About the Role:
Our client, a well-established enterprise in Saudi Arabia, is looking for an Endpoint Security Engineer to own its endpoint security platforms end to end. This is a platform ownership role, not a monitoring seat. You will keep the tools healthy, policies current and consistently applied, and every asset covered.
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Key Responsibilities
Endpoint Security (EDR/EPP)
- Deploy, configure, and maintain EDR/EPP agents across servers and workstations
- Administer Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Kaspersky EDR, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft Endpoint Protection
- Manage Kaspersky Security Center (KSC/KSCA): policy deployment, agent management, task scheduling, and reporting
- Configure and tune detection and prevention, application control, device control, and web and mail filtering policies
- Monitor coverage and agent health; identify unmanaged, inactive, or offline endpoints
- Work with the SOC on detection-rule tuning and false-positive reduction
- Manage upgrades, patch cycles, version updates, and vendor escalations
- Produce regular reports on endpoint coverage, platform health, policy compliance, and security posture
Platform Ownership & Operations
- Maintain SOPs, operational procedures, and runbooks for assigned security platforms
- Take part in change management: submission, review, testing, and implementation of change requests
- Coordinate with vendors on support, escalations, renewals, and roadmap updates
- Support incident response activities related to endpoint platforms
- Troubleshoot platform, agent, connectivity, log integration (syslog), and policy issues, including server-side failures
- Work with infrastructure, server, network, and SOC teams to keep coverage reliable
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 3–5 years of experience in cybersecurity infrastructure, endpoint security, or a related technical security role.
- Strong hands-on experience with EDR and EPP technologies
- Practical experience with Kaspersky Endpoint Security and Kaspersky EDR (Expert or Optimum tiers preferred)
- Hands-on experience managing Kaspersky Security Center (KSC/KSCA)
- Proven experience in policy deployment, agent management, health monitoring, and security reporting
- Solid administration knowledge of Windows Server and Linux
- Good understanding of firewalls, proxies, network segmentation, and endpoint-security connectivity requirements
- Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills, with real examples of fixing infrastructure and policy issues
- Ability to work effectively with SOC, infrastructure, network, and vendor teams.
Nice to Have
- CrowdStrike and Microsoft Endpoint Protection experience
- Incident response support experience
- Change management experience (ITIL-style processes)
What We Offer
- Competitive package, aligned to experience
- A hands-on platform ownership role with real scope
- Work in a fast-growing Saudi environment with a larger cybersecurity team build-out ahead
