Senior Security Engineer - Cloud, Apps & Data Protection

Nelum; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Nelum is a technology company building compliance-as-a-service and market-access infrastructure for artisanal and small-scale mining and the wider commodities sector. The platform helps licensed miners become verified, compliant and buyer-ready, with international reach across supply chains.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to protect identity documents, company records and audit trails across the application, the cloud platform and third-party services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in application or cloud security, ideally in regulated sectors.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms, web app security and incident response.
• Ability to develop and lead incident response and security testing programs.

Responsibilities

• Review and harden authentication, authorization and access rules across the web app, APIs, database and storage.
• Secure the cloud environment: IAM, secrets, network exposure and deployment pipelines.
• Build security checks into CI so that a regression fails a build rather than reaching production.
• Establish logging, monitoring and alerting across the platform.
• Own the incident-response plan and lead the response when an incident occurs.
• Commission and follow up penetration tests and review vendor security.

Skills

Cloud security

Application security

Incident response

Penetration testing

Education

CISSP, CISM, OSCP or equivalent certification

Job description

Nelum is a technology company building compliance-as-a-service and market-access infrastructure for artisanal and small-scale mining and the wider commodities sector. The platform helps licensed miners become verified, compliant and buyer-ready, with international reach across supply chains.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to protect identity documents, company records and audit trails across the application, the cloud platform and third-party services.