Job description

The Managing Consultant – Cyber Threat Management at IBM Consulting in Riyadh is a senior cybersecurity consulting role responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and improving cyber threat management and cyber defense capabilities for enterprise clients. The role supports IBM Cyber Threat Management’s holistic approach to security intelligence, operations, incident response, and regulatory compliance by combining robust methodologies, industry expertise, and market-leading technologies. The consultant works directly with clients to ensure security solutions align with business requirements, develops capabilities to identify, analyze, and respond to cyber attacks, violations, and abuse, and manages or leads day-to-day cyber defense operations where required. The role includes developing threat models, business-led use cases, correlation rules, incident management processes, and information workflows, while ensuring projects are delivered on time through effective project planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. The consultant engages in business development by building proposals, shaping business cases, opening new opportunities, and maintaining trusted senior-level client relationships. The position requires deep expertise in SIEM platforms such as PAN XSIAM, Splunk, and Microsoft Sentinel, SOC design and operations, threat intelligence and hunting, security assessments using tools like NMAP, Nessus, Metasploit, and Netcat, and governance models spanning people, processes, and technology. The role operates within IBM Consulting’s global professional services environment, collaborating with diverse global teams and supporting client transformation initiatives across security operations and cyber resilience.