Senior Manager - Cyber Security Engineers

Greetings,

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Manager - Cyber Security Engineers position at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.

• Role Title: Senior Manager - Cyber Security Engineers
• Experience: 8-10+ Years
• Location: Abu Dhabi
• Employment type: Full-time
• Domain: Banking

About Company:

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,700 professionals across around 60 offices in over 22 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.

Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Synechron: Technology and AI Consulting for Business

Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Synechron's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.

We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn't matter where you're from or what you've had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we'll support you like we support each other. Choose a career with us and let's pursue innovation, together.

Job Description:

Certifications:

• OSCP or OSCE — mandatory
• GIAC GPEN or GXPN
• GIAC GMLE (Machine Learning Engineer) or an equivalent AI-security certification
• Enrolment in the Anthropic Cyber Verification Program for authorised offensive use of Opus 4.x
• CREST CCT — desirable, particularly in regulated banking environments

Key Deliverables:

• Operate Continuous Security Validation — running AWS Security Agent (cloud/infra), (AI-specific) and (model supply-chain) on every significant deployment, mapped to a 2LoD-approved threat coverage matrix.
• Own the 7-day threat-intel SLA — ingesting MITRE ATLAS / OWASP LLM feeds via Jira automation and operationalizing new attack techniques into test suites within 7 days.
• Aggregate, deduplicate and SLA-manage all findings via DefectDojo → Attestation, enforcing severity-based MTTR remediation gates before re-deployment approval, and feeding the Power BI dashboard (Open Findings, MTTR, Pipeline Gate Pass Rate, Prompt Injection Block Rate). in offensive security, blue-team validation and continuous adversarial testing, with proven shift from periodic manual pentest to automated, continuous control validation.
• Hands-on with autonomous pentest tooling (AWS Security Agent, Horizon3 or equivalent), AI red-teaming (Garak, PyRIT, Claude Security / Opus 4.x, Codex) and OWASP LLM Top 10 + MITRE ATLAS test design.
• Clear understanding of the 1LoD/2LoD boundary — running control validation (blue team) against 2LoD-approved threat scenarios, while leaving independent unknown-scenario red teaming to 2LoD