Senior Cyber Security Engineer - Riyadh, KSA📣 Job Ad
about 13 hours ago
 | Contract Type | Full-time |
 | Workplace type | On-site |
 | Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join its Information Technology Group in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is part of a collaborative and innovative team focused on securing complex infrastructure and applications. The position requires strong communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, with a passion for cybersecurity and a desire to learn and grow in a rapidly evolving environment. Qualcomm is committed to fostering a culture of innovation, valuing collaboration, creativity, and diverse viewpoints to drive collective success.
This position is for motivated individuals with a strong desire to develop as a Cybersecurity Engineer and team player. Qualcomm is committed to providing training opportunities to help new employees acclimate to our cybersecurity team's operations. While experience in specific areas is valued, a genuine eagerness to develop your skills is paramount. Applications are encouraged from candidates who cover even some of the preferred qualifications, as the company believes in the power of passion and potential.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform hands-on security engineering for large datacenter and sovereign AI deployments, implementing cryptography, key management, and secure infrastructure architectures in production environments.
- Design, implement, and operate Infrastructure Identity & PKI, maintaining mTLS, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure key/secret handling using KMS platforms, while producing and maintaining operational runbooks.
- Configure and operate perimeter security controls, including day-to-day management of next-generation firewalls (*, Palo Alto, Fortinet) to enforce ingress/egress policies and protect cluster boundaries.
- Implement data sovereignty and compliance controls by validating architectures against regulatory frameworks such as KSA NCA ECC, CCC, and PDPL, identifying gaps, and executing technical remediation.
- Engineer storage security protections, enabling encryption at rest and enforcing NFS/S3 access controls on VAST/DDN platforms to secure training data, model weights, and sensitive assets.
- Secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads by applying cluster hardening, pod security standards, and workload isolation in partnership with platform and software teams.
- Execute vulnerability management operations, running scans, validating findings, prioritizing critical CVEs, and working directly with engineers to remediate issues through closure.
- Serve as an active incident responder, performing investigation, containment, and remediation for security events, and coordinating technically with the MSSP during escalations.
- Implement IAM controls across infrastructure and platforms, enforcing least privilege, RBAC, and privileged access for users, service accounts, and workloads.
- Perform hands-on threat modeling and security reviews, identifying attack paths, validating assumptions, documenting findings, and strengthening defenses across infrastructure and AI systems.
- Lead and directly respond to escalated security incidents during and after business hours, providing rapid triage, decisive containment, and coordinated investigation while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and executives to minimize business impact.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Must be a Saudi National to be considered.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, coupled with a minimum of 5 years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.
- Alternatively, a high school diploma or equivalent with a minimum of 7 years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.
- Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided they can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possess the required competencies.
Required Skills
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, and Python.
- Expertise in cryptography and key management.
- Experience with secure infrastructure architectures.
- Skilled in Infrastructure Identity & PKI, including mTLS and certificate lifecycle automation.
- Experience with secure key/secret handling using KMS platforms.
- Proficiency in configuring and operating perimeter security controls, including next-generation firewalls (*, Palo Alto, Fortinet).
- Knowledge of data sovereignty and compliance controls, and familiarity with regulatory frameworks like KSA NCA ECC, CCC, and PDPL.
- Experience with storage security protections, including encryption at rest and NFS/S3 access controls.
- Expertise in securing Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including cluster hardening, pod security standards, and workload isolation.
- Experience in vulnerability management and incident response.
- Skilled in implementing IAM controls, least privilege, RBAC, and privileged access management.
- Proficiency in threat modeling and security reviews.
- Strong communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in Arabic.
Work Environment and Location
This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within the Information Technology Group, specifically focusing on Cyber Security Engineering. The role involves working with a collaborative and innovative team dedicated to securing complex infrastructure and applications.
Requirements
- For Saudis Only
- Requires 5-10 Years experience
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