Dubai Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Incident Response & MDR

Emerald Zebra - Recruitment & Executive Search; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Medical Insurance starting day 1

Training and development opportunities

Well-stocked office

Global/ multinational culture

Team-building events

Job summary

Emerald Zebra Executive Search in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the security team and protect our infrastructure across endpoint, email, network, and web-facing payment platforms.

The role blends senior security operations, incident ownership, detection engineering, and hands-on administration of the enterprise security stack (EDR, SIEM, DLP, WAF, DDoS) within a PCI DSS framework.

Qualifications

• 7 years hands-on cybersecurity / security operations / security engineering.
• Experience evidencing controls under PCI DSS and related standards.
• Incident-response ownership across full lifecycle from triage to review.
• Experience with MDR/managed SOC including escalation governance and SLAs.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own incident response end-to-end during business hours and manage escalation.
• Act as technical owner of co-sourced MDR service and ensure SLAs.
• Operate and harden SIEM/XDR/EDR, email security, DLP, SASE, VPN, WAF, DDoS.
• Drive PCI DSS technical controls with Cybersecurity Lead and QSA input.
• Review phishing, investigate malware, document incidents, and mentor staff.

Skills

SIEM/XDR/EDR ops

Incident response ownership

PCI DSS / compliance

MDR / SOC governance

Network security fundamentals

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Information Security

Tools

Check Point Harmony

Cloudflare WAF

DLP / SASE tools

EDR tooling

Job description

Emerald Zebra Executive Search in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the security team and protect our infrastructure across endpoint, email, network, and web-facing payment platforms.

The role blends senior security operations, incident ownership, detection engineering, and hands-on administration of the enterprise security stack (EDR, SIEM, DLP, WAF, DDoS) within a PCI DSS framework.