Network Security Associate Manager

About the Role

Accenture Middle East is seeking an experienced Network Security Associate Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role requires 5-10 years of experience and focuses on managing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and enhancing network security infrastructure to ensure high availability and business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Network Security team, providing technical guidance and facilitating knowledge transfer.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex network security incidents and critical outages.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Manage security changes, upgrades, configuration reviews, and infrastructure improvements.
• Ensure service availability, SLA compliance, operational efficiency, and business continuity.
• Identify security risks, architecture gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with SOC, infrastructure, application teams, vendors, and clients to resolve complex technical issues.
• Demonstrate strong ownership, decision-making, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Technical Expertise Required

• Palo Alto NGFW & Panorama: Advanced hands-on experience in firewall administration, centralized management, security policies, NAT, VPN, threat prevention, HA, and troubleshooting.
• Fortinet FortiGate: Strong expertise in firewall configuration, security policies, IPS, VPN, routing, SD-WAN, HA, and advanced troubleshooting.
• F5 BIG-IP (LTM, APM & ASM): Experience in load balancing, application delivery, SSL offloading, VPN, access management, WAF policies, and application security.
• Infoblox DNS Security: Experience with DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI), DNS threat protection, and troubleshooting.
• Cloudflare WAF & DDoS: Knowledge of web application protection, DDoS mitigation, security rules, traffic analysis, and incident response.
• Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA): Experience with secure web gateways, SSL inspection, traffic forwarding, cloud security policies, and zero-trust network access.
• Network Security Architecture: Strong understanding of HLD/LLD, network segmentation, DMZ, routing protocols (BGP/OSPF), HA/DR, secure connectivity, and defense-in-depth.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on technical expertise across multi-vendor network security technologies and enterprise security architecture. This role requires proven team leadership capabilities and a commitment to maintaining robust and resilient network security infrastructure.