About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the onsite operational security focal point, coordinating security monitoring, incident response, technical remediation, and reporting with Blackstone's shared SOC. - Manage and maintain enterprise firewall security controls, policies, and configurations. - Lead and support vulnerability management activities, including identification, assessment, tracking, and remediation of security vulnerabilities. - Coordinate security monitoring, alert triage, and escalation with the shared SOC and technical teams. - Lead operational response to confirmed security incidents according to approved procedures. - Handle security operations activities and ensure effective execution of security processes. - Collect and preserve technical evidence, maintaining incident records and timelines. - Coordinate containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident reviews with stakeholders. - Support security logging, SIEM integration, use-case tuning, and monitoring coverage assessments. - Track technical security risks and remediation dependencies across infrastructure and applications. - Provide operational security reporting and escalate policy/risk decisions to authorized functions.
Requirements
Indian national currently based in the UAE, preferably Abu Dhabi
5+ years of cybersecurity operations, SOC, incident response, or security engineering experience.
Hands-on experience in firewall management, vulnerability management, and incident handling & response.
Practical experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, or equivalent.
Strong knowledge of security monitoring, incident handling, threat analysis, and security operations.
Experience coordinating with SOC teams and driving remediation activities across infrastructure and application environments.
Security+, CEH, GCIA, GCIH, or equivalent cybersecurity certification preferred.
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