Security Delivery Consultant

Accenture; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is a leading global professional services company helping the world’s leading enterprises reinvent — building their digital core, unleashing the power of AI, and creating value at speed and scale. You’ll be a senior practitioner embedded in client security operations — owning the processes, tools, and people that keep enterprise environments protected.

This role blends deep technical delivery with team leadership, requiring someone who can operate at the analyst level, lead a cyber

Qualifications

• Proven experience in incident response planning and execution.
• Strong working knowledge of SOC policy, process, and procedure design.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and correlation rule development.
• Practical experience administering EDR and NDR technologies across multi-OS environments.
• Solid understanding of IR tools and solutions across detection, investigation, and response.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and develop a cyber team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills — able to articulate technical and strategic security matters to diverse audiences including senior management.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve Cybersecurity Center processes, procedures, and policies including incident response plans, SOC workflows, and operational runbooks
• Work with SIEM engineers and broader security teams to develop, refine, and tune correlation rules that improve detection accuracy and reduce noise
• Analyze security events and provide real-time guidance to team members during investigations and active incidents
• Administer and manage EDR technology across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments — including deployment, upgrades, agent health monitoring, policy management, and integration with SIEM and other security tools
• Administer and manage NDR technology — developing policies, creating custom correlation rules, integrating with SIEM, and periodically reviewing configurations to propose enhancements
• Manage support tickets with EDR/NDR vendors and coordinate resolution as needed
• Leverage IR tools and solutions across the full detection, investigation, and response lifecycle
• Produce cyber intelligence reports that communicate technical findings clearly to information security staff, non-technical business stakeholders, and senior management
• Lead the cyber team day-to-day and provide on-call support outside business hours when required

Skills

Incident response planning

SOC policy design

SIEM rule development

EDR/NDR administration

IR tools & solutions

Cybersecurity leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS

Tools

SIEM platforms

EDR

NDR

Job description

**Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company helping the world’s leading enterprises reinvent — building their digital core, unleashing the power of AI, and creating value at speed and scale. We bring together deep industry expertise, cutting-edge technology, and bold thinking to deliver outcomes that matter.

You’ll be a senior practitioner embedded in client security operations — owning the processes, tools, and people that keep enterprise environments protected. This role blends deep technical delivery with team leadership, requiring someone who can operate at the analyst level, lead a cyber team, and communicate complex security matters clearly to any audience.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve Cybersecurity Center processes, procedures, and policies including incident response plans, SOC workflows, and operational runbooks
• Work with SIEM engineers and broader security teams to develop, refine, and tune correlation rules that improve detection accuracy and reduce noise
• Analyze security events and provide real-time guidance to team members during investigations and active incidents
• Administer and manage EDR technology across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments — including deployment, upgrades, agent health monitoring, policy management, and integration with SIEM and other security tools
• Administer and manage NDR technology — developing policies, creating custom correlation rules, integrating with SIEM, and periodically reviewing configurations to propose enhancements
• Manage support tickets with EDR/NDR vendors and coordinate resolution as needed
• Leverage IR tools and solutions across the full detection, investigation, and response lifecycle
• Produce cyber intelligence reports that communicate technical findings clearly to information security staff, non-technical business stakeholders, and senior management
• Lead the cyber team day-to-day and provide on-call support outside business hours when required

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in incident response planning and execution
• Strong working knowledge of SOC policy, process, and procedure design
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and correlation rule development
• Practical experience administering EDR and NDR technologies across multi-OS environments
• Solid understanding of IR tools and solutions across detection, investigation, and response
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and develop a cyber team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills — able to articulate technical and strategic security matters to diverse audiences including senior management
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Bonus Points

• Experience integrating EDR/NDR with SIEM and broader security tooling ecosystems
• Background in producing executive-level cyber intelligence reporting
• Certifications such as GIAC GCIH, GMON, GCFA, or equivalent are strongly preferred

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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