This role has potential to lead our entire IT team over time for a qualified leader. We view IT as a function of a secure, monitored, automated self operating system with a low cost footprint. The aspiring engineer will set up Wasoko as one of the leading commerce businesses with strong security posture within Africa.
What you will do in this role:
Audit GCP hosted distributed services and customer data to identify vulnerabilities and gaps
Evaluate security posture of our corporate IT systems, networks and data
Architect Wasoko cyber security guiding principles and best practices
Engineer and build automation, tools that scales to then continuously protect our systems
Set up governance standards, best practices working with developers and SREs
Own and drive response to any security incidents at tier-1
Set up security standards and roadmap for payment related services
Become a voice of security, develop mechanism to establish culture of security across Wasoko
Partner with product to instill customer first approach in everything security
Requirements:
Hands on operating at excellence experience as head security engineer for high traffic production system
Deep knowledge of cloud security architecture and tool set (GCP preferred)
Expert with developer security standards and ways to address them (OWASP top 10 e.g.)
Experience with compliance standards (e.g. PCI DSS)
CISSP or other security certification
Applied knowledge of security testing a plus SAST, DAST, and SCA
Expert at python, ruby to golang
Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills ` clarity of thought, articulate, data drives and fact based
Nice to have:
Payment and mobile security experience in scaling ecommerce environment
Experience building security function from ground up in a startup that scale
Apply via :
wasoko.breezy.hr
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