Hands-on Cybersecurity & Cloud Defense Engineer

Dubai Careers - A Smart Dubai Initiative; Dubai; On-site; AED 268,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University seeks a hands-on Cybersecurity Specialist to perform pen testing, security monitoring, and vulnerability management across Azure and AWS environments. You will assess risks, tune SIEM alerts, and coordinate remediation with IT teams to strengthen identity, networks, and web applications.

The role requires strong governance knowledge and the ability to work with enterprise infrastructure, AD, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security controls implementation and improvement in enterprise environments.
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Responsibilities

• Conduct penetration testing and security assessments of web apps, APIs, networks, servers, and AD.
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Skills

Penetration testing

Security monitoring

Vulnerability management

Cybersecurity governance

Azure/AWS security

Active Directory security

SIEM platforms

Network security

Threat hunting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS

OSCP/OSWE/OSEP

Tools

Burp Suite

Nmap

Metasploit

Wazuh

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Job description

Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University seeks a hands-on Cybersecurity Specialist to perform pen testing, security monitoring, and vulnerability management across Azure and AWS environments. You will assess risks, tune SIEM alerts, and coordinate remediation with IT teams to strengthen identity, networks, and web applications.

The role requires strong governance knowledge and the ability to work with enterprise infrastructure, AD, and cloud platforms.