The company is seeking a Consultant/Senior Consultant in Cyber Defense & Resilience, focusing on Technology Resilience in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing technology resilience concepts within the organization.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Strong understanding of technology resilience concepts, including recovery architecture, IT continuity, backup strategies, and failover design.
- Conduct Technology Impact Analysis (TIA) or similar assessments to evaluate critical IT dependencies.
- Actively participate in or run Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.
- Develop, execute, and maintain runbooks.
- Assess data centres, hybrid/cloud infrastructure, and application landscapes through a resilience lens.
- Translate technical risks into business impact terms and effectively communicate recommendations to non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development of resilience strategies, roadmaps, or implementation plans for enterprise clients.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations around technology resilience, particularly in sectors like financial services, energy, or government.
Desired Qualifications:
- Familiarity with business continuity, crisis management, or operational resilience frameworks beyond IT.
- Experience in supporting or conducting tabletop exercises, technical simulations, or chaos engineering experiments.
- Knowledge of cloud resilience architectures (e.g., multi-AZ/multi-region failover, backup/restore in AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Understanding of cyber-resilience intersections, including ransomware preparedness, zero-trust recovery, or secure-by-design principles.
- Exposure to modern resilience solutions such as immutable backups, cyber vaults, DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS), or cloud-native recovery approaches.
- Experience in resilience posture assessments and advising on improvements using industry-aligned frameworks (e.g., ISO 22301, DORA, NIST, COBIT).
- Exposure to emerging technology risks like AI model resilience and edge computing.
- Professional certifications such as ISO 22301 Lead Auditor/Implementer, CBCI, AWS/Azure cloud certifications, or DORA/operational resilience credentials can be an added advantage.
Work Conditions:
- Full-time position with an on-site requirement.
Language Requirements: Not specified.
