Specialist - Cybersecurity Resilience

Role Overview

Specialist - Cybersecurity Resilience at Emarat (Emirates General Petroleum), based in the UAE. This role is reserved for UAE Nationals only.

Role Purpose

Ensure the organization's ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and disruptive security events. Strengthen 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

Strategy & Governance

• Contribute to cybersecurity resilience strategy, frameworks, and programs that align with organizational objectives.
• Support senior management in defining cybersecurity continuity capabilities and risk reduction programs.
• Participate in cybersecurity maturity assessments and contribute to roadmaps for resilience improvement.
• Provide subject-matter expertise during internal security governance and risk discussions.

Cyber Resilience & Engineering

• Develop, implement, and maintain cyber 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 could impact business continuity or recovery.
• Work with IT and OT teams to ensure timely patching, 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 with focus on 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 including EDR, XDR, backup security, PAM, and SIEM integrations.
• Ensure secure configuration and operational stability of resilience platforms.
• Support integration and automation between cybersecurity and IT systems.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience using cybersecurity tools including XDR, EDR, SIEM, PAM, vulnerability scanners, and backup security platforms.
• Experience supporting resilience activities in hybrid IT and OT environments is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• CISSP, CISM, or CCSP certification (preferred).
• CEH, ECIH, or GCIH certification (preferred).
• CompTIA CySA+ or Security+ certification (preferred).
• SANS cyber resilience or incident response certifications (bonus).