Al Futtaim Jobs - Cyber Defense/Security Manager (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: 54065 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, Robinsons, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

Come join us to live well, work better, and be the best.

ROLE PURPOSE:

 

Provide security services to the enterprise with 24x7 continuous security monitoring of the technology landscape, correlative analysis for proactive risk detection and threat intelligence. Validate security monitoring requirements for any change in environments, in line with Al-Futtaim Group Information Security policies, processes and standards.

 

KEY ROLE SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

 

• Primarily responsible for security event monitoring, management and response
• Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring
• Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives.
• Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework.
• Perform threat management, threat modelling, identify threat vectors and playbooks for security monitoring.
• Responsible for integration of standard and non-standard logs in SIEM.
• Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to Sr. Mgmt.
• Reviews asset discovery and vulnerability assessment data.
• Explores ways to identify stealthy threats that may have found their way inside your network, without your detection, using the latest threat intelligence
• Reviews penetration tests on production systems to validate resiliency and identify areas of weakness to fix.
• Recommends how to optimize security monitoring tools based on threat-hunting discoveries.
• Implement Emergency Changes related to Security Incidents and manages retrospect RFC’s.
• Submits security device configuration RFC’s to services team for security related changes (security monitoring tools, IDS, correlation rules, etc.)

 

PERSON SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

 

Education:

Degree in Engineering or equivalent. Should also have at least one of following the certifications, CISSP, GCIH, GCFE.

 

Minimum Experience and Knowledge:

Minimum of 10 years of experience in the Security Operations, Cybersecurity Design, NOC/SOC Management. Knowledge on International Standards such as ISO31000, ISO27005, ISO20000, PCI-DSS, ITIL, COBIT, Cyber Security standards, Playbook Design, etc.

 

Job-Specific Skills:

Base experience in setting up and running of Global Security Operations Centre and have managed the overall Threat Intelligence gathering, interpretation and governance.

 

COMPETENCIES:

 

Functional:

• Expert

Security Operations Center

Risk Management

Cybersecurity Solution design

IT Security Management

In-depth knowledge of OS technologies (wintel / *Nix)

In-depth knowledge on SIEM Technologies, IPS and Network Design

Cloud Technologies (design, configuration and operational management)

Endpoint protection

Microsoft Security Azure Suite

Vulnerability Management

• Advanced

Service Management

IT Project Management

IT Vendor Management

Infrastructure and Technology

• Proficient

Business Process Design

Application Implementation

 

 

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