Consultant/Senior Consultant – Cyber Defense & Technology Resilience

About the role

Deloitte is seeking a Consultant or Senior Consultant to strengthen our Cyber Defense & Technology Resilience practice across Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. You will work with enterprise clients to design, assess and improve their technology continuity, backup, and recovery capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct Technology Impact Analyses to identify critical IT dependencies.
• Design and validate recovery architectures, backup strategies and failover designs.
• Lead or participate in Disaster Recovery (DR) drills and tabletop exercises.
• Develop, execute and maintain runbooks for data‑centre, hybrid/cloud and application resilience.
• Translate technical risks into business impact statements for senior stakeholders.
• Support the creation of resilience roadmaps, strategies and implementation plans.

Required profile

• Strong understanding of technology resilience concepts (IT continuity, backup, failover).
• Hands‑on experience with DR drills and runbook management.
• Ability to evaluate data‑centre, hybrid/cloud infrastructure and application landscapes.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations in financial services, energy or government sectors.
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical findings to non‑technical audiences.

Required skills

• Recovery architecture design
• IT continuity planning
• Backup and failover strategy development
• Technology Impact Analysis (TIA)
• Disaster Recovery drill execution
• Runbook creation and maintenance
• Hybrid/cloud infrastructure assessment
• AWS, Azure, GCP cloud platforms
• Immutable backups and DR‑as‑a‑Service solutions
• Frameworks: ISO 22301, DORA, NIST, COBIT