementation and embedment of effective DevSecOps solutions (i.e. SAST, DAST, CWPP, SCA, etc.)
- Assist the Engineering and Development teams to build effective and secured CI/CD pipelines, assisting in the configuration and maintenance of the pipelines - shifting security left
- Ensure that capabilities are deployed through a CI/CD pipeline with security requirements adhered to prior to deployment
- Communicate application security features to the engineering and development teams utilising a triad of people, processes, and technology
- Advise engineering teams to consider patterns in software security development and best practice, provide recommendations on approach and automation related to security
- Ensure compliance with Security and Operational risk standards
- Work with theCloud team in the engineering of solutions on AWS Cloud using Infrastructure As Code methods such as Terraform and Ansible
- Proactively monitor and fix vulnerabilities while building a "knowledge base"
Qualifications :
Relevant Information Technology Degree or National Diploma
Experience:
- 4-7 years working experience
- Experience with Dockers, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes and GCP/Azure/GCP knowledge.
- Working Experience on Linux based infrastructure.
- Excellent understanding and experience of at least 2 of the following: Python, JavaScript, Shell, Node.js, Bash, Ruby.
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, MongoDb.
- Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
- Experience in deploying security measures in CI/CD cycle process.
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile Principles / methodology.
- Azure services with good hold on b2c identity manager and azure monitoring
- Certification: Microsoft certified: DevSecOps Lead expert or cleared az400 exam of azure
The team will be based in Johannesburg, Gauteng-South Africa; following a hybrid working model.
Desired Skills:
- azure
- aws
- As400
- docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Devops
