IBM
Senior Managing Consultant – Cyber Threat Management Consultant
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 02/06/2026
Job overview
Date posted
18/04/2026
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
The Senior Managing Consultant – Cyber Threat Management Consultant at IBM Consulting in Riyadh is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and improvement of cyber threat management and security operations capabilities for large enterprise clients, ensuring alignment with cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience requirements. The role operates within IBM Cyber Threat Management, which delivers holistic security operations and cyber defense solutions combining security intelligence, advanced methodologies, and market-leading technologies. The consultant works directly with clients to implement and enhance cybersecurity solutions, develop threat detection and response capabilities, and ensure effective identification, analysis, and mitigation of cyber attacks, violations, and abuse within enterprise environments. The role includes leading or managing Security Operations Center (SOC) functions, including processes, governance, technology integration, and operational workflows. It requires designing security architectures, building threat models, developing use cases, correlation rules, and response runbooks, and ensuring integration across SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Palo Alto XSIAM. The position involves managing client relationships, developing business cases, supporting proposals, driving client engagements, and ensuring delivery of complex cybersecurity transformation programs. The consultant also leads workshops, training sessions, and client-facing events while managing engagement risks, project plans, and deliverable quality. Additionally, the role supports SOC capability development including threat intelligence and threat hunting programs, incident management frameworks, and security monitoring operations. The position requires close collaboration with executive stakeholders, global IBM teams, and client leadership to ensure alignment of cybersecurity strategies with business objectives while driving continuous improvement in security posture and operational efficiency.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day interactions with client business groups, executive leadership, and key stakeholders to ensure alignment of cybersecurity objectives and delivery outcomes.
- Lead or manage Security Operations Center (SOC) operations including incident detection, analysis, response workflows, and operational governance for enterprise clients.
- Develop and implement cybersecurity solution processes, procedures, information workflows, threat models, use cases, correlation rules, and security response runbooks.
- Establish and manage project plans, engagement schedules, deliverables, and execution tracking to ensure timely completion of cybersecurity transformation initiatives.
- Communicate project progress, risks, challenges, and delivery status regularly to clients and IBM leadership while ensuring transparent engagement management.
- Manage engagement risk, define deliverable content, and ensure quality assurance of cybersecurity solutions and operational implementations.
- Support business development activities including building proposals, developing business cases, engaging in client pursuits, and identifying new opportunities within client environments.
- Lead workshops, training sessions, and facilitated client events to support cybersecurity capability development, SOC maturity, and knowledge transfer initiatives.
Experience & skills
- Apply 12+ years of experience in information security including SOC operations, incident management, intrusion detection, firewall deployment, compliance, and security event analysis.
- Demonstrate at least 5+ years of experience managing client relationships, delivering presentations, and building cybersecurity proposals and business cases.
- Exhibit at least 6+ years of experience leading Security Operations Center (SOC) teams in resolving complex cybersecurity and operational security challenges.
- Possess strong expertise in designing and implementing SOC environments including processes, governance models, technologies, and operational frameworks.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience in threat modeling, security use case development, and creation of security response runbooks.
- Exhibit experience in developing threat intelligence and threat hunting capabilities within enterprise cybersecurity environments.
- Demonstrate proficiency in SIEM platforms including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Palo Alto XSIAM, along with security monitoring tools and frameworks.
- Possess cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, SANS GCIA, GMON, and cloud certifications such as AWS (preferred), along with strong English communication skills.