Executive Consultant – Incident Response and Intelligence Services

Dubai Emirate

On-site

AED 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

IBM Middle East is seeking an Executive Consultant for Incident Response and Intelligence Services in Dubai. You will advise clients, analyze requirements, and implement security solutions while balancing enabling and protecting the client’s operations.

The role spans on-site and remote work with the IRIS team across the Middle East. The position emphasizes incident response expertise, clear communication, and collaboration with clients as trusted advisors to improve security postures and

Qualifications

Experience in IT security investigations and incident handling.
Familiarity with standard security incident response methodologies.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work effectively in teams and independently.

Responsibilities

Assist clients during incidents and provide guidance as a trusted advisor.
Identify, contain and control threats to enable business continuity.
Support proactive services to reduce incident likelihood and impact.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to remediate and report findings.

Skills

IT security

NIST SP 800-61

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Written & verbal communication

Time management

Job description

Job Ref: 45834

Location: Dubai

Address: IBM Building, Dubai Internet City

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Executive Consultant – Incident Response and Intelligence Services

Information and Data are some of the most important organisational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analysing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client’s organisation with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM X-Force IRIS (Incident Response and Intelligence Services) is growing. We are looking for talented people across Middle East to work in our flagship Incident Response and Proactive Services team. In IRIS, our mission is to offer assistance and advice to our clients whenever they have an incident.

We help our clients identify, contain and control the threats and to enable them to return to business-as-usual as efficiently and effectively as possible. When not responding to incidents, we actively help our clients prepare themselves by providing a number of proactive services. These proactive services are our second mission: we enable our clients to reduce the likelihood of an incident and the need to call the IRIS team for assistance.

Our services are ever growing, but include such things as first responder training, on-site table-top exercises (TTXs) and threat hunting operations. All of our team members are incident responders. We work both on-site and remotely to provide the IRIS services to our clients across Middle East. We work closely with our client as ‘trusted advisors’ during what are usually difficult and complex periods for them.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

IT security and investigations.
Practical experience of NIST SP 800-61 or similar methodologies.
Working within teams of investigators on large scale, diverse and complex investigations.
Contributing to IT Security projects.
Broad understanding of IT Security to protect and monitor the enterprise.
Ability to recognise and deal appropriately with potentially confidential and sensitive information.
Awareness of relevant legislation and familiarity with working within EU and international legislative and regulatory frameworks.
Analytical techniques, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Effective interpersonal skills.
Proficiency in technical and non-technical writing and verbal communication.
Effective time management, organisational and continual re-prioritisation skills.
Ability to effectively collaborate and operate within a team as well as independently.