Security Managed Services Analyst

Title: Security Managed Services Analyst

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

About Accenture   

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com. 

Accenture Technology 

We provide innovative services that span Cloud; systems integration and application management; security; intelligent platform services; infrastructure services; software engineering services; data and artificial intelligence. We also deliver it at speed and at scale through our Advanced Technology Centres. 

We continuously innovate our services, capabilities and platforms through early adoption of new technologies such as blockchain, robotics, 5G, quantum computing and edge computing.  

Roles & Responsibility:  

• Initial investigation and triage of potential incidents, escalate or close events as applicable.  

• Monitor SOC ticket queue (email/phone) for events reported by outside entities and individual users. 

• Review latest security alerts and take actions based on defined remediation processes. 

• Create incidents based on process/alerts. 

• Support incident remediation/investigation efforts. 

• Update documentation of Knowledge Base (“KB”) articles or runbooks. 

• 1-2 years of experience in Security Monitoring and Response 

• IT Security certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, GCIA, GREM, CEH, GCFA, CISSP, etc. 

• Experience with SIEM, EDR and intrusion detection solutions.  

• Incident and Problem Management skills  

• Experience with sandbox solution. 

• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security.  

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure (Amazon, Azure, Google) 

• Security analysis skills (logfile analysis and analysis of mixed data sources/types) 

• Basic skills in forensic and threat hunting. 

• Ability to manipulate and present data 

• Fundamental understanding of network protocols & architecture 

• Strong problem-solving skills 

• Strong willingness to learn and grow within the role