478 Cloud Security jobs in Saudi Arabia

Job Title:
Cloud Security Engineer (Resident)

Location
: Onsite – (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Experience:
Minimum 2 years in cloud security

Position Type:
Full-Time Resident Engineer

Job Summary
We are hiring a skilled Cloud Security Engineer to serve as a resident engineer at big financial entity. The role focuses on evaluating and securing cloud environments, ensuring alignment with local and international security and compliance standards.

Job Description

Assess and secure cloud architectures (public, private, or hybrid) to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory policies.

Perform cloud-specific security risk assessments and identify areas for improvement.

Review cloud services and configurations to meet standards such as NCA ECC, NIST, and CIS benchmarks.

Collaborate with DevOps and cloud infrastructure teams to embed security controls and policies.

Provide technical input on cloud security tools, IAM policies, encryption, and monitoring.

Contribute to compliance audits, prepare cloud security reports, and implement security baselines.

Conduct structured knowledge transfer and create technical documentation for internal teams.

Qualifications & Skills
Experience: At least 2 years in cloud security engineering.

Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP security services.

Knowledge:

Familiarity with NCA ECC, NIST SP 800 series, CIS Benchmarks.

Proficiency in securing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.

Understanding of IAM, cloud firewalls, encryption, and compliance monitoring tools.

Skills: Strong collaboration, communication, and risk analysis capabilities.

Additional Terms
Resident must perform knowledge transfer and documentation upon completion of tasks.

Job Title:
Cloud Security Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Security Engineer with a strong focus on traditional security practices to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge of legacy security systems and a solid understanding of how to integrate those practices with modern cloud environments, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will primarily focus on maintaining and enhancing our existing security infrastructure while selectively applying GCP expertise to improve and modernize specific security functions.

Responsibilities:

• Assess, analyze, and mitigate security vulnerabilities and risks across our extensive legacy systems, with a focus on maintaining their stability and security posture.
• Design, implement, and manage security controls and solutions for our legacy systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures for legacy systems, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and respond to security incidents related to legacy systems, including investigation, containment, and remediation efforts.
• Provide expert-level support and troubleshooting for legacy security infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure integration of new technologies with existing legacy systems.
• Evaluate and recommend security enhancements for legacy systems to address evolving threats.

• Apply knowledge of GCP to specific security projects, including:

• Integrating legacy security logs with GCP's security monitoring tools (e.g., Security Command Center).

• Utilizing GCP services to enhance specific security functions, such as threat detection or vulnerability scanning, where appropriate.

• Assisting with the secure migration of select security workloads to GCP.

• Provide security guidance and training to engineering teams on legacy security best practices and basic GCP security principles.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8-9 years of experience in a Security Engineering role with a primary focus on security principles, practices, and technologies.
• Extensive and deep understanding of core security concepts: network security, operating system security, vulnerability management, incident response, cryptography, and security frameworks.
• Proven expertise in securing legacy systems and technologies: traditional firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, legacy operating systems, security appliances, and other non-cloud-native security solutions.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, routing, and switching.
• Familiarity with compliance standards and frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, etc.).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, specifically in the context of complex legacy environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a focus on security best practices.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Other relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM).
• Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including the shared responsibility model.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices.
• Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with migrating or integrating legacy systems with GCP.

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GCP Cloud Security Engineer in Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Qiddiya Investment Company is actively searching for a skilled Manager - Cloud Security to join our innovative team. As a Manager in this pivotal role, you will lead and enhance our cloud security initiatives, ensuring our cloud environments are robust, resilient, and secure. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement security best practices and manage risk effectively within our cloud infrastructure.

• Cloud Security Strategy & Architecture: Define and implement cloud security strategies aligned with business and compliance needs; Design and enforce secure cloud architectures and best practices for GCP and multi-cloud environments
• Security Operations & Incident Management: Oversee cloud security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response
• Compliance, Risk, and Governance: Understand compliances and security frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR, etc.); Expertise in risk assessments and drive remediation efforts for security gaps
• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Implement strong IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust principles; Manage service accounts, workload identities, and access control mechanisms
• DevSecOps & Security Automation: Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and automate security policy enforcement; Implement security testing for code, application, and vulnerability management
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5-7 years of experience in information security, with a focus on cloud security
• Strong understanding of cloud security architectures and controls across various cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with risk management frameworks and compliance standards relevant to cloud environments
• Exceptional leadership abilities and experience managing security teams
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the capability to interact effectively with various stakeholders
• Certifications such as Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or similar credentials are a plus
• Ability to think critically and problem-solve in high-pressure situations

Join Qiddiya's team and enjoy a dynamic work environment that offers growth opportunities, a collaborative culture, and the chance to make a significant impact as our future Playmaker!

