Cyber Defense Lead | Remote & Flexible Security Leader

Chalhoub Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Education contribution

Remote and flexible working

Employee discounts

Job summary

The Chalhoub Group in Dubai seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Leader to shape and advance the group's enterprise cyber defense program. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams across DFIR, detection engineering, threat intelligence, and cloud security initiatives.

Join a strategic function driving incident response, security automation, and governance with senior stakeholders, vendors, and partners to elevate resilience across Luxury retail brands and digital platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven leadership scaling cyber defence capabilities.
• Strong incident response, forensics, and threat intel expertise.
• Knowledge of NIST CSF and ISO/IEC 27001.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cyber defence roadmap and operating model.
• Direct DFIR, detection engineering, and threat intelligence teams.
• Establish standards and priorities across security operations.
• Oversee SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR and security monitoring.
• Drive proactive threat hunting and AI-enabled security.
• Manage vendors and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve cyber resilience.

Skills

Cyber Defence Strategy

Team Leadership

Incident Response

Digital Forensics

Detection Engineering

Threat Intelligence

Threat Hunting

AI & Automation

Security Operations

Governance & KPIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

CISSP/CISM/GCFE/GCFA/GCFR/OSCP or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud Security (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Job description

The Chalhoub Group in Dubai seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Leader to shape and advance the group's enterprise cyber defense program. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams across DFIR, detection engineering, threat intelligence, and cloud security initiatives.

Join a strategic function driving incident response, security automation, and governance with senior stakeholders, vendors, and partners to elevate resilience across Luxury retail brands and digital platforms.