DevSecOps Engineer: Security Automation & IaC Lead

Old Mutual South Africa; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual South Africa is seeking an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to embed security into our DevOps lifecycle in a Cape Town-based role. You will mentor teams, lead automation in CI/CD, and drive vulnerability remediation and incident response across AWS and Azure environments.

The role emphasizes IaC security, secure configuration management, and governance, with collaboration across cloud, security, and operations teams to strengthen the organization’s security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Security Automation Leadership: Lead the development and optimization of security automation scripts and tools in CI/CD pipelines.
• Vulnerability Management and Remediation: Oversee vulnerability scanning and remediation processes.
• Security Monitoring: Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive security monitoring solutions.
• Incident Response: Drive incident response efforts and improve response capabilities.
• IaC Excellence: Enforce secure IaC practices and integrate security measures into provisioning.
• Secure Configuration Management: Implement secure config baselines with operations teams.
• Security Governance and Compliance: Lead governance policies and compliance standards.
• Collaboration and Mentorship: Guide security practices and mentor junior DevSecOps engineers.

Skills

Action Planning

Application Development

Data Compilation

Data Management

Evaluating Information

Executing Plans

IT Network Security

Market Analysis

Product Development

Test Case Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Bicep

Docker

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Old Mutual South Africa is seeking an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to embed security into our DevOps lifecycle in a Cape Town-based role. You will mentor teams, lead automation in CI/CD, and drive vulnerability remediation and incident response across AWS and Azure environments.

The role emphasizes IaC security, secure configuration management, and governance, with collaboration across cloud, security, and operations teams to strengthen the organization’s security posture.