Lead DevSecOps Engineer & Security Architect - Hybrid

Liquid Thought; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + discretionary annual bonus

30 days annual leave + 3 mental health days

Medical aid contribution of up to R2,000/month

Apple MacBook and necessary equipment

Flexible hybrid working

Paid parking when in office

Genuinely great team and culture

Job summary

Liquid Thought in Cape Town is looking for a hands-on Lead DevSecOps Engineer to own security infrastructure and drive a proactive security culture. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of DevSecOps and Cloud Security experience, with deep expertise in AWS.

The role includes transforming security operations, mentoring junior staff, and implementing automated threat responses. The position offers competitive salary, flexible working, and benefits including annual leave and medical contributions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, or Systems Engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS and Heroku, with strong IaC experience.
• Solid knowledge of AWS networking and compute: VPCs, EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, CloudFront, ECS.

Responsibilities

• Transform the SIEM platform into a true Security Nerve Centre.
• Build automated threat response systems to trigger on unusual payloads.
• Implement a standardised rate-limiting strategy across all endpoints.
• Integrate vulnerability and intrusion detection insights into CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor junior SecOps team members toward proactive security practices.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud Security

Systems Engineering

AWS

Heroku

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Security Tooling

Angular

React

Ruby on Rails

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Sumo Logic

CrowdStrike

Snyk

Dependabot

AWS WAF

Cloudflare

Job description

Liquid Thought in Cape Town is looking for a hands-on Lead DevSecOps Engineer to own security infrastructure and drive a proactive security culture. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of DevSecOps and Cloud Security experience, with deep expertise in AWS.

The role includes transforming security operations, mentoring junior staff, and implementing automated threat responses. The position offers competitive salary, flexible working, and benefits including annual leave and medical contributions.