This role has the potential to lead our entire IT team over time as 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 Wasok as one of the leading commerce businesses with a 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 the security posture of our corporate IT systems, networks and data
Architect Wasok cyber security guiding principles and best practices
Engineer and build automation, tools that scale to then continuously protect our systems
Set up governance standards, and 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 mechanisms to establish a culture of security across Wasoko
Partner with a product to instil customer first approach in everything security
Requirements:
Hands-on operating at excellence experience as a head security engineer for high traffic production system
Deep knowledge of cloud security architecture and toolset (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 in python, ruby to golang
Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills ` clarity of thought, articulation, data drives and fact-based
Nice to have:
Payment and mobile security exp in scaling e-commerce environment
Exp building security function from the ground up in a startup that scale
Apply via :
wasoko.breezy.hr
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