Title: Cybersecurity Engineer

Location: Dubai - Onsite

Job Type: 6 Months Contract

Required Skills and Qualifications (5-8 years of experience)

• Proven experience in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, or technical risk management.
• Strong understanding of network, endpoint, cloud, and application security principles.
• Experience with vulnerability management, incident response, and threat modeling.
• Working knowledge of compliance and security frameworks: ISO 27001, UAEIA, NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to communicate security risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, GCIA, CCSP, or equivalent are strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

Security Architecture & Engineering:

• Design and implement secure architecture across IT and OT systems, ensuring defense-in-depth and secure-by-design principles.
• Develop and maintain security controls for infrastructure, endpoints, cloud, and applications. • Validate the security of network, system, and cloud configurations to ensure alignment with architecture standards and compliance requirements.

Vulnerability & Risk Management

• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and threat modeling for enterprise assets.
• Analyze and prioritize risks; coordinate remediation efforts with infrastructure and application teams.
• Ensure alignment of risk mitigation efforts with ISO 27001, UAEIA, and NIST standards.

Security Operations & Monitoring

• Review alerts, logs, and indicators of compromise to support continuous monitoring and response.
• Recommend and implement automation or tuning improvements to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.

Cloud & Application Security

• Engineer secure configurations and architectures for multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). • Integrate security controls within CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Participate in secure code review processes and support application security testing (SAST, DAST).