About the Role
The Senior Security Analyst plays a key role in strengthening security operations, incident management, and compliance within the company. This position is responsible for leading and coordinating incident response activities across the Security Operations Centre (SOC) partners and internal IT teams. The role focuses on developing and maintaining response playbooks, escalation paths, and reporting procedures.
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Responsibilities also include implementing, monitoring, and optimizing technical security controls across cloud, network, and endpoint environments. The Senior Security Analyst will support risk assessments, vulnerability management, and audit remediation, and will define key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for managed security service providers.
Additionally, this role provides hands-on guidance to IT teams to ensure alignment with corporate security frameworks and contributes to security awareness initiatives as well as the continuous improvement of processes, tools, and controls.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Security Monitoring and Incident Response
- Security Tools, Threat Posture, and Control Optimisation
- Risk Assessment, Audit and Compliance Support
- Collaboration, Awareness and Continuous Improvement
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field
- Microsoft Security Operations Analyst or equivalent
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Required Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or security operations
- Good understanding of cyber hygiene, threat types, and security principles
- Experience working with and configuring enterprise security tools; experience with the Defender suite is an advantage
- Exposure to auditing and compliance processes
- Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written
- Prior experience working in a group or multi-division structure is an advantage
- Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
- Experience in healthcare, regulated industries, or multi-national environments
- Knowledge of ADHICS (Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard) and its application in healthcare
Required Job Skills and Knowledge
- Information security solutions and how to architect these into broader ICT installation
- Provide input into requirements documents, ensuring security roles, auditing, data protection (in transit and rest), monitoring, etc. are defined in line with approved Information Security policies and standards
- Enterprise security tools (EDR, DLP, SIEM, Mimecast, Security Awareness, etc.)
- Audit and policy compliance
- Change Management methodologies
- Lead professionals through change initiatives and influence collaboration across functional disciplines
All applicants will be considered with the understanding that preference will be given to the designated groups in accordance with the United Arab Emirates Emiratization Program. If you wish to grow with us, apply now and become a part of the company's Family.
