Security Delivery Consultant
Role Overview
Accenture Middle East is seeking a Security Delivery Consultant to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves strengthening organizations' ability to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. The consultant will serve as a senior cybersecurity practitioner, responsible for delivering and enhancing Security Operations Center capabilities.
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About the Role
Accenture Middle East is seeking a Security Delivery Consultant to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves strengthening organizations' ability to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. The consultant will serve as a senior cybersecurity practitioner, responsible for delivering and enhancing Security Operations Center capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- The Security Delivery Consultant will combine technical expertise with leadership and stakeholder management, guiding security teams through complex investigations and improving detection capabilities. Responsibilities include:
- Developing, maintaining, and improving Incident Response plans, SOC policies, processes, procedures, and operational playbooks.
- Leading and supporting the detection, investigation, containment, and response to cybersecurity events and incidents.
- Performing detailed analysis of security events and providing technical guidance to analysts.
- Providing technical leadership during complex incidents, investigations, and escalations.
- Participating in on-call and after-hours security support when required.
- SIEM and Detection Engineering
- Collaborating with SIEM engineers and cybersecurity teams to develop, refine, and optimize security correlation rules.
- Analyzing security telemetry and events to identify suspicious activity, attack patterns, and potential threats.
- Developing and tuning custom correlation and detection rules leveraging SIEM, EDR, and NDR telemetry.
- Identifying opportunities to enhance security detection coverage and monitoring effectiveness.
- Supporting the integration of endpoint, network, and other security technologies with enterprise SIEM platforms.
- EDR and NDR Administration
- Administering and optimizing enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies.
- Deploying, upgrading, and maintaining EDR agents across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.
- Monitoring endpoint agent health and troubleshooting systems.
- Developing, maintaining, and optimizing EDR security policies and configurations.
- Administering and optimizing Network Detection and Response (NDR) technologies.
- Developing, maintaining, and enhancing NDR policies and configurations.
- Integrating NDR technologies with SIEM and the broader security technology ecosystem.
- Cyber Intelligence and Leadership
- Producing clear, actionable cyber intelligence and security reports communicating technical findings, risks, and recommendations.
- Translating complex security issues for audiences ranging from security practitioners to senior management.
- Providing technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to cybersecurity team members.
- Collaborating effectively across SOC, infrastructure, network, application, and broader security teams.
Qualifications and Experience
- Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity. The role requires a strong technical background in Security Operations Center capabilities, including Incident Response, SIEM, EDR, and NDR. Experience in leading security teams and managing stakeholders is essential.
About Accenture Middle East
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