At the company, we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better. Join our CyberSecurity team where we ensure a world-class CyberSecurity organization based on the key principles of People, Process and Technology with executive endorsement of a multi-year strategy to continuously improve and develop. The team protects our digital assets by monitoring for threats, responding to incidents, managing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with security policies and regulations.
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As Senior Cybersecurity Technical Engineer - Microsegmentation / Workload Security, you will build, manage and operate security technologies in compliance with corporate policy and standards. Ensure security designs meet business requirements and address risk.
Responsibilities
- Lead the discovery projects and build high-level designs to accomplish business needs while prioritizing cyber risk reduction.
- Manage the cybersecurity technology lifecycle from conception to service operation.
- Make design decisions aligning to security principles. Coordinate with internal teams to build support for design decisions and favorable risk reduction outcomes.
- Build technical documentation for cybersecurity technology designs, operations, and support the creation of associated security technology standards.
- Facilitate the ongoing review of cybersecurity technology designs and alignment to industry best practices.
- Support the diagnosis and resolution of cybersecurity technology issues as a subject matter expert.
Requirements
- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Information Technology or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on emerging technologies, governance, and risk management.
- Industry recognized certifications such as CCNP, CISSP, or equivalent advanced security certifications are highly desirable.
- Extensive hands-on experience across data center and cloud security, supporting large scale, complex environments across private (on premise) and public cloud, with a strong focus on workload protection and segmentation.
- Strong practical experience designing, implementing, and operating Zero Trust Segmentation (microsegmentation) capabilities, particularly on Microsegmentation/Workload protection tools and application dependency mapping.
- Experience with creating and debugging automation scripts through Python and Terraform with secrets and source code management, devops tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
- Deep understanding of application-centric security and workload communications (east-west traffic), including how to use dependency mapping to define segmentation boundaries and reduce lateral movement.
- Strong ability to troubleshoot and diagnose segmentation outcomes across compute and network layers (policy intent vs. enforcement), including flow analysis, connectivity testing, application impacts, and exceptions management.
- Proven capability to operate as a senior technical escalation point for microsegmentation, driving platform stability, continuous improvement, and secure-by-design segmentation outcomes across data center and cloud workloads.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.
