Senior Security Specialist - Cybersecurity
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 26 October 2026.
About the role
1. Mandatory Technical Requirements – Network Security
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Palo Alto Networks NGFW: Configuration, deployment, security policies, NAT, VPN, GlobalProtect, HA, security profiles, and Panorama management.
- Fortinet FortiGate: Firewall deployment, FortiOS administration, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, IPS, VPN, SD-WAN, HA, and troubleshooting.
- Network security architecture, routing, switching, VLANs, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and network segmentation.
- Firewall migration, firmware upgrades, performance optimization, and security hardening.
- Ability to independently manage customer implementations, troubleshooting, and technical escalations.
2. Additional Cybersecurity Technologies – Multi-Vendor Capabilities
The candidate should have practical experience in at least three of the following security domains, with the ability to develop expertise across additional technologies:
- NDR (Network Detection & Response): ExtraHop, LinkShadow, or equivalent.
- PAM (Privileged Access Management): CyberArk, Xage, FortiPAM, or equivalent.
- DAM (Database Activity Monitoring): Imperva, IBM Guardium, or equivalent.
- IAM / MFA: Entrust, OpenText, Microsoft Entra ID, or equivalent.
- Endpoint Security / EDR / XDR: Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Trend Micro, Microsoft Defender, or equivalent.
- SIEM / SOC Solutions: Splunk, Elastic, LogRhythm, or equivalent.
- DLP / Data Security: Forcepoint, Fortra, Thales, or equivalent.
- WAF / API Security: F5, Akamai, Cloudflare, Fortinet, or equivalent.
- Vulnerability Management: Tenable, Qualys, or equivalent.
- Zero Trust / ZTNA / SASE: Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Access, or equivalent.
3. Implementation & Technical Delivery Responsibilities
The selected candidate will be responsible for:
- Leading cybersecurity solution deployments, configurations, and integrations.
- Supporting Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Value (POV) activities.
- Providing L2/L3 troubleshooting and post-implementation technical support.
- Conducting technical health checks, upgrades, and security optimization.
- Preparing High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), implementation plans, and as-built documentation.
- Working closely with Presales, Sales, Project Management, and vendor technical teams.
- Supporting customer demonstrations, technical workshops, and knowledge transfer.
- Managing multiple cybersecurity projects and technologies simultaneously.
- Maintaining technical relationships with vendors and distributors.
- Participating in technical training and certifications for new cybersecurity solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience.
- Previous experience with a System Integrator, MSSP, or enterprise cybersecurity implementation team is highly preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and customer communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple technical responsibilities.
- Good command of English and Arabic.
- Willingness to attend customer sites and support critical implementations when required.
Benefits
Annualk Salary Raise
Annual Bonus
What this role asks for
Standard for security roles
Cybersecurity
Common in security postings at any company.
Compared with Optimiza's other open jobs.
The team: Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 8 open in Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in October: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Active Directory (5 of 8), Cybersecurity (3 of 8), Azure (2 of 8), Linux (2 of 8), Microsoft 365 (2 of 8), PowerShell (2 of 8), SIEM (2 of 8)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Entry-Level System Engineer posted Oct 26
- Junior Systems Engineer - Microsoft Infrastructure posted Aug 2
- Senior Technical Engineer posted Aug 2
- Junior System Engineer posted Aug 2
- Senior Technical Engineer posted Jun 3
- System Architect posted Mar 26
- Assocaite Security Engineer posted Oct 9
From the team and dates on Optimiza's own job board.
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