Job Description
Old Mutual Finance is looking for a Cloud Security Engineer who will provide AWS Cloud Security expertise and will be responsible for the implementation of security controls. This role requires a professional who is comfortable taking decisions and dealing with a range of problem-solving challenges, can work in a fast-paced environment and has a clear passion for security and related technologies.
- Clearly document security controls and processes for Cloud environments
- Build security conformance pack and ensure alerting
- Implement and configure security controls in Cloud environments
- Ensure security compliance and implement automation of security controls in the Cloud.
- Ensure that security standards are applied in the Cloud environment.
- Provide security recommendations on Cloud-based data security.
- Monitor security controls that are high risk and non-compliant for all of application and account in the Cloud.
- Deploy systems to monitor and detect malicious activity in the Cloud
- Continuously improve security of Cloud-based systems
- Leverages industry best practices in security
- Provides security recommendations to the application development teams and identifies security gaps
- Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
- Work in a DevOps culture
- Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, data engineers, Devops engineers, business
- Supports the organisations Cloud strategy and aligns to the data architecture and governance including the implementation of these data governance practices.
- Work with various stakeholders across the organisation to understand data security requirements and apply technical knowledge of data management to solve key business problems.
- MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)
- Matric with Tertiary qualification in ANY of the following; Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science; Technical IT diploma from a recognised IT training institution
- 5+ years IT work experience and 2+ years experience in Network or Cloud security position
- Security & Networking related industry certifications:
- CompTIA cloud+ | CompTIA security+ | ISC2 CCSP (certified cloud security professional)
- AWS Solution Architect Associate | AWS Security Specialty | AWS Network Specialty
- Advanced understanding of Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- In depth knowledge of (*cloud) networking concepts
- Routing | Address allocation | DNS | Troubleshooting
- AWS VPC | Transit Gateway | PrivateLink | NACL
- In depth knowledge of (*cloud) security concepts
- OWASP | DevSecOps
- AWS Security Groups | IAM (resource and identity) | GuardDuty | CloudTrail
- Understand and be able to implement DevOps
- Understand Cloud Security Frameworks:
- SABSA
- NIST
- CIS
- AWS Well Architected Framework
- Some experience with the Python programming language.
- Experience with designing and implementing Cloud (AWS) solutions including use of APIs available.
- Good problem-solving skills: The ability to exercise judgment in solving technical, operational, and organizational challenges, to identify issues proactively, to present solutions and options leading to resolution
Education
Closing Date
28 June 2023
Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.
Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.
