Delivery Hero
Senior Security Engineer – Cloud Security
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 31/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
14/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
31/03/2026
Job description
The Senior Security Engineer – Cloud Security operates as a hands-on cloud security practitioner within a large enterprise-scale environment in Dubai, UAE. The role involves engineering, operating, and continuously improving cloud security controls across AWS and GCP environments, ensuring alignment with corporate security standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management processes. The engineer is accountable for control effectiveness, operational stability, and risk reduction while collaborating with Cloud Platform (GDP), SRE, Architecture, and GRC teams. Responsibilities include identity and access governance, automation of security remediation, cloud auditing, incident response, risk management, compliance enablement, and providing guidance on secure architecture and service usage. The position requires deep technical expertise in cloud IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, network segmentation, Infrastructure as Code, and formal enterprise security operations.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Implement, operate, and continuously improve enterprise-grade cloud security controls across AWS and GCP organizations
- Enforce security baselines for accounts/projects, networking, IAM, encryption, and logging in alignment with enterprise security architecture
- Support standardized cloud landing zones, guardrails, and cloud account structures
- Design and operate scalable IAM models including role-based access, service identities, and federated access, enforcing least privilege
- Conduct periodic access reviews, CIEM insights, and remediation workflows to maintain access governance
- Operate and tune cloud security platforms including CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, and native AWS/GCP security services
- Drive remediation of security findings through automation, pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code instead of manual fixes
- Ensure comprehensive cloud audit logging, telemetry, and alerting are enabled, monitored, and integrated with incident response processes
- Investigate cloud security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement post-incident control enhancements
- Support enterprise compliance programs (PCI DSS, NIST, SOC-2) by mapping requirements to cloud controls and providing evidence during audits
- Participate in threat modeling and risk assessments for cloud services and platforms
- Act as a trusted security partner to engineering and platform teams, reviewing cloud architecture designs and providing guidance on secure AWS/GCP usage at enterprise scale
Experience & skills
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong cloud security focus
- Hands-on experience securing AWS and GCP in large, multi-account/multi-project environments
- Deep knowledge of cloud IAM, federation, access governance, network segmentation, perimeter controls, encryption, key management, and data protection
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud security tooling (CSPM, CIEM, CWPP)
- Experience operating security controls under formal enterprise policies, standards, and risk frameworks
- Familiarity with enterprise change management, incident response, and audit processes
- Demonstrated ability to translate security requirements into implementable and measurable controls
- Strong written documentation and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate independently as a senior individual contributor and work across time zones with globally distributed teams