Cyber Security Engineer
Capitec
Capitec Group
Salary not specified - Full-time
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Conduct vulnerability research and analyse security threats
- Perform risk assessments and report on security posture
- Monitor systems and logs for suspicious activity
- Respond to and mitigate security incidents and breaches
- Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across systems
- Maintain incident records and improve response processes
- Collaborate with IT/dev teams to embed security in systems
- Collect and share threat intelligence across teams
- Track attack patterns and support security improvements
- Build threat dashboards for monitoring and reporting
- At least 5 years’ experience in Incident Response and Threat Mitigation
- Experience with: Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Windows/Red Hat
- Exposure to Agile/DevOps environments
- Relevant IT/Computer Science qualification
- Preferably banking/financial services experience
Requirements
- Grade12 (National Certificate / Vocational)
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology / Computer Science
- Analytical Skills
- Communications Skills
- Decision making skills
- Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
- Leadership Skills
- Planning, organising and coordination skills
- Work on high-impact security challenges within a leading digital bank
- Be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking security team
- Continuous learning and exposure to modern fintech and API ecosystems
- Opportunity to influence how security is embedded across the organisation
- Clear criminal and credit record
