Digital Security - Senior Managing Consultant
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About the Role
IBM seeks a Senior Managing Consultant for Digital Security in Riyadh, KSA. You will lead cloud security and IAM transformations for clients, leveraging expertise in hybrid/multi-cloud environments and major hyperscalers.
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Responsibilities
- Assess and develop customer relationships, security design and implementation of digital security services for clients in KSA
- Demonstrate thought leadership and delivery expertise in cloud native and hybrid/third party security controls
- Assist IBM clients with transformation in Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and securing cloud workloads
- Engage with clients at early stage to understand their cybersecurity business needs and apply industry knowledge
- Advise clients on desired future IAM landscape in hybrid cloud model and develop roadmap
- Manage all activities related to delivering a digital security solution for the duration of the engagement
- Facilitate workshops, give presentations, produce high quality deliverables, and manage large delivery engagements
- Support definition and creation of solutions meeting client requirements
- Understand client's digital security posture including drivers, risk, legal, regulatory, and compliance drivers
- Provide visibility and understanding of functional and non functional requirements of the solution
- Assist client facing colleagues with responding to requests for proposals
- Work with global and local teams to organize project approaches and teams for client delivery
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Cloud Certification in at least one hyperscaler (security specialist preferred)
- One leading security certificate like CISA, CISSP, or CISM
- Working experience of industry compliance and security standards including KSA NCA ECC, CSA CSM, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS
- Working experience in conducting security architecture and configuration reviews leveraging Zero Trust Security principles
- Extensive knowledge in security solutions such as IAM, Data Protection and Cloud Security Solutions
- Working experience on cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and infrastructure technology
- Background knowledge of KSA NCA ECC and other cloud related regulations (e.g., ISO/IEC 27018)
- Extensive track record in delivering large scale, complex, multi year security transformation programs
- Experience working across diverse teams to facilitate solutions
- Readiness to travel 25 50%
- At least 5 years' experience in international deployment roles and client interlock on hybrid/multi cloud security engagements
Full Job Posting
Introduction
- The Digital Security Senior Managing Consultant will be responsible for assessing and developing customer relationship, security design and implementation of digital security services for our clients in KSA.
- This role focuses on assisting IBM clients with transformation in Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and in securing cloud workloads across private, public, hybrid and/or multi cloud environments on major hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- You will engage with clients at early stage, understand their business needs from Cybersecurity perspective, and become a trusted advisor.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing all activities related to delivering a digital security solution for the duration of the engagement.
- Consulting: facilitate workshops, give presentations, produce high quality deliverables, manage large delivery engagements.
- Leadership: support all aspects of the solution, consulting colleagues, technical team, managing client requirements.
- Create and deliver the solution element of Cloud & Data Security and IAM proposals.
- Support definition and creation of a solution that meets client requirements.
- Understand the Digital Security Posture of the client, including drivers, risk, legal, regulatory and compliance drivers.
- Provide visibility and understanding of functional and non functional requirements of the solution.
- Assist client facing colleagues with responding to requests for proposals.
- Detailed knowledge of architecting and delivery of cloud native delivery methods and blueprints, security and deployment models for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across one or more hyperscalers.
- Delivery should centre around adopting agile approach, leveraging automation across infrastructure security via IaC.
- Work with global and local teams to organize project approaches and teams for client delivery.
- Help resolve program issues as they arise with senior leadership.
Practice & People
- Contribute content and advice to the offering development process.
- Help establish capability and skills models for the core domain, partner with wider team to develop expertise.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Cloud Certification in at least one hyperscaler, security specialist certifications preferred.
- One leading security certificate like CISA, CISSP, CISM, etc.
- Working experience of industry compliance and security standards including KSA NCA ECC, CSA CSM, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, etc.
- Working experience in conducting security architecture and configuration reviews leveraging Zero Trust Security principles.
- Extensive knowledge in security solutions such as IAM, Data Protection and Cloud Security Solutions.
- Develop high quality security projects design documentation.
- Working experience on cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), infrastructure and technology.
- Background knowledge to KSA NCA ECC and other regulations and standards related to the cloud (e.g., ISO/IEC 27018).
- Extensive track record in delivering large scale, complex and multi year security transformation programs / projects.
- Experience working across diverse teams to facilitate solutions.
- Readiness to travel 25 50%.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Hiring manager and Recruiter should collaborate to create the relevant verbiage.
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