Senior Cybersecurity IR Consultant / Advisor

Saudi Networkers Services; Al Jubayl; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm located in Al Jubayl is seeking a Senior Incident Response professional. This role requires proven experience in the security industry, supervisory skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of IT/OT security and a proven ability to handle high-pressure situations.

Qualifications

• Proven security industry experience in a senior Incident Response role.
• Supervisory or management experience required.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills regardless of the audience.

Responsibilities

• Articulate security challenges to various experience levels.
• Formulate information security strategy as part of IS management.
• Balance goals of customers and organizations' Cyberdefense.

Skills

Security industry experience

Interpersonal skills

Communication and presentation skills

Self-motivation

IT/OT security knowledge

Infrastructure knowledge

Job description

Overview

The Role

• Proven security industry experience in a senior Incident Response role at a mid-enterprise organisation, consultancy practice or systems integrator.
• Supervisory or management experience.
• Knowledge of relevant working groups and councils and forums for information security.
• A natural team player, able to communicate and work effectively with all stakeholders.
• Business focused and able to balance the goals of our customers and organizations' Cyberdefense.
• Have an excellent communication and presentation skills regardless of the audience and be able to steer customer and partner thinking and influence technology decisions at the highest level.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• A high, demonstrable level of written communication and numeracy skills.
• Has the highest degree of enthusiasm, energy, drive, self-motivation and flexibility, day in, day out.
• Self–starting and self-motivating, able to work under extremely high pressure, producing work of the highest quality against the tightest deadlines.
• Very strong security background with “hands on” experience of large security projects together with excellent understanding of IT / OT security including firewalling, application security, insider threat, malware analysis and social engineering, and the ability to articulate the associated challenges and approaches to audiences of all levels of experience and seniority.
• Has direct experience related to the formulation of information security strategy as part of an IS management structure.
• Multi–vendor security experience, including “next generation” approaches to security challenges such as social engineering and phishing attacks.
• Good infrastructure knowledge, including Active Directory, UNIX / Linux or VMWare, SAN and cloud services, particularly emerging cloud security approaches and CASB.
• Good understanding of typical business operations outside of information security.

About the company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology. Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas. We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.