Senior Staff Security Engineer-SDLC, Cloud & Payments

Digital Zone; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-the-market compensation

Team with regional security leaders

Job summary

DigitalZone in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Senior Security Architect who will set technical direction across application, cloud, payment, and identity flows. This is the most senior IC security role; you own hard problems, read code, build tooling, and deliver hands-on security improvements.

You will design and mature the secure SDLC, drive vulnerability management, and establish secure-by-design patterns for authentication, IAM, and infrastructure security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software or security engineering with hands-on depth across application security, cloud security, and detection and response.
• Strong track record threat modeling and securing systems handling payments or sensitive data.
• Solid engineering fundamentals in AWS security, modern authentication/authorization patterns, and at least one core language.
• Familiarity with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, OWASP, SOC 2 and how to operationalize them without slowing delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and mature the secure SDLC to support engineers in remediation of findings.
• Run vulnerability management and coordinate penetration tests with key metrics.
• Define secure-by-design patterns for authentication, authorization, cloud networking, secrets management, and IAM.
• Act as primary liaison between customers and security vendors, aligning on findings and risk priorities.

Skills

Senior security engineering

Application Security

Cloud Security

Threat Modeling

Vulnerability Management

Compliance frameworks

Tools

AWS Security

Job description

DigitalZone in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Senior Security Architect who will set technical direction across application, cloud, payment, and identity flows. This is the most senior IC security role; you own hard problems, read code, build tooling, and deliver hands-on security improvements.

You will design and mature the secure SDLC, drive vulnerability management, and establish secure-by-design patterns for authentication, IAM, and infrastructure security.