Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Incident Response & PCI DSS

finera.; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance Day 1

Training Resources

Office Snacks

Multinational Culture

Team Events

Employee Recognition

Job summary

finera. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the security team and protect our payment platforms across endpoints, email, network, and web-facing systems. You will own incidents end-to-end, participate in governance, and drive the maturity of the function within a PCI DSS framework.

The role combines hands-on engineering with security operations, including detection engineering, escalation, and out-of-hours service ownership in a fast-paced, compliance-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ hands-on cybersecurity / security operations / security engineering experience, including senior/lead roles.
• Experience evidencing PCI DSS controls and/or ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks.
• Proven incident-response ownership across full lifecycle.
• Experience with MDR/managed SOC services, including SLA governance.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Triage and own incidents end-to-end during business hours; manage containment, eradication and recovery.
• Own co-sourced MDR service for out-of-hours coverage; oversee escalation and SLAs.
• Operate and harden SIEM/XDR/EDR, email security, DLP, SASE/VPN, WAF, DDoS; update playbooks.
• Drive PCI DSS technical controls inputs with Cybersecurity Lead and QSA (Cloudflare WAF/DDoS inputs).
• Review phishing and malware, handle security tickets, assist access reviews and audits.
• Author and maintain SOPs, runbooks and incident reports; mentor staff.

Skills

SIEM/XDR/EDR operations

Email security

WAF & API security

Network fundamentals

Documentation & comms

Education

CS/InfoSec degree

Tools

Check Point Harmony

Cloudflare Enterprise

EDR tooling

SIEM

Job description

finera. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the security team and protect our payment platforms across endpoints, email, network, and web-facing systems. You will own incidents end-to-end, participate in governance, and drive the maturity of the function within a PCI DSS framework.

The role combines hands-on engineering with security operations, including detection engineering, escalation, and out-of-hours service ownership in a fast-paced, compliance-driven environment.