Specialist - Cybersecurity Resilience

The Cybersecurity Resilience Engineeris responsible forensuring the organization's ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and disruptive security events. This role focuses on strengthening resilience through advanced security engineering, incident readiness, vulnerability mitigation, and implementation of continuity capabilities aligned with enterprise security policies, regulatory frameworks, and best practices.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to cybersecurity resilience strategy, frameworks, and programs that align with organizationalobjectives.
• Support senior management in defining cybersecurity continuity capabilities and risk reduction programs.
• Participate in cybersecurity maturity assessments and contribute to roadmaps for resilience improvement.
• Providesubject-matterexpertiseduring internal security governance and risk discussions.

Cyber Resilience & Engineering

• Develop, implement, andmaintaincyber resilience controls across infrastructure, cloud, OT/ICS, applications, and network systems.
• Implement security resilience technologies such as backup integrity validation, endpoint recovery workflows, privileged access resilience, and network segmentation.
• Engineer and automate resilience capabilities for rapid recovery during cyber incidents.
• Conduct resilience testing, including tabletop exercises, failover drills, ransomware simulations, and incident response readiness assessments.

Threat & Vulnerability Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate vulnerabilities that couldimpactbusiness continuity or recovery.
• Work with IT/OT teams to ensuretimelypatching, configuration hardening, and implementation of compensating controls.
• Collaborate with SOC and threat intelligence teams to incorporate resilience measures for emerging threats.

Incident Response & Business Continuity Alignment

• Support incident response activities, ensuring resilience mechanisms are activated and functional.
• Maintain cyber incident response playbooks withfocuson isolation, containment, and rapid restoration.
• Collaborate with business continuity and disaster recovery teams to align cyber resilience practices.

Security Tools & Technology Operations

• Manage deployment, monitoring, and optimization of cyber resilience tools (EDR, XDR, backup security, PAM, SIEM integrations).
• Ensure secure configuration and operational stability of resilience platforms.
• Support integration and automation between cybersecurity and IT systems.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.
• CISSP, CISM, CCSP
• CEH, ECIH, GCIH
• CompTIACySA+, Security+
• SANS cyber resilience or IR certifications (bonus)
• 5–8 years of hands‑on experience in cybersecurity engineering, incident response, or cyber resilience.
• Experience in cyber resilience domains such as backup security, DR/BC cyber alignment, endpoint recovery, incident containment, threat mitigation, or network hardening.
• Experience supporting resilience activities in hybrid IT/OT environments is an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in using cybersecurity tools (XDR/EDR, SIEM, PAM, vulnerability scanners, backup security platforms).
• This role is reserved for UAE Nationals only.

Job Info

• Job Identification 10370
• Job Category Professional
• Posting Date 03/03/2026, 06:30 AM
• Locations Emirates General Petroleum Corporation, Dubai, 9400, AE
• Apply Before 03/13/2026, 06:30 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day