andaben
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: πΏπ¦ South Africa
Residency: πΏπ¦ 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