Senior Security Specialist - Cybersecurity
Description
1. Mandatory Technical Requirements – Network Security
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Palo Alto Networks NGFW: Configuration, deployment, security policies, NAT, VPN, GlobalProtect, HA, security profiles, and Panorama management.
- Fortinet FortiGate: Firewall deployment, FortiOS administration, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, IPS, VPN, SD-WAN, HA, and troubleshooting.
- Network security architecture, routing, switching, VLANs, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and network segmentation.
- Firewall migration, firmware upgrades, performance optimization, and security hardening.
- Ability to independently manage customer implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations.
2. Additional Cybersecurity Technologies – Multi-Vendor Capabilities
The candidate should have practical experience in at least three of the following security domains, with the ability to develop expertise across additional technologies:
- NDR (Network Detection & Response): ExtraHop, LinkShadow, or equivalent.
- PAM (Privileged Access Management): CyberArk, Xage, FortiPAM, or equivalent.
- DAM (Database Activity Monitoring): Imperva, IBM Guardium, or equivalent.
- IAM / MFA: Entrust, OpenText, Microsoft Entra ID, or equivalent.
- Endpoint Security / EDR / XDR: Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Trend Micro, Microsoft Defender, or equivalent.
- SIEM / SOC Solutions: Splunk, Elastic, LogRhythm, or equivalent.
- DLP / Data Security: Forcepoint, Fortra, Thales, or equivalent.
- WAF / API Security: F5, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fortinet, or equivalent.
- Vulnerability Management: Tenable, Qualys, or equivalent.
- Zero Trust / ZTNA / SASE: Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Access, or equivalent.
3. Implementation & Technical Delivery Responsibilities
The selected candidate will be responsible for:
- Leading cybersecurity solution deployments, configurations, and integrations.
- Supporting Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV) activities.
- Providing L2/L3 troubleshooting and post-implementation technical support.
- Conducting technical health checks, upgrades, and security optimization.
- Preparing High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), implementation plans, and as-built documentation.
- Working closely with Presales, Sales, Project Management, and vendor technical teams.
- Supporting customer demonstrations, technical workshops, and knowledge transfer.
- Managing multiple cybersecurity projects and technologies simultaneously.
- Maintaining technical relationships with vendors and distributors.
- Participating in technical training and certifications for new cybersecurity solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience.
- Previous experience with a System Integrator, MSSP, or enterprise cybersecurity implementation team is highly preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and customer communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple technical responsibilities.
- Good command of English and Arabic.
- Willingness to attend customer sites and support critical implementations when required.
Benefits
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Skills
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