Cyber Security Engineer

About the role

Tamara is looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to join its growing security team. In this early‑career position you will help design, implement and maintain secure infrastructure that protects the company’s fintech platform and its millions of users.

Key responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation and continuous improvement of secure systems and infrastructure aligned with Tamara’s security strategy.
• Participate in security assessments, threat modelling and reviews for new and existing services.
• Identify, investigate and assist in remediation of vulnerabilities across code, containers, endpoints and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security controls within CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
• Deploy, configure and maintain security tools such as SIEM, EDR and vulnerability scanners.
• Review system designs and code changes to spot security risks and ensure best‑practice alignment.
• Support monitoring, analysis and response to security events in coordination with the SOC.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks and security procedures while continuously developing technical skills.

Required profile

• 0–3 years of experience in cyber security, IT security, DevSecOps or a related technical role.
• Basic understanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerability types (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
• Exposure to cloud environments (GCP, OCI, AWS) with interest in security hardening.
• Familiarity with containers or containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

Required skills

• SIEM
• EDR
• Vulnerability scanners
• CI/CD pipelines
• GCP
• OCI
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OWASP Top 10