South Africa: Professional Services Engineer posted by Manpower Group
Job Description
As a Professional Services Engineer, you’ll wear several hats:
- Guiding customers through deployments and optimisations.
- Writing scripts to automate rollouts and improve efficiency.
- Brainstorming and building new ways to trip up attackers.
- Collaborating with teams to bring innovative detection ideas to life.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with customers to understand their security challenges and goals.
- Deliver hands-on walkthroughs, product demonstrations, and training sessions.
- Build scripts and automation tools to streamline deployments.
- Review and optimise customer configurations and run health checks.
- Research and build proof-of-concepts for new detection capabilities.
- Collaborate internally to refine processes, tooling, and documentation.
- Act as an advocate for customer needs and feedback.
Location
- Worldwide (Remote-friendly).
- If based in South Africa (Cape Town or Johannesburg), occasional office visits are welcomed but not required.
Key Skills
You don’t need to tick every box, but here’s what we value:
- Scripting & automation – Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Security mindset – Understanding attacker behaviours (initial access, lateral movement, reconnaissance, etc.).
- Technical fundamentals – Networking (TCP/IP, DNS), APIs/HTTP/S, Windows and Linux.
- Curiosity – You’re constantly asking, How does this work? and How can I break it?
- Communication skills – Able to engage effectively with both technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus Points For
- Experience in penetration testing, incident response, or threat detection.
- Prior exposure to deception/honeypots.
- Contributions to security tooling or open-source projects.
- Experience working with international customers and distributed teams.
You’ll be part of a team that values thoughtful, impactful work. We build technology we believe in, for people we respect, to defend against adversaries we understand.
Please note only suitable candidates will be contacted
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