
ADGM
Manager – Security Operations
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 03/06/2026
Job overview
Date posted
19/04/2026
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
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.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and manage day-to-day security operations across SOC/NOC, managed service providers, and onsite teams
- Operate and maintain security platforms ensuring availability, configuration accuracy, monitoring, and issue resolution
- Execute incident response activities including investigation, containment, recovery, and remediation coordination
- Drive vulnerability remediation across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments
- Operate IAM, CIAM, and privileged access systems ensuring lifecycle management and stability
- Ensure proper configuration and monitoring of cloud security controls across Azure, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS platforms
- Maintain operational security metrics including incidents, vulnerabilities, and remediation status
- Coordinate with vendors and service providers to resolve security platform issues
- Conduct post-incident reviews and root cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed
- Lead security operations team performance management, mentoring, and workload prioritization
- Ensure secure configuration baselines are applied across all systems and environments
- Support audit, compliance, and internal review activities with operational evidence
- Participate in live incident response bridges and provide technical leadership and updates
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery execution from a security operations perspective
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate minimum 10 years of experience in cybersecurity or technology operations with security focus
- Demonstrate at least 3 years of leadership experience in security operations or remediation teams
- Demonstrate hands-on experience fixing security issues in production environments
- Demonstrate knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST, and cloud security frameworks
- Demonstrate experience with IAM, CIAM, PAM, and cloud security platforms
- Demonstrate experience with NGFW, WAF, API Protection, DDoS, NAC, CASB, SWG, Email, and Endpoint security tools
- Demonstrate experience in incident response and vulnerability management
- Demonstrate ability to operate in high-pressure operational security environments