
Petro Rabigh
ICS Cyber Security Engineer
- Permanent
- Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
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Job expiry date: 05/09/2025
Job overview
Date posted
22/07/2025
Location
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
05/09/2025
Job description
Petro Rabigh is hiring an ICS Cyber Security Engineer to ensure robust cybersecurity controls across its industrial control systems. The role encompasses deploying and maintaining network and security infrastructure, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity frameworks, conducting vulnerability assessments, managing access provisioning, and participating in incident response. The position requires deep expertise in ICS/OT environments, including familiarity with protocols like ModBus, OPC, and Yokogawa VNet IP. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert in ICS cybersecurity, lead technical investigations, and support plant reliability and operational safety. Certifications such as CSSA, GIAC, ISA/IEC 62443, and networking credentials like CCNA/CCNP are highly preferred.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain network infrastructure devices, security appliances, and virtualization solutions
- Review network and security product configurations
- Review security policies and develop operational instruction manuals
- Manage hardware and software security lifecycle
- Create detailed diagrams, procedures, and implementation plans to support projects
- Take inventory of plant hardware and software assets and assess them for risks
- Review network architectures for best practices and provide compliance recommendations
- Participate in the change management process
- Provision and de-provision OT systems access
- Enable appropriate security controls to protect data and infrastructure
- Troubleshoot ICS/OT security and network problems
- Review security controls and recommend mitigations
- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity controls and regulations
- Participate in ICS projects to implement cyber security requirements
- Provide technical direction as a cybersecurity subject matter expert
- Identify and support deployment of cybersecurity patches for ICS/OT systems
- Perform daily administration, reporting, and departmental communications
- Employ secure configuration management processes
- Define system security context and baseline requirements
- Understand and work with OT protocols including Yokogawa VNet IP, ModBus, and OPC
- Participate in ICS security incident response and investigations
- Use cyber defense tools for continuous system activity monitoring
- Test and identify network and system vulnerabilities
- Perform vulnerability/penetration testing and threat hunting in ICS/OT environments
- Coordinate with threat intelligence analysts for data correlation
- Provide periodic reporting on information security issues
- Lead or resolve technical issues in areas of specialty to ensure plant reliability
- Participate in multi-disciplinary teams to address disruptions or improvements
- Write and publish cybersecurity event reviews for knowledge sharing
Experience & skills
- Bachelor Degree in IT, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
- Certified SCADA Security Architect (CSSA)
- GIAC certifications (e.g., GICSP, GRID, Critical Infrastructure Protection)
- ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Certificates
- Networking certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, JNCIP-ENT
- Knowledge of network components and security controls
- Understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and management
- Familiarity with cybersecurity legislative and regulatory ethics and privacy standards