Threat Intelligence & SOC Engineer — Hybrid

Old Mutual Limited; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Limited is seeking a Threat Intelligence Engineer to lead technical security across the SOC and cloud security. You will oversee assessments, tooling, detection engineering, and incident handling while coordinating with internal teams and third-party providers.

You will maintain up-to-date expertise in SOC technologies, threat hunting, and industry standards; pursue professional development and contribute to knowledge sharing across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, IT, engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years' cyber security experience with 3+ years in threat intelligence, SOC, threat detection engineering or incident response.
• Experience with enterprise security tech including SIEM, EDR/XDR and threat intel platforms.

Responsibilities

• Provide governance, oversight and decision support for SOC services.
• Build and operationalise threat intelligence framework and IOC-driven detections.
• Engage with internal stakeholders and MSSPs to improve security controls.
• Support cloud security and incident investigations acrossAzure environments.

Skills

Threat Intelligence

SOC operations

Threat hunting

Incident response

Cloud security

Azure security

SIEM

EDR/XDR

MSSP oversight

Stakeholder engagement

Education

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

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Threat intel platform

Cloud monitoring tools

Job description

Old Mutual Limited is seeking a Threat Intelligence Engineer to lead technical security across the SOC and cloud security. You will oversee assessments, tooling, detection engineering, and incident handling while coordinating with internal teams and third-party providers.

You will maintain up-to-date expertise in SOC technologies, threat hunting, and industry standards; pursue professional development and contribute to knowledge sharing across the organization.