Senior Associate Cyber Resilience

Job Description

Job Purpose

The Senior Associate – Cyber Resilience plays a key role in enhancing the organizations ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. This role bridges cybersecurity operations and business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR), ensuring that cyber resilience is embedded across critical systems and processes. Working closely with the SOC, VAPT, IT Infrastructure, and BCP/DR teams, the role drives resilience exercises, recovery testing, and post-incident readiness.

The role is only for UAE National.

Roles And Responsibilities

Cyber Resilience Planning & Execution

• Develop and maintain cyber resilience plans aligned with business priorities and cyber threat landscape.
• Support the integration of cyber incident scenarios into enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
• Define and track cyber-specific Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for critical services.
  
  

Resilience Testing & Validation

• Coordinate and execute regular backup and restore validation, failover tests, and tabletop exercises simulating cyber incidents (e.g., ransomware, DDoS, data breach).
• Partner with IT/Infra teams to assess the resilience of infrastructure and critical applications.
• Monitor effectiveness of cyber recovery capabilities and ensure readiness of key systems and teams.
  
  

Cyber Crisis Management Support

• Support the Security operational lead for resilience during major cyber incidents.
• Maintain and test the cyber crisis communication and escalation framework.
• Support coordination between SOC, IR, business units, and executive teams during crises.
  
  

Incident Response & Post-Incident Readiness

• Assist the SOC and IR team in aligning incident response playbooks with resilience and recovery requirements.
• Participate in post-incident reviews to identify resilience gaps and track lessons learned to closure.
• Ensure cyber recovery scenarios are updated based on evolving threats and incidents.
  
  

Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Define and report on cyber resilience KPIs/KRIs (e.g., exercise success rate, recovery time effectiveness, backup health status).
• Develop dashboards and management reporting on resilience preparedness and maturity.
• Identify areas for automation or process improvement in recovery and readiness workflows.
  
  

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Liaise with Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk, and IT Infrastructure teams to ensure cyber risks are addressed in continuity plans.
• Provide cyber resilience expertise in audits, assessments, and regulatory reviews.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors and service providers to evaluate and improve their cyber resilience posture (as applicable).
  
  

Related Years Of Experience

Min of 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IT operations, or business continuity roles.

Technical And Interpersonal Skills

• Hands-on experience in incident response, backup and recovery validation, and cyber crisis management.
• Strong understanding of cyber threats and recovery challenges
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving in high-pressure scenarios
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across technical and business teams
• Attention to detail with documentation and reporting
• Self-driven, structured, and collaborative working style
  
  

QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field.
• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional)
• CRISC, CISM or equivalent
• ITIL, ISO 27001/27031 knowledge
• GIAC certifications in incident response, resilience, or cyber defense are a plus
  
  

Job Details

Role Level: Mid-Level Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Abu Dhabi Company Website: http://www.aldar.com Job Function: Information Technology (IT) Company Industry/

Sector: Real Estate

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