Cyber Defense Engineer: Continuous Blue-Team Validation

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Abu Dhabi-based role

Job summary

Unknown Client in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen blue-team capabilities by translating security requirements and threat intelligence into repeatable validation tests. You will assess changes across cloud, infrastructure, and AI model supply-chains, ensuring safeguards perform before operation.

Success means translating attack techniques into tests, consolidating findings, and tracking remediation to closure within established SLAs.

Qualifications

• Several years of practical experience in cyber security engineering, blue-team operations, offensive security, security validation, or a closely related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute continuous blue-team validation for significant technology deployments across cloud, infrastructure, artificial-intelligence, and model supply-chain environments.
• Translate the approved threat coverage matrix into practical validation scenarios, test cases, and release-readiness evidence.
• Monitor MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Large Language Model, and related intelligence sources for techniques relevant to banking environments.
• Convert newly identified attack methods into repeatable automated or semi-automated tests within the seven-day service-level target.
• Use autonomous penetration-testing and adversarial validation capabilities to assess control effectiveness without disrupting critical services.
• Coordinate with security, engineering, risk, and technology stakeholders to schedule testing around significant deployments and material changes.
• Consolidate, deduplicate, classify, and maintain findings through platforms such as DefectDojo and Attestation.
• Track remediation against severity-based SLAs and verify corrective evidence before recommending closure.
• Apply mean-time-to-remediation gates and confirm unresolved material issues are addressed before redeployment.
• Produce management information covering open findings, remediation performance, and gate outcomes.
• Maintain clear records distinguishing first-line control validation from independent unknown-scenario red teaming.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing methods, automation, reporting, and threat-informed assurance.

Skills

Blue-team validation

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Autonomous testing

AI security testing

MITRE ATLAS

Tools

AWS Security Agent

Horizon3

Garak

PyRIT

Claude Security

Opus 4.x

Codex

Job description

Unknown Client in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen blue-team capabilities by translating security requirements and threat intelligence into repeatable validation tests. You will assess changes across cloud, infrastructure, and AI model supply-chains, ensuring safeguards perform before operation.

Success means translating attack techniques into tests, consolidating findings, and tracking remediation to closure within established SLAs.