Security Engineer at AES Africa

Purpose of the Role

The ideal candidate will be responsible for securing building and operating security controls, and buildng out a security platform with a strong defence. MUST be Python proficient, and have experience with defensive systems, networking, Linux administration and configuration management systems.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing technical solutions to support defensive security
• Deploying, operating, and monitoring SIEM, IPS/IDS
• Responding to Security Incidents
• Expanding security auditing and monitoring capabilities
• Developing custom applications to monitor red flag situations
• Working with DevOps to secure the platform, hardening servers, networks, Kubernetes
• Working with Application teams to secure code, consulting on implementations
• Working with Infrastructure to secure the physical environments (office networks, etc)
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Developing automation
• Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems

Qualifications and Experience

• BCom Computer Science preffered
• 5 Years of Security Engineering/Development experience
• SIEM, IDS/IPS, Canaries, Fail2Ban, etc
• TCP, UDP, IP, nmap, wireshark, etc
• Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker
• Kubernetes, Docker (or containers in general)