Cybersecurity Compliance & Technical Controls Consultant - 2-Year Engagement
MENA Consultant · Engineering · Senior · 1mo ago
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“Location: remote.”
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- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
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About the role
In this 2-year engagement, you will assess whether cybersecurity controls are effectively implemented across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and critical assets. You will evaluate adherence to applicable regulatory standards, Minimum Baseline Security Standards (MBSS), and secure configuration baselines, while managing audit evidence, remediation workflows, policies, and compliance dashboards.
What you'll do
- Assess and validate the implementation and effectiveness of cybersecurity controls against regulatory requirements, security frameworks, and MBSS.
- Conduct periodic and ad-hoc technical compliance assessments of critical assets, firewall rules, cloud services, and SIEM implementations.
- Verify adherence to secure configuration baselines and system hardening standards across servers, databases, operating systems, and network devices.
- Manage compliance evidence repositories, support internal and external audits, and track remediation of audit and pentest findings.
- Develop, review, and maintain cybersecurity policies, procedures, compliance dashboards, KPIs, and KRIs.
What you bring
- 8–10 years of experience conducting technical cybersecurity compliance assessments against regulatory frameworks and MBSS.
- Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing secure configuration baselines, golden images, and hardening standards across enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience assessing cloud services, network firewall configurations, SIEM monitoring, and SSDLC controls.
- Proven track record managing compliance evidence, audit findings, and remediation workflows.
About MENA Consultant
MENA Consultant delivers cybersecurity advisory and consulting services across technical compliance, governance, and security controls.
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