Principal Quantum-Ready Cybersecurity Engineer

📍 Location: Muscat, Oman

🏢 Work Arrangement: Hybrid

💼 Employment Type: Permanent

🎯 Career Level: Principal Engineering

🏛 Industry: Financial Technology | Cybersecurity | Cloud Security | Enterprise Infrastructure | Digital Banking

Role Summary

An advanced financial technology innovation programme is seeking a highly accomplished Principal Quantum-Ready Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the resilience of enterprise financial systems against evolving cyber threats while preparing security architectures for future cryptographic advancements.

This strategic engineering role combines deep technical expertise with enterprise leadership, ensuring that financial platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and capable of supporting mission-critical digital financial services.

Key Responsibilities

Security Architecture

• Design enterprise cybersecurity frameworks.
• Develop next-generation cryptographic strategies.
• Strengthen Zero Trust architecture.
• Secure enterprise cloud environments.
• Improve identity and access management.

Engineering Excellence

• Build automated security pipelines.
• Conduct security architecture assessments.
• Enhance infrastructure resilience.
• Improve incident detection capabilities.
• Support secure software delivery practices.

Leadership

• Lead enterprise cybersecurity engineering teams.
• Mentor senior security professionals.
• Define technical standards and governance.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, software, and DevSecOps teams.

Continuous Innovation

• Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies.
• Improve operational security maturity.
• Develop long-term cyber resilience strategies.
• Drive continuous engineering improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10–15 years of enterprise cybersecurity or cloud engineering experience.
• Extensive experience securing enterprise financial platforms.
• Strong leadership and architectural decision-making skills.
• Excellent analytical and communication capabilities.

Technical Expertise

• AWS Security Services
• Microsoft Azure Security
• Google Cloud Security
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• Linux
• Python
• SIEM Platforms
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Infrastructure as Code
• Security Automation
• API Security
• Threat Intelligence
• Cloud Observability

Compensation & Benefits

• Premium tax-free salary package
• Executive performance bonus
• Comprehensive family healthcare
• Housing allowance
• Annual return airfare
• Sponsored professional certifications
• Executive leadership development
• Flexible hybrid work environment
• Global collaboration opportunities
• Long-term career progression within an internationally recognized fintech ecosystem