Cybersecurity Protection Lead

About Sirar by stc

Sirar by stc, established by stc, is an advanced technology and cybersecurity company. As a cutting-edge cybersecurity provider, Sirar by stc supports organizations in managing their cyber capabilities and digital environments. The company offers a comprehensive range of solutions focused on business security and privacy, enabling safe, secure, and efficient online operations.

The Role: Cybersecurity Protection Lead

Sirar by stc is seeking a Cybersecurity Protection Lead to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading efforts to protect information, systems, and networks from cyber threats, ensuring operational security, and managing incident response. The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilize cybersecurity tools to protect information, systems, and networks.
• Track escalations and provide advisory and support to front and back office teams.
• Perform problem determination analysis and apply resolution techniques.
• Ensure daily closure of escalated trouble tickets per shift.
• Analyze performance of incident management activities, including root cause and ownership, with back-office support.
• Open client trouble tickets with vendors.
• Understand and meet customer agreements (OLA/SLA/commitments).
• Ensure the incident team actively drives L1 troubleshooting.
• Coordinate system changes with appropriate teams to minimize disruption.
• Communicate issues requiring escalation to different teams and initiate follow-up procedures.
• Lead operational incidents and breaches.
• Lead security analysis, administration, and remediation procedures, workflows, and tasks.
• Identify opportunities to improve security monitoring and operational tasks.
• Lead the technical onboarding/offboarding process for Cyber Resilience Center services.
• Operate Cyber Resilience services (DDoS, VM, MD, etc.) for clients.
• Ensure 24x7 proactive and reactive managed security operations monitoring for product lines and services.
• Utilize cybersecurity products and security control technologies to reduce identified risks.
• Ensure all operational and maintenance activities are properly documented and updated.
• Perform technical risk remediation and vulnerability closure within Cyber Resilience Center environments.
• Lead the administration, configuration, monitoring, and support of F5 BIG-IP LTM, ASM/Advanced WAF, and DNS/GTM platforms.
• Manage F5 policies, virtual servers, pools, SSL certificates, iRules, DNS services, and traffic management configurations.
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, upgrades, migrations, and optimization for F5 environments.
• Support customer onboarding/offboarding activities related to F5 services.
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of application delivery and web application firewall services.
• Identify and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities within F5 environments.
• Act as the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for F5-related incidents, escalations, and vendor engagements.
• Contribute to the overall success of the company by performing other assigned duties.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in cybersecurity or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in cybersecurity tools and protection strategies.
• Experience with F5 BIG-IP LTM, ASM/Advanced WAF, and DNS/GTM platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for incident management and root cause analysis.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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