Cyber Security Engineer

Southern Lights
📍 South-Africa, South-Africa, South-Africa 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted February 22, 2026

Job Description

We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to help one of the leading organisations in their sector to continue the safety & security of the business and its customers.

This individual will support the CISO in performing proactive reviews of systems & data, participating in architecture reviews, identifying gaps in their security program, implementing security tooling, and responding to & investigating security alerts & incidents.

  • 5 years of experience, with at least 2 years in a dedicated cloud security or (DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE/Platform) role.
  • Experienced in infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, CloudFormation or similar
  • Skilled in infrastructure security concepts such as lateral movement, rate limiting, container escape, key management or similar
  • Proficient in Data manipulation languages - Python or similar
  • Experienced in using AWS GuardDuty, Inspector, Landing Zones or similar.
  • Familiarity of security standards, acce...

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Job Details

  • Location South-Africa, South-Africa
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Quality Management
  • Posted Date February 22, 2026
  • Application Deadline April 03, 2026