An

experienced

Cloud

Security

Architect

who

has

minimum

of

ten

(10)

years of

relevant

experience.

Experience

implementing

cloud

cyber

security

in

a

highly

secure

environment

like

Government

Organization

is

a

must.

GCP

Architect

shall

meet

or

exceed

the

minimum

qualifications

set

forth

below:

·   

Cloud

security

in

general

and

in

supporting

the

deployment

of

GCP at

several

multi-national

companies

and

Government

organizations.

·   

Develop

organization policies

based

on

regulatory

requirements,

international standards

and

internal

policies.

Deploy

solutions

to

detect

configuration

drifts.

·   

Develop

security

baselines

for

Infrastructure

as

a

Service

and

Platform

as

a

Service

asset.

·   Architecting

and

implementing

vulnerability scanning

solutions

for

GCP

using

native

or

third-party

solutions.

·   

Extensive

experience

deploying

secure

configurations

and

architecture

for

GCP and

implementing

related

cyber

security

solutions

on

GCP.

·   

Extensive
experience
in

designing
authentication,
access

and

authorization

models

and

implementing

granular

roles

in

GCP

with

least

privilege

concept.

·   
Design,

development

and
deployment
of

Infrastructure-as-code
approaches,
role-specific

automation

tools

and associated

programming

languages.

·   
Architecting
and

securing

continuous

integration

and
continuous
deployment

(CI/CD) pipelines

for

DevSecOps.

·   

Architecting

and

deploying

End-Point

protection

solutions

·   
Architecting

solutions

to

implement

continuous

cyber security

monitoring

in

GCP

by

combining

data

from

cloud

and
on-premises
monitoring

systems.

·   

Forensics

and

incident

response

pertaining

to

GCP.

·   

Securing
Scalable architectures,
including APIs,
microservices
and

PaaS.

·   

Extensive

Experience

in

architecture

and

deployment

of

Data

Security technologies

like

key

management

services,

encryption,

Data

Leakage

and

secure

cloud

storage.

·   

Network

Architecture

of

Cloud networking

like

Subnetting,

Route

Tables,

Security

Groups,

VPC,

VPC

Peering,

Transit

Gateways,

optimizing

for

egress

costs

·   

Landing

Zone

Architecture

and

implementing

and

Automation

solutions

·   
Policy guardrails

and

implementation

using

policy-as-code

approaches,

GCP

native

policy

tools

Overview

GCP Cloud Security Engineer (m/f/d) at Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing. The role focuses on maintaining and enhancing existing security infrastructure with selective application of GCP expertise to improve security functions.

• Assess, analyze, and mitigate security vulnerabilities and risks across legacy systems while maintaining stability and security posture.
• Design, implement, and manage security controls for legacy systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures for legacy systems, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and respond to security incidents related to legacy systems, including investigation, containment, and remediation.
• Provide expert-level support and troubleshooting for legacy security infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to securely integrate new technologies with existing legacy systems.
• Evaluate and recommend security enhancements for legacy systems to address evolving threats.
• Apply knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to security projects, including:
• Integrating legacy security logs with GCP security monitoring tools (e.g., Security Command Center).
• Utilizing GCP services to enhance security functions such as threat detection or vulnerability scanning, where appropriate.
• Assisting with the secure migration of select security workloads to GCP.
• Provide security guidance and training to engineering teams on legacy security best practices and basic GCP security principles.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 8-9 years of experience in a Security Engineering role with a primary focus on security principles, practices, and technologies.
• Extensive understanding of core security concepts: network security, operating system security, vulnerability management, incident response, cryptography, and security frameworks.
• Proven expertise in securing legacy systems and technologies: traditional firewalls, IDS/IPS, legacy operating systems, security appliances, and non-cloud-native security solutions.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, switching).
• Familiarity with compliance standards and frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, etc.).
• Analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills in complex legacy environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), focusing on security best practices.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification.

• Other relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM).
• Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including the shared responsibility model.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices.
• Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with migrating or integrating legacy systems with GCP.

Halian Group: With over 28 years of experience, we provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers. Our resourcing and smart services help realize tomorrow’s potential. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and encourage applications from all qualified candidates.

Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia

EEO statement: We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute.

