Senior InfoSec Ops & PAM Specialist (DB/API Security)

CPX; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 201,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

CPX in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced information security professional to lead database activity monitoring, API security monitoring, and privileged access management. The role requires deep hands-on domain expertise and strong incident handling capabilities.

You'll work in a 8x5 on-site setting with emphasis on risk assessment, policy tuning, and collaboration with IT teams to ensure compliance and rapid remediation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in information security, security engineering, or security operations.
• Deep hands-on in database activity monitoring, API security, or privileged access management.
• Experience configuring monitoring policies, thresholds, and alert workflows.
• Understanding of database access patterns, API authentication risks, and common attacks.
• Experience with SIEM event forwarding and incident handling.
• Ability to troubleshoot agents, collectors, gateways, and log pipelines.
• Knowledge of DLP, endpoint/XDR, deception, and network security for backup coverage.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain database activity monitoring, API security monitoring and PAM.
• Maintain inventories of monitored databases, APIs, privileged accounts, and systems.
• Validate health of agents, gateways, collectors, and log ingestions.
• Configure policies for privileged activity, sensitive data access, anomalous queries, API attacks.
• Review alerts, assess risk, coordinate investigation and remediation with teams.
• Reconcile APIs and databases with approved inventories and owners.
• Maintain access controls, reviews, and evidence of privileged activity.
• Integrate telemetry with SIEM, ITSM and incident workflows; ensure complete event data and escalation paths.
• Plan changes with testing, rollback, validation, evidence.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, diagrams, and recovery procedures.
• Produce reports on service health, coverage, alerts, risks, remediation.
• Support audits and closure of platform findings.
• Provide first-level backup coverage for DLP, endpoint/XDR, deception and IDS/IPS.

Skills

Database activity monitoring

API security monitoring

Privileged access management

SIEM

Incident handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Job description

CPX in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced information security professional to lead database activity monitoring, API security monitoring, and privileged access management. The role requires deep hands-on domain expertise and strong incident handling capabilities.

You'll work in a 8x5 on-site setting with emphasis on risk assessment, policy tuning, and collaboration with IT teams to ensure compliance and rapid remediation.