Job Description
About the Company
Petroleum Development Oman is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman. The Company delivers the majority of the country's crude oil production and natural gas supply
Purpose of the Job
To be able to Specify, implement and assess performance of process automation systems (network architecture and control system). The focus is on Process Automation System as it is the larger and more commonly used control system.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor degree in Control & Automation or equivalent with a minimum of 4 years knowledge based on Oil & Gas/Chemical Industry experience with wide exposures to the main aspects of Control.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the Oil/Gas process & systems, relevant E&P operations, HSE requirements, Oil/Gas process & systems procedures and practices.
- Process Control Cyber Security (PCD) systems, network and application security experience
- Strong understanding of the Microsoft Windows products
- Experienced in management of change processes for production operations.
- Familiar with the IT security incident management, escalation and after action review methodology.
- Hand-on experience of ICS technical controls (endpoint protection (AWL), Backup & recovery, Automated asset inventory, active directory design, network segmentation, network anomaly and threat detection solution, secure remote access)
Main Responsibilities
- Diagnose and resolve significant complex and non-routine problems related to DCS, control systems architecture and/or other process automation systems
- Responsible in day-to-day run and maintain activities, including anti-virus software, system patching, back-up and restore, asset inventory management and intrusion detection monitoring.
- Responsible for security operation, real-time monitoring of security logs generated in the Process control domain for any incidents, security breaches or other unauthorized activities.
- Developing of Real time security and Operation Technology (OT) health monitoring dashboard.
- Modify and troubleshoot standard (vs. complex) control system architectures that include field measurement, distributed control system, safety system, third party integration, advanced process control, real time optimization, process control domain security infrastructure, data historian and integration with business applications
- Coordinate with Incident response team for strategizing a quick closer of incident in the event of occurrences.
- Ensures compliance with the organizations information risk policy and Health, Safety and Environment guidelines.
- Ensuring that changes to the process control systems are handled in accordance with formal procedures for change management, permit to work and planning systems
- Ensuring that registers containing information on Process Control Cyber Security (PCD) equipment and applications in the process domain are maintained.
Skills Required
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