Security Platforms DevOps Engineer
| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Sector | IT - DevelopmentIT - Cybersecurity |
| Salary | R900 000 – R1 000 000 Per Annum |
| Start Date | Approximately 1 month |
| Job Ref | VR/25826 |
- Description
Swan IT is on the hunt for a Security Platforms DevOps Engineer for a client in the financial industry. As the Security Platforms DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for Implementing and operating Security DevOps Platforms & Services within autonomous ‘x-as a service” teams.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing and operating Security DevOps Platforms & Services in accordance with the business's reliability, capacity and full-stack observability requirements.
- Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms.
- Familiarity with security best practices and the ability to implement security measures in the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers and architects to understand requirements and constraints.
- Continuously improve and refine processes, procedures and system development life cycle frequently to deliver business value to the business.
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technology, emerging threats, and best practices.
- Ensure appropriate standards, patterns, best practices and operational maturity models are in place and monitored.
- Implementing and maturing Agile and DevOps tooling and practices for the Security Platforms environment.
- Prioritize efforts with cross-functional teams.
- Adhere to and implement software development and security standards and best practices.
- Deliver repeatable operations as code and security configuration as code.
- Deliver and maintain Infrastructure using IaC (infrastructure as code) as applicable.
- Coach team members in adopting DevOps practices and tooling.
Requirements:
- Tertiary qualification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Experience working in a hybrid- and multi-cloud environment (AWS preferred) and cloud technologies (AWS & Azure technologies preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of experience in technology roles.
- Working in a DevOps environment (including proven CI/CD experience with technologies such as GitLab or Github, Nexus and others). Technical expertise in software development, IT operations, and DevOps tools and technologies.
- Proven experience delivering long-term, repeatable IaC solutions into an overall CI/CD process.
Apply today to hear more!