Principle Engineer - Security job at Wasoko
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Vacancy title:
Principle Engineer - Security

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Retail , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Wasoko

Deadline of this Job:
21 March 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 08, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
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

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Wasoko on wasoko.breezy.hr  to apply

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 20 March 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 09-03-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 09-03-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 09-03-2056
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