
IBM
Security Consultant - Cloud Security Services (OT Cybersecurity)
- Permanent
- Doha, Qatar
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 13/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
27/01/2026
Location
Doha, Qatar
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
The Security Consultant â Cloud Security Services (OT Cybersecurity) role is a senior consulting position within IBM Consultingâs MEA Cybersecurity practice, based in Doha, Qatar. The role focuses on leading and expanding the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity practice across the Middle East and Africa region while working closely with highly skilled cybersecurity professionals. The consultant acts as a primary interface with clients, engaging at technical, operational, and executive levels, including C-suite stakeholders, to understand core business objectives, operational imperatives, and complex OT environments. The role requires deep expertise in OT/ICS security across sectors such as Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Transportation. Responsibilities include defining and delivering future-state OT security architectures, advising on strategic OT security roadmaps, and establishing IBM as a trusted security advisor. The role encompasses designing and implementing OT security solutions across on-premise, air-gapped, segmented, and cloud-connected environments, addressing IT/OT convergence, IIoT, and digital transformation initiatives. The consultant applies extensive knowledge of OT security standards such as KSA NCA ECC for OT, ISA/IEC 62443, and NIST CSF, along with advanced understanding of industrial platforms, protocols, and vulnerabilities. The position also involves building a strong pipeline of opportunities to expand IBMâs regional presence, delivering large-scale and multi-year OT security transformation programs, producing high-quality technical documentation, and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams. The role requires extensive travel to support client engagements and hybrid or multi-cloud security projects, with fluency in English and Arabic considered a strong advantage.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead the MEA OT Cybersecurity practice and expand IBM presence across existing and new client accounts
- Act as the primary client interface to understand business objectives, operational imperatives, and OT environments
- Advise clients on defining future-state OT security landscapes and develop strategic OT security roadmaps
- Architect and deliver robust OT cybersecurity solutions using industry frameworks and operational technologies
- Build and manage a pipeline of OT cybersecurity consulting opportunities across the region
- Conduct comprehensive OT security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, and OT-safe penetration testing
- Design and implement OT security architectures including network segmentation, zones and conduits, and micro-segmentation
- Deliver and integrate OT security technologies such as industrial firewalls, NGFWs, OT IDS/IPS, NSM, SIEM, and SOAR
- Implement secure remote access, privileged access management, EDR, application whitelisting, and vulnerability management for OT
- Support security of Industrial IoT platforms and devices across cloud-connected and hybrid environments
- Develop detailed OT security documentation including network diagrams, data flow diagrams, policies, and procedures
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex, large-scale OT security transformation programs
- Engage with executive stakeholders to articulate value propositions and security outcomes at C-suite level
Experience & skills
- Bachelorâs or Masterâs degree in Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
- At least 10â12 years of overall cybersecurity experience with clear progression into OT security leadership
- Minimum of 8 years of dedicated experience in OT security consulting, architecture, and implementation roles
- At least 5 years of experience in international deployment roles delivering hybrid or multi-cloud OT security engagements
- Demonstrated expertise in OT security standards including KSA NCA ECC for OT, ISA/IEC 62443, and NIST CSF
- In-depth knowledge of ICS, SCADA, DCS, PLC, and SIS platforms and industrial protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, OPC UA/DA, IEC 61850, BACnet, and HART
- Proven track record delivering large-scale, complex, and multi-year OT security transformation programs
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively up to 40â70% based on project requirements
- Fluent English communication skills with Arabic proficiency considered a significant advantage