Onsite Encryption Lead - Dammam (Senior Technical Manager)

CCDS; Dammam; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

CCDS in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, seeks an experienced Senior Encryption / Onsite Technical Lead to drive encryption, KMS, and HSM activities for a major enterprise cybersecurity project. You will coordinate with entity teams, OEMs, stakeholders, and technical specialists to ensure quality, documentation, testing, and timely escalation of issues.

The role requires leading onsite technical execution, compliance with designs and standards, and mentoring engineers across cryptographic workstreams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or Information Technology.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in cybersecurity, encryption, key management, HSM, information security, or related technical environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise security technology implementations.
• Strong understanding of encryption, KMS, HSM, PKI, cryptographic key lifecycle management, and security operations.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and working directly with enterprise/government stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
• Previous experience in Saudi government, regulated, or critical infrastructure environments is highly preferred.
• Must be willing to work full-time onsite in Dammam.

Responsibilities

• Lead onsite implementation and operational activities related to encryption, KMS, HSM, and cryptographic security solutions.
• Coordinate technical activities between the project team, stakeholders, OEMs, and relevant infrastructure teams.
• Review and approve technical changes, configurations, implementation plans, and operational procedures.
• Supervise encryption, key management, and HSM-related activities.
• Ensure compliance with approved technical designs, security requirements, and project standards.
• Lead technical testing, integration validation, acceptance activities, and remediation of findings.
• Review and maintain HLD, LLD, configuration documents, runbooks, test cases, and operational documentation.
• Monitor the quality and progress of technical implementation activities and ensure issues are escalated/resolved.
• Coordinate with database, network, infrastructure, security, SOC, and application teams where required.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers in encryption and security workstreams.
• Support knowledge transfer and transition from implementation to BAU operations.
• Participate in technical meetings, status reviews, and project governance activities.
• Support incident investigation and complex technical troubleshooting.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Encryption

KMS

HSM

PKI

Project Execution

Incident Management

Technical Documentation

Stakeholder Management

OEM Coordination

Education

Cybersecurity

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Network Engineering

Information Technology

Job description

CCDS in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, seeks an experienced Senior Encryption / Onsite Technical Lead to drive encryption, KMS, and HSM activities for a major enterprise cybersecurity project. You will coordinate with entity teams, OEMs, stakeholders, and technical specialists to ensure quality, documentation, testing, and timely escalation of issues.

The role requires leading onsite technical execution, compliance with designs and standards, and mentoring engineers across cryptographic workstreams.