Talabat
Senior Security Engineer
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 01/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
15/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
01/04/2026
Job description
The Senior Security Engineer – Cloud Security at talabat in Dubai, UAE, is a hands-on role responsible for implementing, operating, and continuously improving enterprise cloud security controls across AWS and GCP environments. This position ensures adherence to corporate security standards, regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, NIST, SOC-2), and risk management processes. The engineer enforces security baselines for accounts, projects, networking, IAM, encryption, and logging, supports standardized cloud landing zones and guardrails, and designs scalable IAM models including role-based access, service identities, and federated access. Responsibilities include operating and tuning security platforms such as CSPM, CIEM, and CWPP, automating remediation through infrastructure-as-code, enabling detection and alerting for cloud security events, supporting incident response and root cause analysis, and validating cloud controls during audits and security assessments. The role partners with engineering, platform, SRE, architecture, and GRC teams to ensure secure cloud usage at enterprise scale and contributes to global security practices and reusable Terraform components. The position requires a strong operational mindset, ability to translate security requirements into measurable controls, and effective collaboration across globally distributed teams.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Implement, operate, and continuously improve enterprise cloud security controls across AWS and GCP organizations
- Enforce security baselines for accounts, projects, networking, IAM, encryption, and logging
- Maintain alignment with enterprise security architecture, policies, and control frameworks
- Support standardized cloud landing zones and guardrails
- Design and operate scalable IAM models including role-based access, service identities, and federated access
- Enforce least privilege through periodic access reviews, CIEM insights, and remediation workflows
- Operate and tune cloud security platforms including CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, and native AWS/GCP services
- Automate remediation of security findings using infrastructure-as-code pipelines
- Ensure comprehensive cloud audit logging, telemetry, and alerting are enabled and monitored
- Support investigation and response to cloud-related security incidents following enterprise IR processes
- Perform root cause analysis and contribute to post-incident improvements and control enhancements
- Participate in enterprise compliance programs and map requirements to cloud controls
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for cloud services and platforms
- Provide evidence and technical validation during audits and security assessments
- Act as a trusted security partner to engineering and platform teams and review architecture designs
- Provide authoritative guidance on secure use of AWS and GCP services at enterprise scale
Experience & skills
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong cloud 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, private connectivity, perimeter controls, centralized logging, monitoring, audit trails, encryption, key management, and data protection
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience operating security controls under formal policies, standards, and risk frameworks
- Familiarity with enterprise change management, incident response, and audit processes
- Ability to translate security requirements into implementable and measurable controls
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently as a senior individual contributor
- Strong written documentation and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working across time zones with globally distributed teams