Security Delivery Associate Manager

Title: OT Cybersecurity Infrastructure Consultant

Location: Riyadh / Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 742,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

About Accenture Security

Join Accenture Security to pioneer security solutions that blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed services. Using the coolest next-gen tech, you’ll have every chance to stay one step ahead of cybercrime and out-hack the hackers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Understand current state capabilities of technologies, identify gaps, and plan for tools healthiness, upgrade, and maximum technologies utilization.

• System Management: Maintain configurations, Harden the OT Sec platform following best practices, Manage role-based access, Version maintenance, Management of signature updates, Certificate renewal on devices.

• Availability & Health Monitoring: Health & Availability monitoring of OT Sec appliances, Manual creation of tickets in ITSM for fault management to track the activities for non-responsive devices, Monitoring of integrated services.

• Manage patches updates through centralized OT Patch management system available from Client's third-party vendor(s), and coordinate installation with Automation OEM on OT Systems. Generate patch management status reports with recommendations.

• OT AD Policy and Rule Management: Policy configuration changes, user's authentication & authorization, creation, delete and review.

• OT Vulnerability Management: Notify the stakeholders when systems installed in the OT environment suffer any missing patches and vulnerabilities, define compensating control remediations to inform remediation by Site O&M / Automation OEM's including testing etc., and Perform remediation tracking.

• Backup & Restore Management: develop Schedule & perform backups of the configuration, Restoration testing of configurations and generate status reports.

• Change Management: Adhere to OT change request process for any applicable environment maintenance changes to sustain and maintain the OT Sec platform.

• Capacity Management: Managing performance and sizing of the OT Cybersecurity Solution(s) as per vendor(s) recommendations.

• Reporting: Standard reporting as specified in deliverables.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven track in OT Cybersecurity general management consulting with stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

• Flexibility to travel.

• Fluent in Arabic and English language.

• Ability to effectively communicate insights relating to an organization's threat environment to improve its risk management posture.

• Ability to understand and comply with OT Cybersecurity policies, standards, and related documentations.

• Ability to communicate technical and planning information at the same level as a stakeholder's understanding.

• Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and treatment methods.

• Knowledge of relevant OT Cybersecurity aspects of legislative and regulatory requirements, relating to ethics and privacy.

• Knowledge of OT Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities posed by new technologies and malicious actors.

• Knowledge of ICS operating environments and functions.

• Knowledge of ICS network architectures and communication protocols.

• Knowledge of IT/OT Cybersecurity authentication, authorization, and access control methods.

• Knowledge of national OT Cybersecurity laws and regulations such as NCA ECC, OTCC, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, information security or relevant.

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity with at least 5+ years of proven experience on IT/OT cybersecurity Shall be familiar or certified on these technologies: Microsoft Network Policy Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Veeam and Acronis Backup, Netskope, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Fortinet Firewalls - Forti manager, Tenable Security Center and OT Suite, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, PRTG, McAfee / Trellix EPO Endpoint Security and Application Whitelisting, VMWare VCenter.

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast-paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues.

• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools.

• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards.

• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends.

• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live.

Next Steps

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