Penetration testing, defensive platform deployment and customer advisory work come together in the Cybersecurity Engineer (Technical) – Experienced vacancy at General Computers and Electronics Co. in Amman, Jordan. Pre-sales support for the sales team is part of the post as well.
What the cybersecurity engineer job in Amman involves
The engineer delivers the company’s security services and rolls out and supports its security solutions, serving mid-market and enterprise clients. The employer describes the post as the technical backbone behind its offerings, with a technical advisory role toward customers on top.
Responsibilities
- Carries out network, web application, internal, external and wireless penetration tests plus vulnerability assessments, following methodologies such as OWASP, PTES and NIST
- Deploys EDR, XDR, email security and SIEM products and handles their configuration and tuning
- Looks into security alerts and incidents, responds to them, and supports customers through containment and recovery
- Documents findings in reports with an executive summary, a rating for each risk and concrete steps to fix it, and presents the findings to a technical audience and to management
- Handles demos, POC setups and security architecture reviews for pre-sales alongside the sales team, and scopes engagements by estimating effort, defining rules of engagement and drafting technical proposals
- Helps customers with vendor risk assessments and security questionnaires, and with the technical controls that GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance calls for
- Offers customers technical support and health checks after the sale, and passes knowledge on to their IT and security teams
- Keeps up with new threats and vulnerabilities and with attacker techniques (MITRE ATT&CK), and feeds improvements into internal tooling and methodology
Requirements
- Practical cybersecurity work, for example in penetration testing, security operations or security solution deployment
- Strong report-writing and communication skills in English and Arabic
Preferred qualifications
- Industry certifications such as CEH, CPENT or eJPT, none of them mandatory
- OSCP, flagged as a strong plus
How to apply
Candidates send their CV through the company’s careers page: apply using the button below. The listing carries job reference 6/2026.
Apply through the employer's link: gce.com.jo
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