Senior Records Security Specialist

Job Title:

Senior Records Security Specialist

Location:

United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

We are seeking an experienced Senior Records Security Specialist to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and traceability of organizational records throughout their lifecycle. The role focuses on records access governance, information classification, secure document management, retention controls, data protection, audit readiness, and records security risk assessment. The successful candidate will collaborate with information security, legal, compliance, IT, records management, and business teams to ensure that sensitive records are appropriately protected and managed in accordance with organizational policies and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Develop, maintain, and improve records security policies, standards, procedures, and control frameworks.
• Establish and monitor security requirements for the creation, classification, storage, access, transmission, retention, and disposal of organizational records.
• Review records management platforms, document repositories, electronic archives, and enterprise content management systems for security and access control effectiveness.
• Define and maintain information classification categories, handling requirements, and records sensitivity labels.
• Conduct periodic reviews of user permissions and access rights to ensure that records are accessible only to authorized personnel.
• Monitor access logs, document activity records, audit trails, and security events to identify unauthorized access or suspicious records activity.
• Assess risks associated with confidential, restricted, personal, financial, legal, and business-critical records.
• Coordinate with IT and cybersecurity teams to strengthen encryption, authentication, backup, recovery, and secure information transfer controls.
• Review records retention schedules and ensure security requirements are incorporated into archival and disposal procedures.
• Monitor compliance with data protection requirements, internal records policies, and applicable information governance standards.
• Investigate reported records security incidents, unauthorized disclosures, inappropriate access, and document handling exceptions.
• Maintain incident records, investigation evidence, remediation plans, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Support the implementation of secure electronic records management systems and automated document governance workflows.
• Review third-party records storage and document processing arrangements to identify information security risks.
• Coordinate security assessments of document management applications, cloud repositories, and records storage services.
• Support legal hold and records preservation processes by coordinating secure access, retention controls, and audit evidence with authorized legal teams.
• Prepare records security risk assessments, control effectiveness reports, access review summaries, and management dashboards.
• Coordinate internal and external audits by providing records security policies, access evidence, control documentation, and remediation updates.
• Recommend improvements to reduce unauthorized access, excessive permissions, information leakage, and records management vulnerabilities.
• Deliver awareness guidance on secure document handling, records classification, access responsibilities, and information protection practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Information Management, Records Management, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Typically 5–8 years of experience in records security, information governance, information…