Senior Manager - CyberSecurity Engineer
Socium - Teams Done Differently · Abu Dhabi
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Manager – Cyber Security Engineer to lead continuous security validation and offensive security activities within a regulated banking environment. The role is ideal for a hands‑on cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in penetration testing, adversary simulation, threat‑driven security testing, and AI security assessments.
Key responsibilities
- Lead continuous security validation programs across cloud, infrastructure, applications and AI systems.
- Design and execute offensive security assessments, including penetration testing and adversary simulation.
- Develop threat‑based testing aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATLAS frameworks.
- Conduct AI/LLM security testing, prompt‑injection assessments and AI red‑team exercises.
- Operationalise new threat intelligence into validation and testing frameworks.
- Manage vulnerability findings through remediation and re‑validation, driving SLA compliance.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps and security teams to improve overall security posture.
- Create dashboards and reporting metrics covering findings, MTTR and validation outcomes.
Required profile
- 8‑10 years of cybersecurity experience with a strong focus on offensive security.
- Hands‑on experience in penetration testing, red‑team operations, adversary simulation and vulnerability management.
- Experience building or managing continuous security validation programs in highly regulated (banking/financial) environments.
- Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS and Three Lines of Defense frameworks.
- Mandatory OSCP or OSCE certification; CREST CCT, GIAC GPEN/GXPN or AI security certifications are a plus.
Required skills
- DefectDojo
- Horizon3
- Garak
- PyRIT
- AWS Security Agent
- Jira
- Codex
- Claude Security
- Penetration Testing
- Red Team Operations
- Adversary Simulation
- Vulnerability Management
- Threat Intelligence
- AI Security Testing
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Socium - Teams Done Differently
Abu Dhabi