Security Managed Services Associate Manager

Key Responsibilities • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) engagements across network, application, endpoint, cloud, and hybrid environments. • Execute and support advanced red team operations, adversary emulation exercises, and threat simulations to assess the effectiveness of security controls, detection capabilities, and incident response processes. • Partner with client stakeholders and internal teams to define engagement scope, objectives, rules of engagement, and risk priorities. • Identify, validate, and exploit security vulnerabilities using industry-standard methodologies, frameworks, and tools while maintaining high standards of professionalism and ethical conduct. • Analyze threat intelligence, emerging attack techniques, and adversary tactics aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to enhance the effectiveness and relevance of security assessments. • Develop clear, accurate, and executive-ready reports that communicate technical findings, business risks, and prioritized remediation actions. • Mentor junior security practitioners by providing technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and support in offensive security techniques, tooling, and reporting practices. • Contribute to the continuous improvement of VAPT methodologies, red team playbooks, automation capabilities, and service delivery standards to drive operational excellence and client value. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline. • Proven experience performing penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and offensive security engagements across enterprise environments. • Strong hands-on experience with application security testing, network penetration testing, cloud security assessments, and exploitation techniques. • Deep understanding of modern attack methodologies, adversary tactics, and security frameworks, including MITRE ATT&CK and OWASP. • Experience creating technical assessment reports and presenting findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and contribute to key security decisions and strategic initiatives. Preferred Qualifications • Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO, CREST, GPEN, GWAPT, GXPN, CISSP, or equivalent. • Experience conducting red team operations, purple team exercises, and threat-led security assessments. • Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Experience with security automation, scripting, and offensive security tooling. • Familiarity with Security Operations Center (SOC) processes, threat hunting, and detection engineering. 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. Visit us at Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.