Specialist Product Engineer (Security)

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Specialist Product Engineer focused on security. You will contribute to secure software design, implement reference security components, and help integrate security testing into CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product engineering teams, threat modelling, and driving security standards across projects, including training and mentoring internal developers.

Qualifications

• Software engineer with a security focus.
• Experience in secure software development is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop reference implementations to prove and demonstrate security components for product engineering teams.
• Develop components to automate security testing within build processes.
• Assist product engineering teams with implementation of security components.
• Assess security tools and integrate tools where needed.
• Configure new and existing security tools to support security testing activities.
• Document security patterns relevant to product engineering teams.
• Document guidelines aligned to security standards.
• Consult with teams in security code reviews where needed.
• Develop skills in threat modelling and assist others with the process.
• Develop security training and guidance for internal development teams.
• Work across organisational structures to achieve stated goals.
• Pursue security learning and certifications, including practical exercises like Capture The Flag.
• Assist with organisation of the Security Champions program.
• Understand the security environment within the bank driving tool and standards requirements.
• Keep informed on coding standards, patterns, practices, and security initiatives.
• Triage and handle security issues.
• Participate in security architecture reviews.

Skills

Java

C#

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile

Security platform

Data oriented

Job description

About the job Specialist Product Engineer (Security)

Specialist Product Engineer ( Software Engineer with a focus on Security)

• Preferably proficient in either Java or C#
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Agile
• Understanding of Security platform (pref)
• Data oriented, will be dealing with reams of data

Accountabilities:

• Develop reference implementations to prove and demonstrate use of security components for product
• engineering teams.
• Develop components to automate security testing within build processes.
• Assist product engineering teams with implementation of security components.
• Assess security tools and integrate tools where needed.
• Configure new and existing security tools to support security testing activities.
• Document security patterns relevant to product engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Document guidelines aligned to security standards.
• Consult with teams in security code reviews where needed.
• Develop skill in Thread Modelling and assist others with the process.
• Develop security training and guidance to internal development teams.
• Work across organisational structures where required to achieve the stated goals.
• Engage in learning and skills development focused on security, including achieving relevant certifications
• and informal security skills development through Capture The Flag exercises.
• Assist with organisation of the Security Champions program.
• Understand the security environment within the bank that drives the requirements for security tools,
• security testing capabilities and policies and standards that apply to our engineering activities.
• Keep informed on what is going on in the organisation e.g. coding standards, patterns & practices,
• ongoing organisational security initiatives, current incidents and risks.
• Triage and handle security issues.
• Participate in security architecture reviews.