Offensive Security And AI Security Senior Expert

Astra Tech; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra Tech in Abu Dhabi seeks a highly experienced Senior Cybersecurity Architect/Engineer specializing in Offensive Security, Red Team operations, AI Security, and Enterprise Security Architecture. The role combines hands-on security engineering with designing and validating enterprise-wide security controls across cloud-native environments, applications, infrastructure, and AI-enabled platforms.

You will lead DevSecOps, cloud and on-prem security, threat detection, incident response, data

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on cybersecurity engineering or architecture experience.
• At least 5 years leading offensive security engagements or Red Team operations.
• Experience coordinating Red, Blue, and Purple Team activities.
• Strong knowledge of attack techniques (SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, RCE, IDOR).
• Experience with Windows and Linux enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with offensive security tools (Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus).
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security, container security, and IaC scanning.
• Strong cloud security architecture knowledge (Azure preferred; AWS/multi-cloud beneficial).
• Experience designing AI security controls for LLM apps and AI platforms.
• Ability to lead complex security projects from architecture to delivery.

Skills

Offensive Security

Red Team

Purple Team

AI Security

Cloud Security

DevSecOps

CI/CD Security

Container Security

IaC Scanning

Threat Modeling

Vulnerability Assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Nmap

Nessus

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Description:

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Senior Cybersecurity Architect/Engineer specialising in Offensive Security, Red Team operations, AI Security, and Enterprise Security Architecture. The successful candidate will combine strong offensive security expertise with the ability to design, implement, and validate enterprise-wide security controls across cloud-native environments, applications, infrastructure, and AI-enabled platforms.

Responsibilities

2. DevSecOps & Secure Engineering

3. Cloud & Enterprise Security Architecture

4. Security Operations, Threat Detection & Incident Response

5. AI Security Architecture & Implementation

6. Data Security, Privacy & Governance

7. Security Risk, Compliance & Governance

Requirements

• Offensive Security, Red Team & Purple Team Operations
• Lead Red Team engagements, including planning, scoping, execution, resource allocation, quality assurance, and reporting.
• Manage internal Red Team resources and external penetration testing and vulnerability assessment (VAPT) providers.
• Execute adversarial simulations covering initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, identity compromise, and Active Directory attack paths.
• Conduct penetration testing across web applications, infrastructure, networks, and enterprise environments.
• Lead Purple Team exercises to validate detection and response capabilities and identify gaps in existing security controls.
• Translate offensive security findings into actionable remediation plans and improvements to detection engineering.
• Develop or adapt attack scripts, automation, and custom tooling to simulate advanced adversarial scenarios.
• Integrate security testing into CI/CD pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning.
• Implement automated security gates, policy-as-code, and security validation workflows.
• Establish secure development practices across containerised environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, and artifact registries.
• Collaborate with software engineering and platform teams to embed security controls throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Automate security checks, compliance validation, and remediation processes wherever possible.
• Design and implement security architecture and guardrails across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Define controls for identity and access management, privileged access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and workload protection.
• Establish secure configuration baselines and integrate security requirements into cloud adoption and infrastructure deployment.
• Assess cloud environments against recognised security frameworks and benchmarks, prioritising risks and coordinating remediation.
• Design and validate disaster recovery, high availability, and resilience strategies across infrastructure, identity, networks, and applications.
• Conduct recovery and failover testing to validate security controls and identify weaknesses in backup, recovery, and resilience mechanisms.
• Improve security monitoring and threat detection capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Develop and optimise SIEM detection rules, log ingestion, alert triage, and threat-hunting processes.
• Lead incident response activities, including investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
• Integrate threat intelligence and adversary techniques into detection engineering and proactive threat hunting.
• Work closely with Red and Blue Teams to improve detection coverage, response effectiveness, and overall security maturity.
• Design and implement security controls across the AI/ML lifecycle, including data protection, model access, application security, and AI supply-chain risk.
• Assess the security of LLM-powered applications, AI agents, and AI platforms.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, data leakage, excessive agency, and model-related vulnerabilities.
• Implement AI security guardrails, monitoring, adversarial testing, and secure integration patterns for AI-enabled applications.
• Translate emerging AI security risks, standards, and regulatory requirements into practical architecture, policies, and engineering controls.
• Support the secure adoption of AI technologies across enterprise environments.
• Design and implement data security controls covering data classification, discovery, inventory, retention, and secure handling.
• Implement encryption, key management, tokenisation, data loss prevention (DLP), and data access governance.
• Strengthen security across databases, storage platforms, and structured and unstructured data environments.
• Collaborate with privacy, legal, and business stakeholders to ensure data processing complies with relevant regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Support privacy impact assessments and the implementation of appropriate technical safeguards.
• Conduct security risk assessments, control reviews, and compliance gap assessments.
• Support compliance with applicable frameworks and regulations, including ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Controls, PCI DSS, GDPR, and relevant UAE regulatory requirements.
• Translate business and regulatory obligations into practical technical security controls.
• Track remediation of audit findings, vulnerabilities, risk exceptions, and control gaps.
• Provide clear reporting on security risks, remediation progress, and control effectiveness to technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering or architecture experience.
• At least 5 years of experience leading or managing offensive security engagements, Red Team operations, or equivalent security assessment activities.
• Demonstrable experience coordinating Red Team, Blue Team, and Purple Team activities.
• Strong technical understanding of common attack techniques, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), server-side request forgery (SSRF), remote code execution (RCE), and insecure direct object references (IDOR).
• Experience assessing Windows and Linux environments, enterprise networks, identity systems, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and attack paths.
• Practical familiarity with offensive security tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, and Nessus.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD security integration, container security, and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture, preferably within Microsoft Azure, with AWS or multi-cloud experience also beneficial.
• Experience designing or implementing AI security controls for LLM applications, AI agents, or AI platforms.
• Knowledge of data protection, encryption, secrets management, identity security, and privacy controls.
• Ability to lead complex security projects from architecture and implementation through testing, delivery, and operational handover.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security risks and solutions to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Requirements