Resident Engineer – Netskope Cloud Security Solutions

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Resident Engineer to support and optimize our customer’s deployment of the Netskope Cloud Security platform. Acting as an integral part of the customer's technical team, you will provide hands-on technical expertise to ensure the smooth operation and enhancement of the existing Netskope deployment.

• Customer Support and Collaboration : Act as the trusted technical consultant for the customer’s project team; directly integrate with the customer’s team to provide on-site technical assistance and deployment support; serve as the customer advocate, ensuring alignment with their business goals.
• Technical Tasks : Perform ongoing configuration, fine-tuning, and optimization of the deployed Netskope Cloud Security platform; assist with policy creation, updates, and troubleshooting to meet evolving customer requirements; support and troubleshoot integrations between the Netskope platform and the customer’s existing IT environment.
• Documentation and Reporting : Create comprehensive technical documentation tailored to the customer's specific deployment; deliver detailed weekly status reports summarizing progress, open issues, and planned activities.
• Problem Solving and Best Practices : Resolve technical issues effectively by collaborating with Netskope support and internal teams; provide guidance on best practices for platform utilization to enhance security posture and efficiency; recommend additional features or training to maximize the customer’s return on investment.

• Experience : 3–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, data protection, or network security; hands-on experience with cloud security platforms (e.g., Netskope, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks); familiarity with technical support, professional services, or implementation projects.
• Skills : Strong knowledge of enterprise IT environments and heterogeneous systems; proficiency in configuring and troubleshooting security policies and platforms; excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Certifications (Preferred) : CISSP, CISM, or equivalent security certifications; project management qualifications such as ITIL or PRINCE2 are advantageous.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and proactive
Resident Engineer

to support and optimize our customer's deployment of the Netskope Cloud Security platform. Acting as an integral part of the customer's technical team, you will provide hands-on technical expertise to ensure the smooth operation and enhancement of the existing Netskope deployment. This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate engineer to work on cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions and help deliver value to a key project.

Core Responsibilities

• Customer Support and Collaboration
  :
• Act as the trusted technical consultant for the customer's project team.
• Directly integrate with the customer's team to provide on-site technical assistance and deployment support.
• Serve as the customer advocate, ensuring alignment with their business goals.
• Technical Tasks
  :
• Perform ongoing configuration, fine-tuning, and optimization of the deployed Netskope Cloud Security platform.
• Assist with policy creation, updates, and troubleshooting to meet evolving customer requirements.
• Support and troubleshoot integrations between the Netskope platform and the customer's existing IT environment.
• Documentation and Reporting
  :
• Create comprehensive technical documentation tailored to the customer's specific deployment.
• Deliver detailed weekly status reports summarizing progress, open issues, and planned activities.
• Problem Solving and Best Practices
  :
• Resolve technical issues effectively by collaborating with Netskope support and internal teams.
• Provide guidance on best practices for platform utilization to enhance security posture and efficiency.
• Recommend additional features or training to maximize the customer's return on investment.

Key Qualifications

• Experience
  :
• 3–5 years of experience in cybersecurity, data protection, or network security.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security platforms (e.g., Netskope, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks).
• Familiarity with technical support, professional services, or implementation projects.
• Skills
  :
• Strong knowledge of enterprise IT environments and heterogeneous systems.
• Proficiency in configuring and troubleshooting security policies and platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Certifications (Preferred)
  :
• CISSP, CISM, or equivalent security certifications.
• Project management qualifications such as ITIL or PRINCE2 are advantageous.

Overview

An experienced Cloud Security Architect who has minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience. Experience implementing cloud cyber security in a highly secure environment like Government Organization is a must. GCP Architect shall meet or exceed the minimum qualifications set forth below:

· Cloud security in general and in supporting the deployment of GCP at several multi-national companies and Government organizations.

· Develop organization policies based on regulatory requirements, international standards and internal policies. Deploy solutions to detect configuration drifts.

· Develop security baselines for Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service asset.

·Architecting and implementing vulnerability scanning solutions for GCP using native or third-party solutions.

· Extensive experience deploying secure configurations and architecture for GCP and implementing related cyber security solutions on GCP.

· Extensive experience in designing authentication, access and authorization models and implementing granular roles in GCP with least privilege concept.

· Design, development and deployment of Infrastructure-as-code approaches, role-specific automation tools and associated programming languages.

· Architecting and securing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for DevSecOps.

· Architecting and deploying End-Point protection solutions

· Architecting solutions to implement continuous cyber security monitoring in GCP by combining data from cloud and on-premises monitoring systems.

· Forensics and incident response pertaining to GCP.

