Cybersecurity Specialist - (Saudi National)

About the Role
The Cybersecurity Specialist is a cross-functional role responsible for managing, maintaining, and supervising all cybersecurity controls at the company. The specialist ensures that security tools remain operational, enforces security policies, and confirms that controls adhere to NCA requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and monitor the company's security controls: firewalls, EDR/antivirus, email and web security, DLP, PAM, NAC, and SIEM log sources.
• Review and tune security policies and rules, and conduct regular configuration and health checks.
• Coordinate vulnerability scanning and track remediation with IT and application owners.
• Support patch management, system hardening, and secure baseline configurations.
• Manage user access reviews, privileged accounts, and identity controls.
• Collaborate with the SOC team on alerts and incidents and support investigation and containment efforts.
• Ensure that controls align with NCA ECC and CCC, and support internal and external audits.
• Produce security reports, KPIs, and status updates for management.
• Supervise third-party vendors and managed service providers in regard to security controls.
• Raise security awareness and provide guidance to business teams on secure practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 4–7 years of experience in cybersecurity operations or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with at least three of the following: firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point), EDR (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Trend Micro), SIEM (Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel), DLP, PAM (CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea), email security.
• Working knowledge of NCA ECC, CCC, and ISO 27001.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management tools such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7.
• Saudi national, fluent in Arabic and English.

Preferred Certifications

• CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CISSP, CEH, CCNA Security, or vendor certifications (Palo Alto PCNSE, Fortinet NSE, Microsoft SC-200).