Senior OT Incident Response Lead & Threat Hunter

eFinancialCareers Ltd.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced OT Incident Response Lead in Riyadh to act as the senior technical authority for advanced threat hunting, DFIR, and incident response in OT/ICS environments. You will design and improve OT detection content, mentor junior analysts, and coordinate response to high-severity incidents, while ensuring safety and regulatory alignment.

You will translate OT threat intelligence into detections, drive tabletop exercises, and report to executives with root-cause and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer/Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering or related field.
• 6-10+ years in cybersecurity, with at least 4 years OT/ICS security operations, DFIR or threat hunting.
• Deep expertise in OT protocols and IC architectures (DCS, SCADA, PLC, SIS).
• Proven experience leading OT/ICS incident response and forensic investigations.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigation and response for complex, high severity OT/ICS incidents.
• Perform proactive threat hunting across OT networks and assets.
• Conduct OT DFIR forensic acquisition and analysis with safety and evidence integrity.
• Design, build and tune detection content; own detection engineering lifecycle for OT SOC.

Skills

OT/ICS security

Threat hunting

DFIR

Incident response

SIEM detection engineering

Team leadership

Forensic analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Nozomi

Claroty

Dragos

Tenable OT

Defender for IoT

Splunk

QRadar

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced OT Incident Response Lead in Riyadh to act as the senior technical authority for advanced threat hunting, DFIR, and incident response in OT/ICS environments. You will design and improve OT detection content, mentor junior analysts, and coordinate response to high-severity incidents, while ensuring safety and regulatory alignment.

You will translate OT threat intelligence into detections, drive tabletop exercises, and report to executives with root-cause and