Assistant Manager - Cyber Defense & Response
KPMG
- Abu Dhabi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Advising on technical aspects of cyber defense/response
- Helping them optimize their approach to technical cyber defense controls
- Manage projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards
- Assisting with business development activities
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs, and providing strategic solutions to meet their objectives
- Deliver high-quality technical work related to cyber defense and response (technical security assessments, penetration testing, threat hunting, incident response, etc.)
- Review and improve the technical work that is being delivered
- Supervise junior staff, providing guidance, training, and support to help them develop their skills and achieve project goals
- Monitor project financials, prepare budgets, track expenses, and ensure profitability targets are met.
- Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company risk management policies
- Support senior management in identifying new business opportunities
- Prepare proposals and participate in client presentations
- Ensure deliverables meet quality standards, review work papers, and provide feedback to team members to drive continuous improvement
- Upholding KPMG's values by acting with integrity
- Proven experience in delivering one or more of the following areas: technical security assessments, penetration testing, red/purple teaming, security monitoring, and security operations, compromise assessments, threat intelligence, and threat hunting, incident response, etc. (essential)
- Track record showing understanding of the business, threat and regulatory issues faced by clients
- Proven ability to analyze problems, identify core issues and recommend appropriate technical solutions
- Proven experience in successfully delivering complex cyber security services preferably in professional consultancy service provider, ensuring the delivery of high-quality work on time and to budget
- Proven ability to work at sustained levels of high intensity, and inspire drive and resilience in others
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), and project management skills
- Ability to interact with organizations at different seniority levels
- Strong networking skills and a broad professional network, both inside and outside of KPMG
- Have played a key role in delivering technical cybersecurity engagements related to cyber defense and response
- Bachelor or master's degree (preferably computer engineering or cyber security)
- English-speaking (and writing)
- Leader and team player
- At least 5+ years of experience in a similar role
- Recognized cyber security qualifications (e.g., CISSP, OSCP, GIAC, CEH, GPEN etc.), or comparable experience
- Proactive and autonomous
- Trained and proven skills with regard to security operating centers, security monitoring and analytics, security and penetration testing, ethical hacking (red and purple teaming), security architecture, DevSecOps, incident response, threat intelligence and threat hunting.