Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide services that were previously unavailable. Wasoko aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary. Thousands of retailers across Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda use Wasoko’s mobile ordering and delivery service to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time.
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Wasoko Kenya Programme Advert
- Location: Kenya
- Company: Wasoko
- Closing Date : 31 March. 2023
Summary
This role has the potential to lead our entire IT team over time as a qualified leader. We view IT as a function of a secure, monitored, automated self-operating system with a low-cost footprint. The aspiring engineer will set up Wasok as one of the leading commerce businesses with a strong security posture within Africa.
What you will do in this role:
- Audit GCP-hosted distributed services and customer data to identify vulnerabilities and gaps
- Evaluate the security posture of our corporate IT systems, networks and data
- Architect Wasok cybersecurity guiding principles and best practices
- Engineer and build automation, tools that scale to then continuously protect our systems
- Set up governance standards, and best practices working with developers and SREs
- Own and drive response to any security incidents at tier-1
- Set up security standards and roadmap for payment-related services
- Become a voice of security, develop mechanisms to establish a culture of security across Wasoko
- Partner with a product to instil customer first approach in everything security
Requirements:
- Hands-on operating at excellence experience as a head security engineer for high traffic production system
- Deep knowledge of cloud security architecture and toolset (GCP preferred)
- Expert with developer security standards and ways to address them (OWASP top 10 e.g.)
- Experience with compliance standards (e.g. PCI DSS) CISSP or other security certification
- Applied knowledge of security testing a plus SAST, DAST, and SCA
- Expert in python, ruby to golang
- Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills ` clarity of thought, articulation, data drives and fact-based
Nice to have:
- Payment and mobile security exp in scaling e-commerce environment
- Exp building security function from the ground up in a startup that scale
