Specialist - Cybersecurity Resilience
Emarat · United Arab Emirates
The Cybersecurity Resilience Engineer is responsible for ensuring the organization's ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and disruptive security events. This role focuses on strengthening resilience through advanced security engineering, incident readiness, vulnerability mitigation, and implementation of continuity capabilities aligned with enterprise security policies, regulatory frameworks, and best practices.
Key responsibilities:
- Contribute to cybersecurity resilience strategy, frameworks, and programs that align with organizational objectives.
- Support senior management in defining cybersecurity continuity capabilities and risk reduction programs.
- Participate in cybersecurity maturity assessments and contribute to roadmaps for resilience improvement.
- Provide subject-matter expertise during internal security governance and risk discussions.
Cyber Resilience & Engineering
- Develop, implement, and maintain cyber resilience controls across infrastructure, cloud, OT/ICS, applications, and network systems.
- Implement security resilience technologies such as backup integrity validation, endpoint recovery workflows, privileged access resilience, and network segmentation.
- Engineer and automate resilience capabilities for rapid recovery during cyber incidents.
- Conduct resilience testing, including tabletop exercises, failover drills, ransomware simulations, and incident response readiness assessments.
Threat & Vulnerability Management
- Identify, assess, and mitigate vulnerabilities that could impact business continuity or recovery.
- Work with IT/OT teams to ensure timely patching, configuration hardening, and implementation of compensating controls.
- Collaborate with SOC and threat intelligence teams to incorporate resilience measures for emerging threats.
Incident Response & Business Continuity Alignment
- Support incident response activities, ensuring resilience mechanisms are activated and functional.
- Maintain cyber incident response playbooks with focus on isolation, containment, and rapid restoration.
- Collaborate with business continuity and disaster recovery teams to align cyber resilience practices.
Security Tools & Technology Operations
- Manage deployment, monitoring, and optimization of cyber resilience tools (EDR, XDR, backup security, PAM, SIEM integrations).
- Ensure secure configuration and operational stability of resilience platforms.
- Support integration and automation between cybersecurity and IT systems.
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (preferred):
- CISSP, CISM, CCSP
- CEH, ECIH, GCIH
- CompTIA CySA+, Security+
- SANS cyber resilience or IR certifications (bonus)
- 5–8 years of hands‑on experience in cybersecurity engineering, incident response, or cyber resilience.
- Experience in cyber resilience domains such as backup security, DR/BC cyber alignment, endpoint recovery, incident containment, threat mitigation, or network hardening.
- Experience supporting resilience activities in hybrid IT/OT environments is an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in using cybersecurity tools (XDR/EDR, SIEM, PAM, vulnerability scanners, backup security platforms).
- This role is reserved for UAE Nationals only.
Emarat is a multi-channel power and energy company with a much-loved network of service stations and fuel depots across Dubai and the Northern Emirates. We meet the day-to-day petrol and LPG needs of millions of people while also helping to keep the engines of Industry running with fleet solutions, aviation fuel and commercial fuel services.
The Emarat brand has earned its reputation for providing great value and high-quality products and services – which is why you can expect the expected, every time.
Our network spans right across the north of the UAE, from Dubai to Ajman, and from Fujairah to Sharjah, plus many other locations in between. Service and quality are incredibly important to us, which is why we are proud to provide our customers with high-quality fuel, lubricants, state-of-the-art car washing facilities, best-in-class terminalling, bulk fuel logistics and great franchise opportunities for ambitious businesses.
Oh, and we also serve superb freshly-ground Arabicca coffee for anybody with a taste for the real thing.
All our colleagues – from the barista to the car mechanic – are fully trained in how to deliver great customer service. We operate ethically and to the highest international and national HSE standards, making sure that employees, customers and business partners are happy and safe at Emarat.