Senior Cyber Security Validation Manager

Client of Forsyth Barnes; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Forsyth Barnes in Abu Dhabi seeks a Senior Manager Cyber Security Engineers to lead continuous risk validation across the banking environment, turning threat intel into automated tests for cloud, infra, AI systems and model supply chains.

You will drive strategy with stakeholders, manage validation findings in DefectDojo/Attestation, and maintain Power BI dashboards for executive reporting, remediation metrics and deployment assurance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cyber security engineering, offensive security, adversarial validation, or comparable assurance functions within a complex enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap and day-to-day operation of continuous cyber security control validation.
• Direct automated testing across cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, AI applications, LLM use cases and model supply chains.
• Translate second-line-approved threat scenarios into a structured coverage matrix and maintain alignment with business risk.
• Manage the ingestion of MITRE ATLAS and OWASP LLM threat intelligence using Jira automation to meet the seven-day service-level agreement for new techniques.
• Turn emerging attack methods into practical validation test cases and ensure they are deployed within the agreed operational timeframe.
• Oversee the aggregation, deduplication, ownership and lifecycle management of findings through platforms such as DefectDojo and Attestation.
• Set severity-based remediation targets and enforce mean-time-to-remediate gates before re-deployment approval.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, risk and technology teams to resolve material weaknesses and improve control effectiveness.
• Maintain Power BI reporting for open findings, remediation performance, pipeline-gate pass rates, threat coverage and prompt-injection block rates.
• Provide concise management information on exposure trends, exceptions, overdue actions and deployment assurance.
• Establish quality standards for validation evidence, test repeatability, scenario traceability and audit readiness.
• Keep first-line control validation clearly separated from second-line independent red teaming, escalation and challenge activities

Skills

Cyber security leadership

Automated testing

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Security testing automation

MITRE ATLAS

OWASP LLM

DefectDojo

Attestation

Power BI reporting

Executive reporting

Tools

AWS Security Agent

Horizon3

DefectDojo

Attestation

Garak

PyRIT

Claude Security

Opus 4.x

Codex

Job description

Client of Forsyth Barnes in Abu Dhabi seeks a Senior Manager Cyber Security Engineers to lead continuous risk validation across the banking environment, turning threat intel into automated tests for cloud, infra, AI systems and model supply chains.

You will drive strategy with stakeholders, manage validation findings in DefectDojo/Attestation, and maintain Power BI dashboards for executive reporting, remediation metrics and deployment assurance.