Cybersecurity Defense Senior Specialist

Role Summary:

The Cybersecurity Defense Senior Specialist is responsible for advanced, hands-on security operations, including monitoring, analyzing, and responding to complex security alerts using tools like SIEM, EDR, and intrusion detection systems; they design, implement, and maintain critical defensive infrastructure such as firewalls, security controls, and encryption solutions to reduce the attack surface; furthermore, they conduct threat hunting, perform in-depth security assessments, and manage vulnerability remediation efforts, serving as a subject matter expert to mentor junior staff and continuously refine security policies and incident response playbooks to enhance the organization's defensive posture.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Operate and enhance HALA’s defensive monitoring and detection capabilities across endpoints, cloud, IAM, network, and fintech apps.

• Perform advanced threat hunting and investigation; tune SIEM/SOAR rules and use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

• Improve alert fidelity, reduce false positives, and support 24/7 SOC operations and incident handling.

• Work with Offense/IR teams to convert red-team lessons into detections and preventative controls.

• Maintain security tooling health (EDR, NDR, DLP, WAF, CSPM) and report on coverage/maturity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity/CS or related field.

• 5–8+ years in SOC / blue team / detection engineering, fintech or high-scale digital products preferred.

• Hands-on with SIEM/SOAR, EDR, cloud security monitoring, and log analytics.

• Familiarity with SAMA CSF / NCA ECC-2 defensive control expectations.

• Certs preferred: GCIA, GSEC, SC-200, Splunk/QRadar/Elastic certs, or equivalent.