Senior Security Operations Engineer

🕒 3 days ago

🌐 United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq, +2 more countries – Remote

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote 🇮🇶 Iraq – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛡️ Security Operations

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Digital Zone

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🛍️ eCommerce

💳 Fintech

🎮 Gaming

eCommerce • Fintech • Gaming

Digital Zone is a pioneering company founded in 2020 in Iraq, providing a comprehensive platform for digital products. It specializes in facilitating access to vouchers, tickets, and subscriptions, serving millions of transactions monthly through strategic partnerships, like the one with Qi Card, a leading payment card market player. Digital Zone offers a user-friendly experience, enabling secure and direct payments for digital goods. Its diverse portfolio includes mobile top-up cards, gaming cards, and entertainment access, making it a key player in the financial technology and e-commerce spaces. With expansion into entertainment, cultural tourism, and sporting events, Digital Zone is at the forefront of Iraq's digital transformation, witnessed through their innovative solutions such as the 'Ticket Zone' platform for events and collaborations with telecommunications companies for seamless service delivery. The platform is recognized for its successful integration via APIs, enabling app developers to become digital goods resellers, while maintaining a broad catalog and competitive prices.

📋 Description

• Design and operate security operations across cloud, identity, endpoint and SaaS • Build threat detection, threat hunting and incident response capabilities • Design and build pipelines bringing logs from cloud, identity, endpoint and SaaS sources into the SIEM or security data lake • Normalize and enrich data at ingestion • Monitor pipeline health and detect broken log sources quickly • Balance security coverage against cost and retention requirements • Select, deploy, configure and tune SIEM, EDR, cloud threat detection and automation tooling • Configure tooling to raise alerts with a high signal-to-noise ratio • Write detections as code and map them to MITRE ATT&CK • Measure and test detection coverage and prioritize effort based on risk • Own the incident response plan and playbooks • Act as incident commander for security events • Coordinate containment and recovery across engineering, legal and leadership • Run blameless post-incident reviews that strengthen the organization • Work closely with engineering and Product Security to protect the cloud-native platform • Shape and build security operations from first principles as the first Security Operations hire

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 5+ years in security operations, detection engineering or incident response, with hands-on experience building things yourself • A startup or scale-up background is a strong plus • Hands-on experience building detections and investigating incidents in AWS, using CloudTrail, GuardDuty, VPC Flow Logs and Kubernetes audit logs • Lead experience in detection engineering and detection-as-code, incident response and cloud forensics, SIEM and security data pipeline architecture, security automation (SOAR) and alert triage workflows, or threat hunting and threat intelligence • Ability to write code using Python, SQL or the SIEM’s query language • Ability to treat detections and runbooks like software and automate repetitive work • Ability to run an incident and keep stakeholders informed under pressure • Ability to communicate technical findings as statements of impact and next steps for engineers, leadership, non-technical colleagues and customers when needed • Experience building incident response and logging controls for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI audits is a plus • Experience managing an MDR or MSSP partner is a plus • Familiarity with breach notification obligations, such as UAE PDPL and customer contractual SLAs, is a plus • Experience hiring or mentoring security analysts or engineers as a function grows is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business • Top-of-the-market compensation packages • Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more

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