SecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & API Defense

Astra Tech Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra Tech Group is seeking a detail-oriented SecOps Engineer to join our security team in Abu Dhabi. You will support and enhance security operations and engineering capabilities, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing key security frameworks, controls, and tools to safeguard our infrastructure, applications, and data assets.

You will work across Azure cloud security, access management, DPIA, GDPR compliance, WAF, MDC, and SIEM integrations while collaborating with developers to remediate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 3–4 years of hands‑on experience in information security operations or engineering.
• Familiar with DevSecOps security, SAST, application security, API security and cloud operation.
• Familiar with GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP, PCI DSS.
• Exposure to cloud security tooling, preferably Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure ecosystem.
• Experience with ITSM platforms (e.g., Freshworks, Jira Service Management) and WAF/SOC tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain security frameworks for building and deploying new applications, including third-party risk assessments, access management, and least privilege reviews.
• Conduct API and API key security assessment.
• Monitor and review WAF, SOC integrations, and Cloud security tooling (MDC).
• Perform security testing on login portals to ensure strong authentication controls are implemented and remediate gaps.
• Review and enforce secrets management practices using Key Vault solutions.
• Prepare security reports, trackers, and documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams to integrate security controls into infrastructure and applications.

Skills

DevSecOps security

SAST

Application security

API security

Cloud operations

Authentication mechanisms

Security frameworks awareness

Threat monitoring

Security reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

Jira Service Management

Freshworks

Azure Defender for Cloud

Azure Key Vault

WAF

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)

Job description

Astra Tech Group is seeking a detail-oriented SecOps Engineer to join our security team in Abu Dhabi. You will support and enhance security operations and engineering capabilities, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing key security frameworks, controls, and tools to safeguard our infrastructure, applications, and data assets.

You will work across Azure cloud security, access management, DPIA, GDPR compliance, WAF, MDC, and SIEM integrations while collaborating with developers to remediate