(Blue Team) Security Engineer - Relocate to Dubai (UAE)

Position Overview The SOC Analyst is responsible for the complete lifecycle of security alerts—from initial triage through enrichment, investigation, and resolution or escalation. This tier-integrated role merges traditional Level 1 and Level 2 functions, ensuring accountability, consistency, and accelerated response. The analyst also participates in structured threat-hunting rotations and contributes to continual improvement of detection logic and knowledge assets.Core Responsibilities 1. Alert Management: Triage alerts in real time, enrich them with asset, user, and threat-intelligence context, and determine disposition.Document clear investigative narratives and, when necessary, escalate with concise, evidence-based summaries.2. Runbook Execution and ImprovementExecute established response runbooks rigorously.Identify deficiencies, raise tuning requests, and update knowledge-base articles to enhance future efficiency and accuracy.3. Threat HuntingLead a theme-based hunt one week per month, focusing on recent CVEs, adversary techniques, or emerging threat campaigns. Deliver written reports detailing methodologies, findings, and coverage gaps. 4. Incident Response SupportProvide containment and initial investigation for Priority 1 and Priority 2 incidents.Participate in a scheduled weekend and after-hours on-call rotation, operating in tandem with Detection & Response engineers.5. Vulnerability Signal ValidationEvaluate vulnerability-scanner outputs, confirm exploitability in the production environment, and liaise with remediation teams by issuing precise, risk-driven tickets.