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Lead DevSecOps Engineer

EQPlus

  • Undisclosed
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 15 Jun 2026 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2640812
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About the position

Join a product-led technology team where security, automation, and engineering excellence come together to create resilient platforms and meaningful technical impact.

Role Overview
This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of security engineering within a modern cloud-native environment. You'll be responsible for strengthening platform resilience, advancing security automation, and helping shape the long-term security strategy across the business.

Working closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams, you'll drive initiatives across detection engineering, cloud security, infrastructure as code, automated response capabilities, and secure software delivery. The environment encourages curiosity, experimentation, and practical problem solving, giving you the freedom to build solutions that improve security, reliability, and developer experience at scale.

If you enjoy combining security thinking with engineering execution, and like seeing the direct impact of your work on a growing platform, you'll feel right at home here.

The Stack

  • Building and evolving security capabilities across a cloud-first environment
  • Driving detection engineering and improving visibility across systems, applications, and infrastructure
  • Developing automated responses to security events and indicators of compromise
  • Improving platform resilience through load testing, security simulations, and proactive engineering practices
  • Embedding security controls directly into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code workflows
  • Implementing policy-as-code and automated security gates to strengthen software delivery
  • Working closely with engineering teams to improve security throughout the development lifecycle
  • Enhancing monitoring, alerting, threat detection, and incident response capabilities
  • Contributing to cloud security architecture and platform design decisions
  • Establishing standards that improve operational security and long-term maintainability
  • Mentoring engineers and helping develop a proactive security culture across the organisation

You'll Fit In If...

  • You hold a relevant qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
  • You've spent 10+ years working in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related disciplines
  • You stay current with developments across security, cloud technologies, automation, and AI
  • You have deep hands-on experience securing cloud environments, particularly AWS
  • Infrastructure as Code is second nature to you and you've implemented security controls through automation
  • You understand networking, cloud infrastructure, containers, application security, and modern deployment practices
  • You've worked with SIEM, vulnerability management, endpoint protection, threat detection, or security monitoring platforms
  • You enjoy automating repetitive tasks and improving systems through engineering
  • You are comfortable operating across security, infrastructure, engineering, and operations teams
  • You have experience mentoring others and elevating technical capability within a team
  • You enjoy solving complex technical problems and building practical, scalable solutions
  • You are comfortable making decisions, navigating ambiguity, and taking ownership of outcomes
  • Experience with AWS networking and compute services, containerised environments, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native architectures, security tooling, and modern web application stacks would be highly beneficial.

Desired Skills:

  • DevSecOps
  • Cloud Security
  • AWS Security
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Security Engineering
  • CI/CD Security
  • Detection Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Platform Security
  • Application Security
  • Threat Detection
  • DevOps

Desired Work Experience:

  • More than 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus

About the agency

EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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