Cyber Defense & Incident Response Lead

Confidential; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Cybersecurity professional to lead threat monitoring, incident response, and assurance. You will coordinate security operations across defense, detection, and response, leveraging threat intelligence and analytics.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity with a focus on defense and assurance, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate risk to management and IT teams. You will oversee VAPT and Red Teaming activities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on defense and assurance.
• Experience leading threat monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response teams.
• Ability to translate security findings into business risk and remediation actions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee threat monitoring and detection efforts, ensuring emerging threats are identified and addressed promptly.
• Lead incident response coordination and manage the incident response team for containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Refine threat intelligence feeds, identify information gaps, and improve intelligence reporting.
• Drive proactive threat hunting leveraging threat intel and behavior analytics.
• Improve adaptive readiness by enhancing threat detection and response capabilities.
• Direct digital forensics investigations to support incident response and recovery.
• Lead security assurance activities to safeguard cybersecurity assets across the Company.
• Communicate findings and business impact to management and IT teams to support remediation.
• Oversee planning and execution of VAPT, Red Teaming, and configuration reviews across assets.

Skills

Threat monitoring

Incident response

Threat intel

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Crisis management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/Info Security/CS

Job description

Confidential in Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Cybersecurity professional to lead threat monitoring, incident response, and assurance. You will coordinate security operations across defense, detection, and response, leveraging threat intelligence and analytics.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity with a focus on defense and assurance, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate risk to management and IT teams. You will oversee VAPT and Red Teaming activities.