OT Incident Response

About the Role

Accenture Middle East is seeking an OT Incident Response professional to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role serves as the senior technical authority within the OT Security Operations Center (SOC), focusing on advanced threat hunting, digital forensics, incident response, and detection engineering within Operational Technology (OT) environments.

Role Summary

The OT SOC L3 Analyst leads the response to complex and high-severity OT incidents. The role involves developing the SOC's OT detection capabilities, serving as an escalation point, and acting as a subject matter expert for industrial threat scenarios. The analyst translates OT threat intelligence into actionable detections and drives continuous improvement of the SOC's OT defenses.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead investigations and response for complex, high-severity, and suspected targeted attacks against OT/ICS environments.
• Perform proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting across OT networks and assets, including designing and running hunt campaigns.
• Conduct OT-aware Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) for forensic acquisition and analysis of ICS hosts, engineering workstations, HMIs, controllers, and network captures, ensuring process safety and evidence integrity.
• Design, build, and tune detection content and correlation rules, managing the detection engineering lifecycle for the OT SOC.
• Operationalize OT threat intelligence (*, threat groups such as ELECTRUM/Sandworm and XENOTIME; malware such as TRITON/TRISIS, Industroyer, and PIPEDREAM) and map it to detections via MITRE ATT&CK for ICS.
• Define, document, and continuously improve OT incident-response playbooks and runbooks.
• Serve as a senior escalation point and mentor for L1/L2 analysts, providing technical coaching and quality review of investigations.
• Lead and support OT tabletop exercises and purple team/adversary-emulation activities.
• Advise on OT network architecture, segmentation, and monitoring placement to close detection gaps.
• Produce executive and technical incident reports, briefing stakeholders on root cause, impact, and remediation.
• Support compliance, audit, and regulatory reporting aligned to NCA OTCC-1:2022, ECC, and ISA/IEC 62443, including incident-notification expectations to the NCA.

Required Skills and Attributes

• Expert analytical, forensic, and reverse-engineering/malware-analysis aptitude in an OT context.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Sound judgment in balancing cybersecurity response against process safety and operational availability.
• Availability for on-call escalation and incident leadership outside normal hours.

Experience Required

Candidates should possess between 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in the field.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.