Security Engineer (TrendMicro, CrowdStrike EDR and Tenable)

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Department: Staffing Solutions

Experience: 5 Years

Skills: EDR, Tenable, TrendMicro

• Incident Response: Investigate high-severity alerts and lead containment actions for advanced security breaches.
• Platform Administration: Manage, tune, and maintain enterprise EDR and endpoint protection agents (such as TrendMicro DSM, Symantec EPP, CrowdStrike EDR)
• Policy Management: Design, test, and deploy strict security policies, exclusion rules, enhancing the security posture and hardening guidelines across global endpoints.
• Threat Hunting: Proactively search environment telemetry for hidden adversary behaviours and indicators of compromise (IoCs).
• Malware Analysis: Inspects suspicious files, memory dumps, or scripts to understand attacker methods and build defenses.
• Root Cause Analysis: Perform deep-dive forensic analysis on compromised hosts and write comprehensive post-incident reports.
• Vendor Escalation: Partner with tier-4 vendor support to resolve software bugs, driver conflicts, or complex platform issues.

• Design safes: Establish safe structures, retention periods, and permissions.
• Tune policies: Optimize Master Policy rules and platform settings.
• Manage Endpoints: Onboard enforce EPP & EDR policies to meet compliance posture
• Enhance Security Posture : Ensure on Security Policy enforcement and effectiveness

• Vulnerability Scanning: Schedule and oversee network and host-based vulnerability assessments using tools like Tenable, Qualys, or Rapid7.
• Risk Prioritization: Analyze vulnerability scan reports to prioritize remediation based on active threats and business impact.
• Remediation Tracking: Collaborate with IT and system administration teams to ensure timely patching of critical vulnerabilities.
• Compliance Reporting: Generate security posture metrics and compliance dashboards for leadership teams.

• Experience: 5+ years in IT security operations, with at least 3 years focused specifically on EDR and endpoint security.
• Certifications: Industry credentials like CISSP, CEH, GCIH, or vendor-specific EDR certifications.
• Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, Active Directory, and cloud environments.