Senior Security Analyst
Acuity Consultants
Cape Town, Western Cape
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Job description
This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior security analyst to become the technical security authority for SA’s leading payments FinTech, owning the security roadmap and hands-on implementation work.
This Senior Security Analyst role is Cape Town-based.
THE COMPANY
This organisation is the leading South African fintech enabling businesses and consumers to move money faster, more reliably, and at scale. Its platform supports a broad range of payment use cases, helping merchants collect, send, and manage payments seamlessly.
Processing millions of transactions, the business plays a critical role in South Africa's digital payments ecosystem, where reliability, speed, and most importantly trust are essential.
THE ROLE
As Senior Security Analyst, you’ll own and evolve the security roadmap, setting technical standards and strengthening security across cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs and endpoints.
Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, you’ll lead hands-on penetration testing, adversary simulations and incident response, while implementing security tooling and driving vulnerability remediation with engineering teams.
You’ll embed security into development workflows and translate technical risk into clear decisions for leadership, auditors, banks and merchants, leading the technical workstream for security audits and due diligence.
THE REQUIREMENTS
8+ years in cybersecurity, with experience shaping security practices and taking ownership beyond day-to-day delivery.
A strong offensive security background, with the ability to test systems yourself and lead the technical response when incidents occur.
Practical experience securing AWS or another major cloud, implementing security tools and using scripting to automate security work.
Experience prioritising vulnerabilities and working with engineering teams to get fixes delivered.
Ability to turn security frameworks and standards, including PCI DSS and ISO 27001, into practical controls and demonstrate these under audit.
Security certifications and experience in payments, fintech or another regulated environment would be valuable.
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