Cyber Defense Consultant - SME
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Accenture is seeking a Cyber Defense Consultant - SME to design and maintain enterprise security architecture, define security standards, and ensure secure-by-design implementation.
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Responsibilities
- Design and maintain enterprise security architecture aligned with business, technology, and compliance requirements
- Define security standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for cloud, network, applications, identity, data, and infrastructure
- Review solution designs and ensure security requirements are embedded from the early design stage
- Conduct security architecture assessments for new systems, platforms, integrations, and transformation programs
- Identify security risks, recommend controls, and support risk treatment plans
- Work with infrastructure, cloud, application, network, IAM, SOC, GRC, and OT teams to ensure secure by design implementation
- Translate business and technical requirements into practical security controls
- Support implementation of Zero Trust, defense in depth, segmentation, least privilege, secure access, and secure monitoring models
- Define security requirements for third party integrations, APIs, remote access, cloud workloads, and critical systems
- Support security governance by reviewing exceptions, deviations, and architecture waivers
- Provide technical guidance to project teams during design, build, testing, and deployment phases
- Ensure solutions comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and relevant standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, IEC 62443
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience
- Experience with Operational Technology environments including industrial control systems, SCADA, PLCs, HMIs, engineering workstations, historians, and industrial networks
- Understanding of OT network architecture, Purdue Model, industrial zones and conduits, and IT/OT segmentation
- Experience designing secure remote access solutions for OT vendors, engineers, and support teams
- Knowledge of OT security standards and frameworks, especially IEC 62443, NIST SP 800 82
- Ability to assess OT risks while considering safety, availability, production continuity, and operational constraints
- Experience with OT asset discovery, visibility tools, network monitoring, and passive detection technologies
- Familiarity with industrial protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, OPC, Profinet, EtherNet/IP, BACnet, or similar
- Experience supporting OT vulnerability management, compensating controls, and risk based remediation
- Ability to design secure OT network segmentation, firewall rules, jump servers, DMZ architecture, and controlled data flows between IT and OT
- Knowledge of secure backup, disaster recovery, patching constraints, and lifecycle management for OT systems
- Experience working with plant operations, engineering teams, automation vendors, SOC, and cybersecurity teams
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Responsibilities
- Design and maintain enterprise security architecture aligned with business, technology, and compliance requirements.
- Define security standards, reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for cloud, network, applications, identity, data, and infrastructure.
- Review solution designs and ensure security requirements are embedded from the early design stage.
- Conduct security architecture assessments for new systems, platforms, integrations, and transformation programs.
- Identify security risks, recommend controls, and support risk treatment plans.
- Work with infrastructure, cloud, application, network, IAM, SOC, GRC, and OT teams to ensure secure by design implementation.
- Translate business and technical requirements into practical security controls.
- Support implementation of Zero Trust, defense in depth, segmentation, least privilege, secure access, and secure monitoring models.
- Define security requirements for third party integrations, APIs, remote access, cloud workloads, and critical systems.
- Support security governance by reviewing exceptions, deviations, and architecture waivers.
- Provide technical guidance to project teams during design, build, testing, and deployment phases.
- Ensure solutions comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and relevant standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, IEC 62443, and other applicable frameworks.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience
- Experience with Operational Technology environments, including industrial control systems, SCADA, PLCs, HMIs, engineering workstations, historians, and industrial networks.
- Understanding of OT network architecture, Purdue Model, industrial zones and conduits, and IT/OT segmentation.
- Experience designing secure remote access solutions for OT vendors, engineers, and support teams.
- Knowledge of OT security standards and frameworks, especially IEC 62443, NIST SP 800 82, and relevant critical infrastructure security practices.
- Ability to assess OT risks while considering safety, availability, production continuity, and operational constraints.
- Experience with OT asset discovery, visibility tools, network monitoring, and passive detection technologies.
- Familiarity with industrial protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, OPC, Profinet, EtherNet/IP, BACnet, or similar.
- Experience supporting OT vulnerability management, compensating controls, and risk based remediation.
- Ability to design secure OT network segmentation, firewall rules, jump servers, DMZ architecture, and controlled data flows between IT and OT.
- Knowledge of secure backup, disaster recovery, patching constraints, and lifecycle management for OT systems.
- Experience working with plant operations, engineering teams, automation vendors, SOC, and cybersecurity teams.
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