Location: Hybrid - Cape Town / Johannesburg
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Data Engineering
As a Senior AWS Security Engineer, you'll lead a team of security and cloud engineers while working in a consultative, project-based manner with our clients. You'll be the trusted security advisor on engagements, owning the technical direction, guiding delivery, and ensuring your team produces high-quality, secure, well-engineered outcomes.
The ideal candidate is a strong engineer first: someone who writes production-quality code and IaC, and who brings deep AWS security expertise to every engagement. Beyond building, you'll set technical direction, make architectural trade-offs, establish standards, and mentor others, acting as a credible technical voice with clients from discovery through to handover.
What You'll Do
You'll operate as a technical leader: shaping secure solutions, raising the bar on quality, and unblocking the team.
Lead engagements and people
- Lead a team of security and cloud engineers across client engagements, providing technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on support.
- Own client relationships through the full project lifecycle, from discovery and scoping through to delivery and handover, as the primary technical point of contact.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their security requirements, risk appetite, and compliance obligations, translating these into actionable security roadmaps.
- Present to executive stakeholders and lead technical workshops.
Design and build secure architectures
- Design and implement cloud security architectures on AWS, covering identity, network, data protection, and workload security.
- Lead threat modelling exercises and security design reviews for cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
- Define and enforce IAM strategies, including least-privilege access, permission boundaries, SCPs, and role federation patterns.
- Build and maintain security-focused IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation), writing code that serves as the standard for your team.