Security Delivery Lead — SOC, IR & EDR/NDR Expert

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

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