Security Engineer

Charterhouse Middle East; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Security Engineer to enhance cloud security and optimize CI/CD pipelines. You will secure cloud environments, manage incident responses, and embed security into development practices. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security, with a minimum of three years in security engineering. This position offers family benefits and a progressive work environment focusing on innovation.

Benefits

Family benefits

Innovation-led environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in security engineering or application security.
• Experience delivering engineered controls at scale.
• Hands-on practice with vulnerability assessment.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate layered cloud security.
• Integrate automated vulnerability checks across the SDLC.
• Manage incident response including root-cause analysis.

Skills

Scripting or programming language proficiency

CI/CD and infrastructure as code experience

Incident response skills

Familiarity with industry security frameworks

Understanding of LLM security basics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

AWS

SIEM

Job description

Location: Abu Dhabi | Salary: AED 35,000 - 45,000 Per Month | Job Type: Permanent | Discipline: IT & Technology

About the Role

The Security Engineer will be responsible for securing cloud environments (AWS preferred) and containerized workloads, embedding security into Git-based CI/CD pipelines, and hardening Linux systems. The role includes designing and operating layered cloud security, implementing secure patterns for orchestration, and governing software supply chain integrity through artifact and package controls.

This role will integrate automated vulnerability checks across the SDLC, manage incident response including root-cause analysis and forensics, and build telemetry pipelines feeding SIEM for actionable detection and alerting.

Additional responsibilities involve defining secure-by-default architectures, enforcing policy guardrails, conducting security trainings, and enabling developer teams with practical secure coding guidance. The Security Engineer will configure and optimize WAF/CDN protections, enforce software supply chain integrity through artifact governance and SBOMs, and develop DevSecOps automation to embed security checks and guardrails into pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate layered cloud security, implementing secure patterns for orchestration.
• Govern software supply chain integrity through artifact and package controls.
• Integrate automated vulnerability checks across the SDLC, manage incident response including root-cause analysis and forensics.
• Build telemetry pipelines feeding SIEM for actionable detection and alerting.
• Define secure-by-default architectures, enforce policy guardrails, conduct security trainings, enable developer teams with secure coding guidance.
• Configure and optimize WAF/CDN protections, develop DevSecOps automation to embed security checks into pipelines.

About You

The ideal Security Engineer will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience, and at least three years of experience in security engineering, application security, or DevSecOps delivering engineered controls at scale.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one modern scripting or programming language for automation and integrations.
• Experience operating CI/CD and infrastructure as code with security controls baked into pipelines.
• Hands‑on practice with SIEM, detection engineering, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.
• Familiarity with industry security frameworks and benchmarks, understanding of LLM security basics.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Security Specialty, OSCP or OSWE, CKS, GIAC GCSA, GCIA, GCIH strongly preferred.

Benefits

Family benefits and a forward-thinking, innovation‑led environment.