Threat Intelligence & SOC Assurance Lead

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd is seeking a Manager of Self to provide technical security expertise across the SOC and related cloud security functions. The role coordinates with internal and external stakeholders and oversees a third‑party SOC service provider to ensure governance and accountability.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Cyber Security with a focus on Threat Intelligence, SOC operations, and incident response, and hands‑on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR and cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, IT or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years in Cyber Security with 3 years in Threat Intelligence, SOC, Threat Detection Engineering or Incident Response.
• Experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat intel platforms, and security monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical security assurance across SOC tooling, architecture, detection engineering and incident handling processes.
• Oversight of governance, decision support and service provider engagement.
• Build and maintain threat intelligence framework for network protection.
• Direct SOC platform and services delivery and drive capability development.
• Support cloud security controls and align SOC with Old Mutual's cloud security posture.

Skills

Threat intelligence

SOC operations

Cloud security

Security monitoring

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Threat intel platforms

Cloud security monitoring

Job description

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd is seeking a Manager of Self to provide technical security expertise across the SOC and related cloud security functions. The role coordinates with internal and external stakeholders and oversees a third‑party SOC service provider to ensure governance and accountability.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Cyber Security with a focus on Threat Intelligence, SOC operations, and incident response, and hands‑on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR and cloud