CyberSecurity SecOps Manager

Stellenbosch, Western Cape | Hybrid – one day per week working from home | Permanent

Join an award-winning MSSP and take ownership of CyberSecurity SecOps within a leading blue-chip client environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, hands-on CyberSecurity SecOps Manager who enjoys combining technical involvement with leadership, incident coordination and continuous improvement.

You will work primarily from the client’s Stellenbosch head office, with one day per week working from home.

The Opportunity

You will take ownership across:

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Microsoft Azure Security
• Nessus vulnerability management
• Vectra network detection
• Identity and Access Management
• Cybersecurity incident response
• Security compliance
• SecOps automation

Working closely with the SOC, cloud, infrastructure and business teams, you will ensure that security platforms are correctly configured, monitored and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day SecOps function and drive continuous improvement.
• Manage security platforms, policies, baselines and controls.
• Oversee endpoint, identity, email, network and Azure cloud security.
• Manage vulnerability scanning, prioritisation and remediation using Nessus.
• Investigate and coordinate responses to cybersecurity incidents.
• Maintain Microsoft Defender policies, integrations and platform health.
• Oversee Azure identity controls, including PIM, RBAC, service principals and managed identities.
• Coordinate privileged-user and third-party access reviews.
• Monitor Vectra alerts and improve network-threat detection.
• Conduct security compliance and configuration reviews.
• Track vulnerabilities, incidents and control gaps through to resolution.
• Develop automated workflows and incident-response playbooks.
• Produce clear security, risk, compliance and performance reports.
• Participate in a weekly rotating SecOps and Incident Response standby roster.

What We Are Looking For

You should have proven CyberSecurity SecOps experience, together with practical exposure to several of the following:

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Microsoft Intune
• Microsoft Azure Security
• Entra ID, PIM, RBAC and IAM
• Nessus, Tenable or comparable vulnerability-management tools
• Vectra or comparable network-detection technology
• SIEM, EDR, XDR or SOC environments
• Cybersecurity incident investigation, containment and remediation
• Security configuration and hardening
• Compliance reviews and remediation programmes
• SecOps automation, SOAR or response playbooks

You will need to be technically credible, comfortable working across multiple teams and confident taking ownership of security issues through to resolution.

Relevant Microsoft, CISSP, CISM, GIAC, cloud-security or vulnerability-management certifications would be advantageous.

Why Join?

• Work for an award-winning cybersecurity specialist.
• Support a high-profile blue-chip client.
• Gain broad exposure to Microsoft security and cloud technologies.
• Work alongside experienced SOC, endpoint, identity, cloud and infrastructure specialists.
• Benefit from ongoing training and professional development.
• Help shape and improve a major enterprise SecOps environment.
• Receive a market-related salary, annual bonus and company benefits.

Apply

If you are a hands-on CyberSecurity SecOps professional ready to take ownership of a complex enterprise security environment, we would like to hear from you.

Please submit your CV, current location, notice period and salary expectations.

Applicants must be South African citizens or permanent residents and hold relevant industry certifications. All applications will be treated in strict confidence.