Associate Security Engineer - Detection and Response

Most of our traffic is mobile, so the iOS and Android apps get as much attention as the website. Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership.

Job summary:

We're looking for an Associate Security Engineer - Detection and Response to join our team. This is a remote role. The Detection and Response team is small and hands-on. We need someone who writes code and automation, not just policy. Remote, open to candidates across Egypt. Few meetings, lots of written updates. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities:

• Own secrets management, key rotation and KMS policies
• Write secure coding guidelines and run developer training
• Design and maintain SSO, MFA and conditional access with Okta or Entra ID
• Manage SAST, DAST and dependency scanning with tools such as Semgrep, Snyk, Burp Suite or GitHub Advanced Security
• Maintain EDR coverage with CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Review code and pull requests for security issues
• Run threat modelling sessions with engineering teams on new features and architecture changes
• Automate security checks in CI/CD pipelines

Minimum qualifications:

• 1+ years in security engineering, application security or a related engineering role
• Programming or scripting ability in Python, Go or similar
• Good judgment on risk: knowing what to fix now and what can wait

Desirable:

• OSCP, OSWE, CISSP or a cloud security certification (AWS Security Specialty, AZ-500)
• IaC scanning with Checkov or tfsec

Pay and benefits:

Rate: EGP 28,000 - EGP 32,000 per month

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• Data and airtime allowance
• 13th month salary
• Stock options

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pharaoh Digital.