Senior Security Engineer

About the Role

Takamol Holding is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud security architecture, network security solutions, and DevSecOps controls across OCI and cloud-native platforms. The Senior Security Engineer will provide technical leadership for security engineering initiatives and serve as the primary security partner for development, platform, and infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design secure OCI architectures and landing zones, and lead cloud security posture management and configuration compliance initiatives.
• Define cloud security standards and reference architectures, and lead the implementation of Infrastructure as Code security controls.
• Design and manage Palo Alto NGFW security architecture, and implement F5 WAF and application delivery security controls.
• Design Zero Trust segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies, and establish secure access models for cloud-native platforms.
• Lead Kubernetes security architecture and governance, including implementing Kubernetes RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers, and Pod Security Controls.
• Deploy and manage Falco runtime security monitoring, and implement Istio service mesh security and mTLS.
• Architect GitLab DevSecOps pipelines, implementing SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC Scanning, Secrets Detection, and Policy as Code.
• Define automated security quality gates and lead secure SDLC initiatives.
• Design enterprise authentication and authorization using Keycloak, implement Vault-based secrets lifecycle management, and support workload identities and cloud-native authentication models.
• Lead security investigations and root-cause analysis, define detection use cases and response playbooks, and conduct security reviews for major releases and platform changes.

Experience and Qualifications

• Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity engineering.

Work Environment

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