Manager - IT Security Delivery

Qiddiya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya, Riyadh, seeks a seasoned IT Security readiness engineer to own governance, test planning, and controlled handover across corporate and asset IT security programs.

You will manage exit gates, validation packs, and RAID logs, ensuring timely defect resolution and strong cross-team collaboration for first-pass acceptance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity is required.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Readiness governance and gates across environments and sign-off risks.
• Test planning, data, and environments including end-to-end test plans.
• Defect, risk, and issue management with RAID logs and SLAs.
• Validation packs creation, traceability, and quick returns resolution.
• Handover readiness with runbooks, SLOs, and DR artifacts.
• Stakeholder coordination, comms plans, and governance dashboards.
• Continuous improvement of readiness processes.
• Security control evaluation and PoC activities.

Skills

IT Security

Governance

Test planning

Defect management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity (preferred)

Job description

JOB PURPOSE:

Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with the Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs.

Core Responsibilities:

Readiness governance and gates

• Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback).
• Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off.
• Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods.

Test planning, data, and environments

• Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios.
• Ensure observer participation (Ops, platform SMEs) for test credibility.

Defect, risk, and issue management

• Manage defect triage; assign owners/severity; track fix SLAs and re-tests.
• Maintain RAID logs; esc...

Validation packs and traceability

• Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability matrices); ensure versioned storage and approvals.
• Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by QA/Excellence and ensure quick resolution of returns.

Handover and run readiness

• Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts.
• Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live.

Stakeholder coordination and communications

• Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules.
• Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums.

Continuous improvement

• Track change success rate and checklists accordingly.

Security Control Evaluation, POC, and Implementation

• Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs.
• Oversee Proof of Concept activities, including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting.
• Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value.
• Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred.

Years of Experience:

• 6-8 years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT security delivery across corporate and asset environments.