Senior Cyber Security Engineer KSA

Overview

Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC enables a world where everything can be intelligently connected through 5G and AI innovations. The company’s technologies support smarter vehicles, cities, and manufacturing, delivering value across multiple industries.

YOU MUST BE A SAUDI NATIONAL TO BE CONSIDERED.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders across the company to secure complex infrastructure and applications. The role requires strong communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, and a passion for learning in a rapidly evolving environment.

• 5+ years of cybersecurity‑relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications.
• Fluency in Arabic.

• Hands‑on security engineering for large datacenter and sovereign AI deployments, including cryptography, key management, and secure infrastructure architecture.
• Design, implement, and operate Infrastructure Identity & PKI, maintain mTLS, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure key/secret handling using KMS platforms; produce and maintain operational runbooks.
• Configure and operate perimeter security controls, managing next‑generation firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet) to enforce ingress/egress policies and protect cluster boundaries.
• Implement data sovereignty and compliance controls by validating architectures against regulatory frameworks such as KSA NCA ECC, CCC, PDPL, identifying gaps, and executing remediation.
• Engineer storage security protections, enabling encryption at rest and enforcing NFS/S3 access controls on VAST/DDN platforms to secure training data, model weights, and sensitive assets.
• Secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads, applying cluster hardening, pod security standards, and workload isolation with platform and software teams.
• Execute vulnerability management operations, run scans, validate findings, prioritize critical CVEs, and work with engineers to remediate issues through closure.
• Serve as an active incident responder, performing investigation, containment, and remediation for security events, coordinating with the MSSP during escalations.
• Implement IAM controls across infrastructure and platforms, enforcing least privilege, RBAC, and privileged access for users, service accounts, and workloads.
• Perform hands‑on threat modeling and security reviews, identifying attack paths, validating assumptions, documenting findings, and strengthening defenses across infrastructure and AI systems.
• Lead and directly respond to escalated security incidents during business hours and after hours, providing rapid triage, decisive containment, and coordinated investigation while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and executives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of cybersecurity‑relevant work experience.
• OR high school diploma or equivalent and 4+ years of cybersecurity‑relevant work experience.

• Salary including housing and transport allowance.
• Stock (RSUs) and performance‑related bonus.
• 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave.
• 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Employee stock purchase scheme.
• Child education allowance.
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed).
• Life and medical insurance.
• Live+ Well reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support you in the hiring process.

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