Security Consultant

Accenture PLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture plc in the United Arab Emirates seeks an OT Cybersecurity professional to support end-to-end engagements across assessments, strategy, architecture, engineering and implementation. The role combines advisory and hands-on delivery, partnering with clients, OT teams, OEMs and vendors to secure OT environments aligned with business objectives.

You will design security architectures, engineer solutions, and develop roadmaps while staying current with IEC 62443, NIST, and ISO standards.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of cybersecurity experience, including OT/ICS exposure.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end OT cybersecurity engagements across assessments, strategy, architecture, engineering, and implementation.
• Develop technical deliverables such as HLDs/LLDs and implementation roadmaps.
• Collaborate with OT/IT teams, OEMs, and vendors to translate requirements into secure technical solutions.

Skills

OT/ICS cybersecurity

Cybersecurity consulting

Security architecture

Vulnerability management

Stakeholder management

Tools

IEC 62443

NIST

Job description

Role Overview

Support the delivery of OT Cybersecurity engagements across consulting, engineering, architecture, design, and implementation. This role combines advisory expertise with hands‑on technical delivery, partnering with clients, OT teams, OEMs, and technology vendors to design, implement, and maintain secure OT environments that align with business and operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end OT Cybersecurity engagements spanning assessments, strategy, architecture, engineering, design, and implementation.


• Conduct OT cybersecurity maturity assessments, gap analyses, risk assessments, and security reviews across industrial and critical infrastructure environments.


• Design and engineer OT cybersecurity solutions aligned with client requirements, operational needs, and industry best practices.


• Develop detailed OT security architectures, network designs, technical specifications, security controls, and implementation roadmaps.


• Support the implementation and configuration of OT security technologies, including network segmentation, firewalls, secure remote access, asset visibility, monitoring, vulnerability management, and other cybersecurity controls.


• Participate in technical design workshops, solution engineering, system integration, testing, commissioning, and operational handover activities.


• Collaborate with OT, engineering, IT, and cybersecurity teams to translate business and operational requirements into secure, practical technical solutions.


• Work closely with OT OEMs, system integrators, and technology vendors to design, integrate, and validate cybersecurity solutions.


• Apply industry‑leading OT cybersecurity standards and frameworks, including IEC 62443, NIST, NERC CIP, and ISO 27001/27019.


• Develop technical deliverables such as High‑Level Designs (HLDs), Low‑Level Designs (LLDs), security architectures, assessment reports, technical specifications, and implementation documentation.


• Support client workshops, technical presentations, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement activities.


• Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, solution development initiatives, and the creation of new OT cybersecurity offerings.


• Stay current with emerging OT technologies, cybersecurity threats, regulatory requirements, and engineering best practices.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• 4‑8 years of cybersecurity experience, including significant exposure to OT/ICS cybersecurity environments.


• Proven experience delivering OT cybersecurity consulting, engineering, design, and implementation engagements.


• Strong understanding of OT/ICS architectures, industrial networks, communication protocols, control systems, and engineering environments.


• Hands‑on experience designing, implementing, or supporting OT security technologies and solutions.


• Experience working with OT OEMs, system integrators, and industrial technology vendors.


• Strong knowledge of OT cybersecurity frameworks and standards, particularly IEC 62443 and NIST.


• Experience developing HLDs, LLDs, network and security architectures, technical designs, and implementation specifications.


• Experience supporting system integration, testing, commissioning, and operational handover activities is highly desirable.


• Relevant certifications such as GICSP, ISA/IEC 62443, CISSP, CISM, or equivalent are advantageous.


• Experience within Energy, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Mining, or other Critical Infrastructure sectors is preferred.


• Strong analytical, technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.


• Demonstrated ability to operate across both advisory and hands‑on engineering environments, translating cybersecurity requirements into practical and implementable solutions.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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