Job Vacancy Details
Senior Application Security Engineer
Technology
Cape Town
Permanent
Updated May 6, 2012
As the Senior Application Security Engineer, the following include some of key responsibilities:
• Develop security solutions to protect network and infrastructure, including auto detecting potential intrusions, enforcing security policies/compliance, creating security components across the massive and distributed network
• Define and create the processes/tools and auto detection technologies to mitigate abuse activities, such as botnet, DDOS, spamming
• Improveorganisation security service offerings to help customers protect their applications against attacks from the cloud
• Participate in security operational support, actively analyzing cases and threat trends
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies
• Recognize, adopt, utilize and teach best practices in security engineering: secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response
• Partner with teams throughout the Company to develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk
• Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context
• Maintain an understanding of the Internet threat environment and how it affects the company and keep knowledge and skills current with the rapidly changing threat landscape
• Participate in efforts that create and improve the company's security policies
Who we're looking for
The successful applicant will possess:
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus)
• 5+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Ruby, Perl, Java or C/C++
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities
•Strong clientcommunication skills
• Expert knowledge of Cloud Computing
About our client
Leading Global e-commerce retailer and ISP.
What's on offer
Competitive package on offer
Michael Page Contact
Job Ref: 7100
Your application will be sent to Roopa Mistry.
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