· Securing Scalable architectures, including APIs, microservices and PaaS.

· Extensive Experience in architecture and deployment of Data Security technologies like key management services, encryption, Data Leakage and secure cloud storage.

· Network Architecture of Cloud networking like Subnetting, Route Tables, Security Groups, VPC, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, optimizing for egress costs

· Landing Zone Architecture and implementing and Automation solutions

· Policy guardrails and implementation using policy-as-code approaches, GCP native policy tools

• Cloud security in general and in supporting the deployment of GCP at several multi-national companies and Government organizations.
• Develop organization policies based on regulatory requirements, international standards and internal policies. Deploy solutions to detect configuration drifts.
• Develop security baselines for Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service asset.
• Architecting and implementing vulnerability scanning solutions for GCP using native or third-party solutions.
• Extensive experience deploying secure configurations and architecture for GCP and implementing related cyber security solutions on GCP.
• Extensive experience in designing authentication, access and authorization models and implementing granular roles in GCP with least privilege concept.
• Design, development and deployment of Infrastructure-as-code approaches, role-specific automation tools and associated programming languages.
• Architecting and securing CI/CD pipelines for DevSecOps.
• Architecting and deploying End-Point protection solutions
• Architecting solutions to implement continuous cyber security monitoring in GCP by combining data from cloud and on-premises monitoring systems.
• Forensics and incident response pertaining to GCP.
• Securing scalable architectures, including APIs, microservices and PaaS.
• Data security technologies like key management services, encryption, Data Leakage and secure cloud storage.
• Network Architecture of Cloud networking (Subnetting, Route Tables, Security Groups, VPC, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways) with focus on optimizing egress costs.
• Landing Zone Architecture and implementing Automation solutions.
• Policy guardrails and policy-as-code approaches using GCP native policy tools.

• Minimum ten (10) years of relevant experience in cloud security.
• Experience implementing cloud security in highly secure environments (e.g., Government organizations).
• GCP architecture experience with secure configurations and related cyber security solutions.
• Experience designing authentication, access control and least-privilege roles in GCP.
• Experience with IaC, automation tools, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with CI/CD security, endpoint protection, and continuous cyber security monitoring in GCP.
• Experience with data security technologies (encryption, KMS, secure storage) and API/microservices security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking concepts (VPC, subnets, routing, peering, Transit Gateways) and egress cost optimization.
• Experience with policy-as-code and GCP policy tools.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level
• Employment type Full-time
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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The role you will be involved in both operations and important implementation projects contributing to the growth and maintenance of our technology infrastructure. If you have a passion for cybersecurity, possess technical skills and aspire to make a significant impact we strongly encourage you to apply and become an essential part of our dedicated cybersecurity team.

• Cloud Security: Have a good understanding of cloud services such as Google Cloud
• Provide (GCP), Terraform, CI-CD Security, Kubernetes Security,Gitlab, Product security features and fixes.
• Penetration Testing: Perform Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for Web, Mobile, and API applications. Plan and conduct Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of systems,
  
  switches, servers, and more.
• End-Point Protection: Exhibit expertise in planning, implementing, and managing enterprise-level Anti-Virus (AV) solutions to safeguard against malware, viruses, and other malicious threats.
• Infrastructure Security: Review the complete corporate IT infrastructure's security, including network security controls, anti-malware implementation, Cloud Security posture.
• Management (CPM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), firewall rulesets, backup and disaster
  
  recovery, and vulnerability management processes.
• Project Management: Work across various product and engineering teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigation.Work with DevOps and other teams to implement and improve security controls and/or processes.
• Security Awareness: Experience in conducting phishing simulations and other awareness exercises to evaluate employee susceptibility to social engineering and provide targeted training to enhance resilience.
• Security Monitoring: Automation and improvement of Incident Response procedures, playbook creation to reduce manual effort of responding to typical cyber incidents along with monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities or conducts regular threat intelligence.
• Research and develop detection rules utilizing an array of tools.

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Knowledge of Information Technology security issues and approaches to manage
• Information Technology security with a fast paced Fintech environment.
• Security Qualification Good to have: CEH, CompTia Security, etc
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• 2-3 Experience of working across teams to deliver solutions and generate high levels of
• internal buy-in
• Experience of developing and delivering training.
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse environment
• Knowledge of online technologies, payment methods, content delivery networks, REST APIs, microservices, and application development.
• Programming and scripting understanding (Bash, Python etc.)
• Good Cloud experience with and appreciation of AWS, GCP & OCI.

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