OT Security Manager

About the Role

Accenture Middle East is seeking an OT Security Manager to lead Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Cybersecurity consulting engagements. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, and involves helping clients protect critical industrial environments while maintaining safety, availability, and operational resilience. The position combines deep OT/ICS cybersecurity expertise with consulting leadership, client advisory, delivery management, and business development.

Role Context and Focus

The OT Cybersecurity Manager will lead programs that encompass OT security strategy, architecture, risk assessment, IT/OT convergence, and security implementation across complex industrial and critical infrastructure environments. This involves a focus on securing various industrial systems and networks.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end OT/ICS cybersecurity consulting engagements, from assessment and strategy through architecture, remediation, and implementation.
• Assess and secure industrial environments, including ICS, SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, engineering workstations, historians, industrial networks, and connected IIoT assets.
• Lead OT cybersecurity maturity assessments, risk assessments, gap assessments, and site-level security reviews.
• Develop OT cybersecurity strategies, transformation roadmaps, governance models, and multi-year remediation programs.
• Design secure OT network architectures, including segmentation, security zones and conduits, industrial DMZs, and controlled IT/OT connectivity.
• Advise clients on OT asset discovery and inventory, vulnerability management, secure remote access, privileged access, industrial network monitoring, and endpoint protection.
• Lead the design and implementation of cybersecurity controls while ensuring solutions respect production availability, process safety, and operational requirements.
• Develop OT incident response, monitoring, and cyber-resilience capabilities, including integration between plant environments and enterprise security operations.
• Assess legacy industrial systems and develop practical risk-treatment approaches where patching, upgrading, or replacing assets may be operationally constrained.
• Provide leadership on IT/OT convergence, ensuring enterprise cybersecurity controls are appropriately adapted for operational environments.
• Apply OT security standards and frameworks, including ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST guidance for ICS/OT environments.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams comprising OT security specialists, cybersecurity architects, engineers, and consultants, ensuring delivery quality and client outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with CISOs, CIOs, OT leaders, engineering teams, plant management, and security stakeholders.
• Facilitate client workshops, architecture reviews, risk discussions, and executive presentations.
• Support proposals, RFPs, solution development, and client pursuits for OT cybersecurity and critical infrastructure transformation.
• Contribute to the development of Accenture's OT security capabilities, methodologies, and market offerings.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Cybersecurity.
• Experience in leading consulting engagements for critical industrial environments.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Riyadh, focusing on client engagements within the Middle East region.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be disclosed during the application process.