Senior Cyber Security Engineer: AI & Continuous Validation

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to lead continuous security validation across cloud, AI, and applications within a banking environment. You will design and execute automated validation, run adversarial testing, and develop test suites aligned with the latest threat intelligence.

The role requires 8–10 years in cyber security engineering or red team roles, with strong knowledge of offensive security, AI security, and DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in Cyber Security Engineering, Penetration Testing, Security Validation, or Red Team operations.
• Proven experience implementing automated and continuous security validation capabilities.
• Hands-on cloud security testing across AWS and hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS, and AI security concepts.
• Experience in AI red teaming and Generative AI security assessments.
• Familiarity with modern security validation platforms and attack simulation technologies.
• Experience managing vulnerability remediation and security findings lifecycle.
• Strong secure SDLC and DevSecOps understanding, and banking controls knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Continuous Security Validation programs across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and AI environments.
• Execute automated security validation activities against approved threat scenarios and attack simulations.
• Develop and maintain cyber security test suites aligned with threat intelligence and emerging attack techniques.
• Perform AI security assessments and adversarial testing against AI systems and GenAI platforms.
• Collaborate with security architecture, cloud, platform, and engineering teams to improve cyber resilience.
• Manage vulnerability findings and remediation workflows across engineering teams.

Skills

Offensive Security

Adversarial Testing

Application Security

AI Security

Security Validation

Threat Emulation

Job description

Halian Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to lead continuous security validation across cloud, AI, and applications within a banking environment. You will design and execute automated validation, run adversarial testing, and develop test suites aligned with the latest threat intelligence.

The role requires 8–10 years in cyber security engineering or red team roles, with strong knowledge of offensive security, AI security, and DevSecOps practices.