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About the Role

Accenture Saudi Arabia is seeking an OT Incident Response professional to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role functions as the senior technical authority within the Operational Technology Security Operations Center (OT SOC), responsible for advanced threat hunting, OT-aware digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), and detection engineering. The individual will lead responses to complex and high-severity OT incidents, develop the SOC's OT detection capabilities, and serve as a subject matter expert for industrial threat scenarios, translating OT threat intelligence into actionable detections.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead investigations and response efforts for complex, high-severity, and suspected targeted attacks within OT/ICS environments.
• Perform proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting across OT networks and assets, including designing and executing hunt campaigns.
• Conduct OT-aware DFIR, including 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 address 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.

Educational Background and Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer/Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree is a plus.
• 6–10+ years of cybersecurity experience, with a minimum of 4 years specifically in OT/ICS security operations, DFIR, or threat hunting.
• Proven experience leading OT/ICS incident response and forensic investigations.

Technical Skills and Domain Knowledge

• Deep expertise in OT protocols and ICS architectures (DCS, SCADA, PLC, SIS) and the Purdue model.
• Strong command of OT monitoring platforms (*, Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos, Tenable OT, Defender for IoT) and SIEM detection engineering (*, Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel).
• Advanced working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, NIST SP 800-82, ISA/IEC 62443, and NCA OTCC.
• Expert analytical, forensic, and reverse-engineering/malware-analysis aptitude within an OT context.

Key Attributes and Preferred Certifications

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Sound judgment in balancing cybersecurity response against process safety and operational availability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; Arabic is strongly preferred for regulator and executive engagement.
• GIAC certifications such as GRID, GCIP, GICSP, GCFA, or GREM are strongly preferred.
• Vendor expert-level certifications from platforms like Dragos, Claroty, or Nozomi are also preferred.

Work Environment and Expectations

This full-time position is based in Riyadh and requires availability for on-call escalation and incident leadership outside normal business hours. The role involves driving continuous improvement of the SOC's OT defenses and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance the overall cybersecurity posture.