Chief Information Security Officer

Chief Information Security Officer


Company
Swypex
Location
Giza, El Omraniya
Job Type
Full-time
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Job Description
About Swypex

Swypex is a fast-scaling fintech platform handling thousands of transactions per minute. Security, compliance, and trust are at the core of our business. We’re looking for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to own and lead our security strategy, protect our infrastructure, and guide us through PCI-DSS and SOC 2 compliance with excellence.
Responsibilities

SIEM/SOC Ownership
β€’ Monitor and analyze SIEM logs daily to detect threats, anomalies, and suspicious activities.
β€’ Develop, refine, and implement new SIEM rules and alerting mechanisms.
β€’ Provide actionable recommendations on security alerts and drive remediation to closure.
β€’ Ensure SIEM deployment remains up to date, tuned, and aligned with best practices.

Compliance Leadership
β€’ Lead annual PCI-DSS and SOC 2 compliance audits end-to-end.
β€’ Prepare policies, procedures, evidence, and narratives for external auditors.
β€’ Implement ongoing controls and processes to ensure continuous compliance readiness.
β€’ Partner with third-party auditors and penetration testers; track findings to resolution.

Secure Engineering Practices
β€’ Establish and evangelize secure coding standards (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management).
β€’ Proactively identify risks in application and data architecture; design mitigation strategies.
β€’ Participate in architecture reviews to ensure security-by-design for new features/products.

Education & Collaboration
β€’ Train and guide cross-functional teams on security risks, secure SDLC, and incident response.
β€’ Serve as the primary security point of contact for external stakeholders (e.g., enterprise clients, security questionnaires).

Requirements
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β€’ Proven experience as a CISO, Security Director, or Senior Security Engineer in a regulated or fintech environment.
β€’ Strong expertise with SIEM management (Wazuh, Splunk, ELK, or equivalent).
β€’ Hands-on experience with PCI-DSS and SOC 2 audits and evidence collection.
β€’ Knowledge of modern security best practices in Kubernetes, Postgres, and cloud-native environments.
β€’ Strong communication skills to influence engineering, operations, and executive teams.
β€’ Ability to collaborate effectively with auditors, pen testers, and enterprise customers.

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