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Information Security Specialist
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Contract type:
Freelance / Contract
Location:
Gauteng, South Africa
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
29 September 2026
What they need
As organisations continue to strengthen their cyber resilience, modernise security operations, and respond to an increasingly complex threat landscape, we anticipate growing demand for experienced cybersecurity professionals across a range of transformation and advisory initiatives.
This is not an active role. We are proactively building a specialist talent pool in anticipation of future consulting opportunities across South Africa's Financial Services, Telecommunications, and broader Technology sectors.
Areas of Interest:
- Cybersecurity Strategy & Advisory – security frameworks, cyber risk assessments, governance, and operating model design.
- Security Operations (SOC) – detection, monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, and cyber resilience.
- Identity & Access Management (IAM) – authentication, privileged access management, and identity governance.
- Cloud Security – AWS, Azure, security architecture, cloud governance, and security engineering.
- Application Security – secure development practices, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, and security testing.
- Information Security Governance – policies, controls, security awareness, and compliance management.
- Cyber Risk & Third-Party Risk Management – assessment, mitigation, reporting, and oversight.
What We're Looking For:
- Strong experience within Financial Services, Telecommunications, Technology, Consulting, or Enterprise environments .
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more cybersecurity disciplines.
- Experience delivering security transformation, security engineering, or cyber risk initiatives.
- Ability to work effectively with business, technology, risk, and executive stakeholders.
- Independent consulting, contracting, or project-based experience is advantageous.
Preferred Background:
We are particularly interested in professionals who have worked on:
- Security transformation programmes.
- Cloud security and migration initiatives.
- Security operations centre (SOC) enhancements.
- Identity and access management implementations.
- Cyber risk and governance programmes.
- Regulatory and security compliance initiatives.
- Enterprise security architecture and engineering projects.
Why Join Our Talent Pool?
Organisations are increasingly investing in cyber resilience, cloud security, identity management, and security operations as part of broader digital transformation programmes.
Whether you're a Cybersecurity Consultant, Security Architect, IAM Specialist, SOC Analyst, Security Engineer, Cyber Risk Manager, or Information Security Lead , we'd love to connect.
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