Job Description

We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients' needs across their entire value chain. Whether we're defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector's brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.
You Are:
Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients' security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You're a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

Cyber Resilience professionals develop and deliver solutions for organizations to help them gain visibility to security events within their environment. Build new or develop existing event correlation, reporting and remediation capabilities based on advanced monitoring use cases, external threat intelligence, and known traffic patterns. Identity new or develop existing data integration points to build a security data warehouse for the purpose of exploratory analytics.
Our consultants assist clients with the identification and evaluation of holistic security gaps with a focus on the infrastructure and business applications layer. They also anticipate security requirements and identify sound security controls for applications, systems, processes and organizations
We are currently searching for consultants for our Security Technology practice with prior experience in the following areas: security operations center monitoring, compliance, and infrastructure security skills including SIEM, Network and Security Monitoring skills.
Key Responsibilities may include:

• Working knowledge of SIEM security technologies and market space as these tools will feed security events into a centralized SIEM tool for correlation and alerting purposes.
• Contribute to a strong client relationship through interactions with client personnel
• Understand engagement as it relates to client's business
• Demonstrate knowledge in some areas of industry or functional specialty
• Communicate client expectations to the engagement team
• Conduct SOC maturity assessments
• Ability to take a broad view of the position and take initiative to communicate, interact, and cooperate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed
• Ability to independently create written deliverables and to participate in presentations

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

• Analyzes and solves problems that are lower complexity and may be routine in nature, requiring varied responses depending on the situation.
• Interacts with peers within Accenture before updating supervisors.
• Likely has some interactions with non-management levels at the client and/or within Accenture.
• Receives minimal instruction on daily work tasks and a moderate level of instruction on new assignments.
• Decisions impact own work and may impact the work of others.
• Individual contributor and/or oversees a small work effort and/or team.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years' experience performing design, deployment, configuration and maintenance operations of SIEM tools including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel
• 3+ years experience of three of the following skills:

o 3+ years working on onboarding various new log sources in SIEM tools.
o 3+ years translating security requirements into use cases; mapping use cases into events and data elements; implementing use cases and validating that the threat detection rules support the requirements.
o 3+ years working with threat modeling framework such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain
o 3+ years working with Windows operating systems and command line tools, network protocols, TCP/IP fundamentals
o 3+ years working with network architecture and security infrastructure placement
o 3+years working with programming/scripting languages
o 3+years working with operational information security disciplines (e.g. incident response, security infrastructure management or monitoring services)
Preferred Skills:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree
• Industry recognized Professional Security certification (e.g. Splunk Enterprise Security Admin, Microsoft Security Operation Analyst, CISSP)
• Experience working for the Big 4 or Global SI is highly desired
• Knowledge of cyber defense vendors and product capabilities
• In possession of, or able to qualify for, Canadian security clearance strongly preferred

Professional Skill Requirements

• Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Demonstrated leadership, teamwork and collaboration in professional setting; either military or civilian

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired in British Columbia as set forth below.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia $61,800 to $159,000
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services--creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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