Lead Security Engineer

Carry1st is Africa’s leading publisher of mobile games and digital content. Operating at the intersection of games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems.  Across our publishing and Pay1st business lines, we are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Stillfront.  We are backed by top investors like: a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony and Nas.   

As Lead Security Engineer you’ll be responsible for analyzing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, and identify and resolve security issues. You will include the appropriate security analysis, defenses and countermeasures at each phase of the software development lifecycle, to result in robust and reliable software. You will also be responsible for Cyber Security countermeasures, infrastructure security posture and will own incident responses and security policies across the business. 

You will...

• Develop security standards, procedures, strategy plans, and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices
• Write detailed problem reports, test plan documents and mitigation recommendations as needed
• Design and develop security testing scenarios, advise team members on secure coding practices,  and complete security reviews of new features, products, services, and vendors
• Perform on-going security testing and code reviews to improve software security
• Develop tools to aid penetration test automation and effectiveness and create threat models that result in more secure application design
• Provide timely reporting of security related systems and events to various levels of management on a regular basis