Security Engineer

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

SE22

Date posted:

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Market related

SUMMARY:
This role is perfect for an experienced Application Security Engineer who wants to supercharge their

JOB DESCRIPTION:

What you will do in the role

Secure implementation of authentication and authorisation across our applications
Help develop and maintain security dashboards
Tune and maintain our WAF
Maintain our logging libraries
Secure our SDLC particularly around our CI/CD pipeline
Assist in making automation a first-class concept in the security team
Assist with any other security-related operational components

What you will be measured on

Ability to educate software engineers on application security best practice
Your ability to work with multiple teams
That all applications are generating well-structured and uniform logs
That the WAF is maintained to combat the most common OWASP vulnerabilities
Your ability to work on tasks concurrently
Your ability to pick up other security related tasks where necessary

Who we are looking for; track record must haves

At least one security qualification (eg. Security+)
At least 3 years' experience in one of Ruby, Python or Javascript
Hands-on understanding of common OWASP vulnerabilities
Good understanding of cryptographic concepts like encryption vs hashing, TLS, RSA, Diffie-Hellman and Elliptic Curves

Experience that would be nice to have (but we’ll trade off if everything else fits)

Tertiary education in software engineering related field.
Familiarity with authentication and authorisation specifications like OpenID Connect and OAuth2
Experience with AWS

The Prodigy Finance fit; attributes which run true in everyone at Team Prodigy

To be an A player at Prodigy Finance, you need to possess – in spades - the following attributes:

Innovative + Smart

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