Threat Intelligence & SOC Assurance Specialist

Old Mutual Limited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Limited in Johannesburg seeks a Manager of Self to provide technical security expertise across the Security Operations Centre, ensuring governance and accountability for SOC capabilities delivered by a third-party service provider. You will conduct technical assessments, verifications, and approvals across tooling, architecture, detection engineering, and incident handling.

This role also provides hands-on support to Old Mutual’s cloud security and requires strong stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Cyber Security, with at least 3 years focused on Threat Intelligence, SOC, Threat Detection Engineering, or Incident Response.
• Proven experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence platforms, and security monitoring tools.
• Experience developing and operationalising threat intelligence capabilities, including threat hunting, adversary tracking, IOCs, and threat-led detection use cases.
• Experience overseeing managed security service providers (MSSPs) or outsourced SOC providers.
• Hands-on experience securing cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native security monitoring and incident investigation.
• Understanding of NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001, CIS Controls.
• Experience performing technical security assessments, validating controls, identifying risks, and providing remediation recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills to communicate risks to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Operational & Technical Assurance
• Governance, Oversight & Decision Support
• Stakeholder & Service Provider Engagement
• Building threat intelligence framework to protect the network
• SOC Platform and Services Support

Skills

Threat Intelligence

SOC Operations

Cloud Security

Threat Hunting

Incident Response

Stakeholder Engagement

Security Monitoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security / CS / IT / Engineering

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Threat Intelligence Platform

Security Monitoring Tools

Job description

Old Mutual Limited in Johannesburg seeks a Manager of Self to provide technical security expertise across the Security Operations Centre, ensuring governance and accountability for SOC capabilities delivered by a third-party service provider. You will conduct technical assessments, verifications, and approvals across tooling, architecture, detection engineering, and incident handling.

This role also provides hands-on support to Old Mutual’s cloud security and requires strong stakeholder