OT Security Manager

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; Vor Ort; SAR 300.000 - 520.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Accenture Middle East seeks an OT Cybersecurity Manager to lead consulting engagements across OT/ICS security strategy, architecture, risk assessments and program delivery. You will guide client advisory, delivery management, and business development for critical industrial environments.

Responsibilities include designing secure OT networks, managing governance, and enabling IT/OT convergence while preserving safety and production uptime. Relevant certifications are advantageous.

Qualifikationen

• 8-12+ years of cybersecurity, industrial automation or OT experience with hands-on exposure to OT/ICS cybersecurity.
• Experience delivering OT security assessments, architecture, transformation or implementation programs.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management and executive communication capabilities.
• Experience applying ISA/IEC 62443 within industrial environments.

Aufgaben

• Lead end-to-end OT IC cybersecurity consulting engagements from assessment and strategy through architecture remediation and implementation.
• Assess and secure industrial environments including SCADA, DCS, PLCs, HMIs, historians and industrial networks.
• Lead OT cybersecurity maturity assessments, risk assessments and site-level security reviews.
• Develop OT cybersecurity strategies, transformation roadmaps and governance models.
• Design secure OT network architectures including segmentation, security zones, DMZs and IT/OT connectivity
• Advise clients on OT asset discovery, vulnerability management, remote access, privileged access and monitoring
• Lead the design and implementation of cybersecurity controls ensuring production availability and safety
• Develop OT incident response and cyber-resilience capabilities including integration with enterprise security operations
• Assess legacy systems and apply risk-treatment approaches where upgrades may be constrained
• Provide leadership on IT/OT convergence adapting enterprise controls for OT environments
• Apply OT security standards and frameworks including ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST guidance
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to ensure delivery quality and client outcomes
• Build relationships with CISOs, OT leaders and engineering teams
• Facilitate workshops, risk discussions and executive presentations
• Support proposals, RFPs and business development for OT cybersecurity
• Contribute to Accenture’s OT security capabilities and market offerings

Kenntnisse

OT cybersecurity

Consulting leadership

Client advisory

Delivery management

IT/OT convergence

Security architecture

Risk assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Tools

ISA/IEC 62443 framework

Jobbeschreibung

Role Overview

Lead Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Cybersecurity consulting engagements helping clients protect critical industrial environments while maintaining safety, availability and operational resilience. The role combines deep OT/ICS cybersecurity expertise with consulting leadership, client advisory, delivery management and business development. The OT Cybersecurity Manager will lead programs spanning OT security strategy, architecture, risk assessment, IT/OT convergence and security implementation across complex industrial and critical infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end OT IC cybersecurity consulting engagements from assessment and strategy through architecture remediation and implementation
• Assess and secure industrial environments including IC SCADA DCS PLC HMI engineering workstations historians industrial networks and connected IIoT assets
• Lead OT cybersecurity maturity assessments risk assessments gap assessments and site-level security reviews
• Develop OT cybersecurity strategies transformation roadmaps governance models and multi-year remediation programs
• Design secure OT network architectures including segmentation security zones and conduits industrial DMZs and controlled IT OT connectivity
• Advise clients on OT asset discovery and inventory vulnerability management secure remote access privileged access industrial network monitoring and endpoint protection
• Lead the design and implementation of cybersecurity controls while ensuring solutions respect production availability process safety and operational requirements
• Develop OT incident response monitoring and cyber-resilience capabilities including integration between plant environments and enterprise security operations
• Assess legacy industrial systems and develop practical risk-treatment approaches where patching upgrading or replacing assets may be operationally constrained
• Provide leadership on IT OT convergence ensuring enterprise cybersecurity controls are appropriately adapted for operational environments
• Apply OT security standards and frameworks including ISA IEC 62443 and NIST guidance for IC OT environments
• Lead multidisciplinary teams comprising OT security specialists cybersecurity architects engineers and consultants ensuring delivery quality and client outcomes
• Build trusted relationships with CISOs CIOs OT leaders engineering teams plant management and security stakeholders
• Facilitate client workshops architecture reviews risk discussions and executive presentations
• Support proposals RFPs solution development and client pursuits for OT cybersecurity and critical infrastructure transformation
• Contribute to the development of Accenture s OT security capabilities methodologies and market offerings

8 12+ years of cybersecurity, industrial automation or OT experience, with significant hands-on exposure to OT/ICS cybersecurity. Strong practical knowledge of industrial environments including SCADA, DCS, PLCs, HMIs, historians and industrial control networks. Demonstrated experience delivering OT security assessments, architecture, transformation or implementation programs. Strong understanding of IT/OT network segmentation, industrial DMZs, firewalls, remote access, asset discovery, vulnerability management and OT security monitoring. Experience applying ISA/IEC 62443 within industrial environments. The standard provides a cybersecurity framework specifically covering industrial automation and control environments. IEC guidance on cybersecurity for operational technology. Understanding of the cybersecurity considerations associated with legacy systems, industrial availability and process safety. Experience within Energy, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Transportation or other critical infrastructure sectors is strongly preferred. Strong consulting, stakeholder management and executive communication capabilities. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams and complex client engagements. Experience supporting proposals, RFP responses, solution shaping and business development. Relevant certifications such as ISA/IEC 62443, GICSP, CISSP, CISM or equivalent are advantageous.