Security Delivery Consultant📣 إعلان

About the Security Delivery Consultant Role

Accenture is seeking a Security Delivery Consultant to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves pioneering security solutions that integrate risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed services. Leveraging advanced technology, the role focuses on staying ahead of cyber threats and building resilience for businesses. Accenture Security offers comprehensive services from strategy development to managed security, helping clients mitigate risks and focus on innovation and growth.

Key Responsibilities: Vulnerability Management and NDR

The role includes the architecture, deployment, and maintenance of the ******* environment, encompassing Nessus scanners, agents, and connectors across IT and OT/ICS segments. Responsibilities involve managing scan policies, schedules, credentials, and scanner zones to ensure maximum coverage. Integration of Tenable with CMDB, ticketing systems (ServiceNow/Jira), and SIEM platforms is required. Maintaining scanner health, plugin updates, license compliance, and capacity planning, including upgrade and patch cycles, are essential. The position also defines and enforces the end-to-end vulnerability management process, including discovery, identification, risk scoring, SLA assignment, remediation, verification, and exception handling. A risk-based prioritization approach using CVSS, EPSS, VPR, asset criticality, and threat intelligence feeds will be applied. Driving remediation efforts through collaboration with system owners, providing clear guidance, and tracking SLA adherence via dashboards are key duties. Development, maintenance, and review of vulnerability management policy, standards, and procedures documentation are also part of the role.

Furthermore, the role involves the administration of the Darktrace NDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) platform, including the development and management of NDR policies and integration with SIEM and other security tools. Fine-tuning NDR detection models, adjusting sensitivity, and reducing false positives are critical. Monitoring NDR appliance health, sensor connectivity, and ensuring continuous network visibility are also required. Applying NDR updates, managing configuration changes, and ensuring alignment with security policies are part of the daily operations.

Key Responsibilities: Threat Intelligence Platform

This position also entails managing the day-to-day operations of the ThreatQ Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). This includes data ingestion, enrichment, and workflow configuration. Configuring and maintaining integrations with threat intelligence feeds is a core responsibility. Applying scoring models, enrichment rules, and prioritization logic to surface high-value intelligence, and building and optimizing automated workflows are also required. Maintaining integrations of the TIP with SIEM, security controls, or other platforms is essential for effective threat intelligence management.

Experience and Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess 5-10 years of relevant experience. Specific qualifications and skills will be assessed based on the detailed responsibilities outlined above, particularly concerning vulnerability management platforms, NDR solutions, and threat intelligence platforms.

Work Environment and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role operates within Accenture's global professional services framework, serving clients across various industries and geographies.