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Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Expert Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and SRE with over 5 years of experience specializing in Red Teaming, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure), and DevOps. Proven value proposition in identifying critical IOT/API vulnerabilities and automating high-availability systems, resulting in significant technical debt reduction and operational cost savings. Proficient at bridging the gap between deep technical security assessments and scalable, resilient engineering.





Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $50,000

Hourly rate: $25

Nationality: πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ South Africa

Residency: πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ South Africa


Experience

Learning Specialist & Tutor
Correlation One & EDX
2023 - 2025
Delivered a specialized 6-month cybersecurity course to diverse global cohorts, focusing on Cyber Security, networking and Linux system administration. Prepared 200+ students for the Security+ certification, with a core focus on Red Team tactics, Blue Team defense, and Digital Forensics. Facilitated hands-on labs and provided expert technical guidance, achieving a 95% satisfaction rate across corporate and university learners.
Site Reliability Engineer
aYo Holdings
2021 - 2022
Orchestrated a 12-month cloud migration project from on-premise data centers to Azure, enhancing system scalability and disaster recovery capabilities. Reduced technical debt by over 30% through the decommissioning of legacy systems and comprehensive automation of operational workflows. Maintained 99.9% uptime by implementing automated monitoring and managing error budgets for engineering teams. Collaborated with software teams to provide architectural guidance, resulting in improved resiliency and a 20% reduction in infrastructure costs.
DevOps Engineer Intern
Momentum Metropolitan
2021 - 2021
Automated 80% of server configuration and backup tasks using Ansible and AWS, saving 5+ manual labor hours per week. Optimized CI/CD pipelines to drive build/release failure resolution, accelerating software integration cycles by 25%.
Information Security Consultant Intern
F-Secure
2020 - 2020
Conducted foundational security audits and risk analyses to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities for enterprise clients. Authored comprehensive security reports and mitigation plans, ensuring client compliance with global security procedures.

Skills

devops
docker
education
elasticsearch
linux
python
sys-admin
teaching
security
english
zulu