Senior Security Analyst

Acuity Consultants; Cape Town; Presencial; ZAR 850.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acuity Consultants in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to become the technical security authority for SA’s leading payments fintech, owning the security roadmap and hands-on implementation.

You will lead penetration testing, adversary simulations and incident response, while embedding security into development workflows and guiding audits and due diligence for leadership, auditors, banks, and merchants.

Formación

• 8+ years in cybersecurity with ownership beyond day-to-day tasks.
• Strong offensive security background and ability to lead incident response.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve the security roadmap and technical standards.
• Lead hands-on penetration testing, adversary simulations and incident response.
• Implement security tooling and drive remediation with engineering teams.
• Embed security into development workflows and communicate risk to leadership.
• Lead technical workstream for security audits and due diligence.

Conocimientos

Penetration testing

Incident response

Adversary simulations

Cloud security (AWS)

Scripting/automation

Vulnerability management

Security audits

Descripción del empleo

This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior security analyst to become the technical security authority for SA’s leading payments FinTech, owning the security roadmap and hands-on implementation work.

This Senior Security Analyst role is Cape Town-based.

THE COMPANY

This organisation is the leading South African fintech enabling businesses and consumers to move money faster, more reliably, and at scale. Its platform supports a broad range of payment use cases, helping merchants collect, send, and manage payments seamlessly.

Processing millions of transactions, the business plays a critical role in South Africa's digital payments ecosystem, where reliability, speed, and most importantly trust are essential.

THE ROLE

As Senior Security Analyst, you’ll own and evolve the security roadmap, setting technical standards and strengthening security across cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs and endpoints.

Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, you’ll lead hands-on penetration testing, adversary simulations and incident response, while implementing security tooling and driving vulnerability remediation with engineering teams.

You’ll embed security into development workflows and translate technical risk into clear decisions for leadership, auditors, banks and merchants, leading the technical workstream for security audits and due diligence.

THE REQUIREMENTS

8+ years in cybersecurity, with experience shaping security practices and taking ownership beyond day-to-day delivery.

A strong offensive security background, with the ability to test systems yourself and lead the technical response when incidents occur.

Practical experience securing AWS or another major cloud, implementing security tools and using scripting to automate security work.

Experience prioritising vulnerabilities and working with engineering teams to get fixes delivered.

Ability to turn security frameworks and standards, including PCI DSS and ISO 27001, into practical controls and demonstrate these under audit.

Security certifications and experience in payments, fintech or another regulated environment would be valuable.