Job description

The Manager – Security Operations role is responsible for leading and overseeing day-to-day network security operations within an enterprise environment in Abu Dhabi, including SOC/NOC operations, managed service providers, and onsite security resources. The role ensures continuous operation of security platforms, incident response execution, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration management across infrastructure, cloud platforms (Azure, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), identity services, and enterprise applications. The position acts as the operational owner of security controls, ensuring availability, monitoring, tuning, and issue resolution across production environments. It includes responsibility for executing security incident response activities such as investigation coordination, containment, recovery, and remediation according to defined processes. The role drives vulnerability remediation efforts across infrastructure, applications, and cloud services, ensuring timely resolution of findings from scans, audits, and incidents. It also involves operating Identity & Access Management (IAM), Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), and privileged access systems, maintaining lifecycle processes and operational stability. The Manager ensures compliance with security frameworks including ISO 27001 and NIST, maintains operational security metrics, and coordinates with vendors, MSPs, and cross-functional teams. The role requires hands-on execution of security fixes in production environments, leadership of security operations teams, participation in incident bridges, and support for business continuity and disaster recovery from a security operations perspective. It focuses strictly on operational delivery of security controls rather than policy creation or risk ownership.