Senior Telecom Security Architect (Fully Remote)

Placements24; Mbombela (Nelspruit); Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive salary and bonuses

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous paid time off and retirement

Fully remote work arrangement

Professional development and certs

Access to advanced security tools

Impactful role in critical infra

Job summary

Placements24 client, a leading telecommunications company, is seeking a Senior Security Architect to design, implement, and maintain security strategies across our network infrastructure in a fully remote role. This position emphasizes protecting Nelspruit-related data and services with robust security architectures.

You will lead incident response, risk assessments, cloud security (AWS/Azure), and firewall/IDS/IPS/SIEM implementations while mentoring junior staff and ensuring regulatory

Qualifications

• 8+ years in information security with 4+ years in security architecture in telecom.
• Experience designing security for complex networks, cloud, and critical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of threat modeling, risk management, and incident response.
• Familiar with firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco), IDS/IPS, endpoint security, and SIEM (Splunk, QRadar).
• Cloud security best practices and frameworks; strong networking fundamentals.
• Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP) desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end security solutions for telecom networks.
• Develop and enforce security policies and procedures.
• Conduct security risk assessments, vulnerability analyses, and penetration testing.
• Evaluate new security technologies and best practices.
• Collaborate with network engineering, IT, and operations to integrate security.
• Lead security incident response and post-incident analyses.
• Mentor junior security staff and other teams.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and data privacy laws.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cloud security

SIEM

Firewall admin

Incident response

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palo Alto

Splunk

QRadar

AWS

Azure

IDS/IPS

Job description

Placements24 client, a leading telecommunications company, is seeking a Senior Security Architect to design, implement, and maintain security strategies across our network infrastructure in a fully remote role. This position emphasizes protecting Nelspruit-related data and services with robust security architectures.

You will lead incident response, risk assessments, cloud security (AWS/Azure), and firewall/IDS/IPS/SIEM implementations while mentoring junior staff and ensuring regulatory