Senior Analyst - Cyber Defense

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and implement strategies for containment and recovery, including advanced forensics and mitigating actions to contain malicious activity. Facilitate further remedial actions and identification of threat campaigns to strengthen the overall security posture.
• Prioritize and manage actions during incident response, carry out analysis for the containment of cybersecurity incidents, and communicate any special requirements of high severity incidents to internal stakeholders to ensure comprehensive threat mitigations.
• Respond to incidents raised by Security Operations Analysts by following Bapco Energies’ Incident Response process. Carry out advanced technical tasks such as forensics and malware reverse-engineering to identify threat scope and remediate the most difficult incidents to restore the services.
• Perform regular vulnerability assessments to assess the effectiveness of security systems. Isolate and remediate areas of weakness to ensure continuous and optimal protection for integrity and availability.
• Review alerts, threat intelligence and other security data, and perform Threat Hunting to identify threats and take the appropriate steps to eliminate them.
• Develop incident playbooks, custom scripts, or utility applications to process repetitive tasks and increase CDC/NOC team productivity; develop use cases to support CDC operations.
• Support the creation of business continuity/disaster recovery plans, including conducting disaster recovery tests, publishing test results, and making changes necessary to address deficiencies for ensuring the business continuity.
• Assist in the design of systems security infrastructure and provide technical security guidance as needed for projects.
• Participate in development of security plans, risk assessment plans, business continuity plans, incident response plans, and cybersecurity policies and standards.
• Train and mentor CDC/NOC analysts in utilizing security tools and understanding security threats and intelligence.

Bapco Energies operates a portfolio spanning the entire energy value chain in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The portfolio includes wholly-owned subsidiaries and specialized operating companies. Together, these companies drive Bapco Energies' mission to power the next generation. The integrated Company leading the energy transition in the Kingdom of Bahrain, powering the next generation....