Introduction:

Information and Data are some of the most important organisational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client’s organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

About Business Unit

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organisations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• IBM X-Force IRIS (Incident Response and Intelligence Services) is growing.
• We are looking for talented people across Middle East to work in our flagship Incident Response and Proactive Services team.
• In IRIS, our mission is to offer assistance and advice to our clients whenever they have an incident.
• We help our clients identify, contain and control the threats and to enable them to return to business-as-usual as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• When not responding to incidents, we actively help our clients prepare themselves by providing a number of proactive services.
• These proactive services are our second mission: we enable our clients to reduce the likelihood of an incident and the need to call the IRIS team for assistance.
• Our services are ever growing, but include such things as first responder training, on-site table-top exercises (TTXs) and threat hunting operations.
• All of our team members are incident responders.
• We work both on-site and remotely to provide the IRIS services to our clients across Middle East.
• We work closely with our client as ‘trusted advisors’ during what are usually difficult and complex periods for them.

What do we do?

• PREPARE:
• Incident Response Planning
• Table Top Exercises
• First Responder Training
• Incident Response Playbook Design, Assessment & Review
• DETECT:
• Tactical Threat Monitoring
• Threat Hunting
• RESPOND:
• Incident Response Management
• Incident Response
• ANALYSE:
• Digital Forensics (Log, host, memory, network and traffic)
• Threat Intelligence

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• IT security and investigations.
• Practical experience of NIST SP 800-61 or similar methodologies.
• Working within teams of investigators on large scale, diverse and complex investigations.
• Contributing to IT Security projects.
• Broad understanding of IT Security to protect and monitor the enterprise.
• Ability to recognise and deal appropriately with potentially confidential and sensitive information.
• Awareness of relevant legislation and familiarity with working within EU and international legislative and regulatory frameworks.
• Analytical techniques, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in technical and non-technical writing and verbal communication.
• Effective time management, organisational and continual re-prioritisation skills.
• Ability to effectively collaborate and operate within a team as well as independently.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Microsoft Windows operating system internals including kernel, registry, file system, windows APIs and windows IPC mechanisms.
• The Linux operating system and associated file systems.
• Knowledge of common processor architectures such as x86,X64 and ARM.
• Network protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, and SMTP.
• Common web and email-based attack techniques. • Languages such as Yara, Python, PHP, Powershell, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, SQL, .NET or Java.
• IOC detection techniques including cryptographic checksums, IDS rule definitions, regular expressions and blacklisting.

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organisations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Your life @ IBM

Are you craving to learn more? Prepared to solve some of the world’s most unique challenges? And ready to shape the future for millions of people? If so, then it’s time to join us, express your individuality, unleash your curiosity and discover new possibilities.

Every IBMer, and potential ones like yourself, has a voice, carves their own path, and uses their expertise to help co-create and add to our story. Together, we have the power to make meaningful change – to alter the fabric of our clients, of society and IBM itself, to create a truly positive impact and make the world work better for everyone.

It’s time to define your career.

Country / Region: QA
State: AR RAYYAN
City: Doha
Category: Consultant
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Position Type: Entry Level
Employment Type: Full-Time
Contract Type: Fixed Term – Short Term
Company: IBM QATAR SSC
Travel Required: Up to 25% or 2 days a week (home on weekends- based on project requirements)

Do your best work ever.

Additional Requirements

• IT Security projects
• IBM X-Force IRIS
• NIST SP 800-61