Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Incident Response Leader

Tangent Solutions; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tangent Solutions is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join the technology team and protect critical information, systems and services within the telecommunications sector.

Role combines deep technical security engineering with incident response, threat hunting and governance responsibilities. You will mentor junior staff and collaborate with external security providers to strengthen controls.

Qualifications

• Degree in cybersecurity or related field and relevant postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• Experience in security operations, incident response and threat detection.
• Experience engaging with technical teams and external security providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support cybersecurity incident response activities
• Investigate security incidents and perform root cause analysis
• Operate and oversee core cybersecurity capabilities (endpoint, SIEM, identity, data, email, web)
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in cybersecurity domain
• Develop and enforce security standards
• Establish and maintain API security standards aligned with OWASP API Top 10
• Develop secure development standards across the organization
• Assess designs for security weaknesses
• Recommend practical security controls based on risk
• Interpret threat intelligence and emerging attack techniques
• Support vulnerability management and penetration testing remediation
• Collaborate with technical teams, stakeholders and external providers
• Contribute to governance, risk and compliance
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to technical workstreams

Skills

EDR / XDR

SIEM / SOC

IAM

Purview & DLP

Web & API Security

Vulnerability Management

Threat Intelligence

Incident Response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity / Information Security / Computer Science

Tools

CrowdStrike / EDR

Arctic Wolf / SIEM

Microsoft Entra ID / Defender

Microsoft Purview / DLP

KnowBe4 / security awareness

Cloudflare / WAF

Tenable / vulnerability mgmt

Job description

Tangent Solutions is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join the technology team and protect critical information, systems and services within the telecommunications sector.

Role combines deep technical security engineering with incident response, threat hunting and governance responsibilities. You will mentor junior staff and collaborate with external security providers to strengthen controls.