Senior Specialist – Cybersecurity Production Support – Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
We are looking for a Senior Specialist – Cybersecurity Production Support to join our team in Saudi Arabia.
Job Overview:
The Senior Specialist will be responsible for supporting and maintaining cybersecurity platforms, ensuring high availability, operational stability, and effective security monitoring across enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide production support for cybersecurity platforms including SIEM, SOAR, VPN, and security monitoring solutions.
- Monitor cybersecurity platforms, dashboards, alerts, and operational activities.
- Support Splunk SIEM use cases, log ingestion, correlation rules, and performance optimization.
- Manage and maintain SOAR workflows, playbooks, and automation processes.
- Support VPN infrastructure including secure remote access and site-to-site connectivity.
- Perform Incident, Problem, and Change Management activities following ITIL practices.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for security incidents and platform issues.
- Support Cyber Incident Response activities including investigation and remediation.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
- Maintain security documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and operational reports.
- Collaborate with security teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors for issue resolution.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or related field.
- 4–8 years of experience in cybersecurity production support within enterprise or financial environments.
- Hands-on experience with:
- SIEM platforms (Splunk Enterprise / Splunk ES preferred)
- SOAR platforms (Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, or similar)
- VPN technologies (IPSec / SSL VPN)
- Security monitoring and incident response
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity operations, threat detection, and log analysis.
- Experience with ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
- Knowledge of SAMA Cybersecurity Framework, NCA ECC, PDPL, and NDMO is preferred.
- Basic scripting knowledge (Python, PowerShell, or similar) is preferred.