Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

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Company Profile
BHIG—Blue Hydrogen Industrial Gases is a regional development and investment joint venture (JV) between Saudi Aramco and Air Products Qudra “APQ”. Our company benefits from the combined strengths of two leading entities. BHIG is positioned to drive industrial innovation and operational excellence across Saudi Arabia and the region. BHIG focuses on supporting clean energy goals through low-carbon hydrogen production.

Purpose

The Sr. Cybersecurity Specialist works as first line of defense for the critical information and assets for the organization.

•  Safeguard the critical infrastructure thorough implementing cybersecurity technologies.

•  Implementing the cybersecurity requirements mandated by SAIS; Supreme Authority of Industrial Security, National Cybersecurity Authority, High Commission for Industrial Security, and Saudi Aramco applicable standards SAEP-99, 100.

•  Operational technology and cybersecurity defense

Nature & Scope

The Sr. Cybersecurity Specialist is responsible to safeguard the critical infrastructure throughout planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining various cybersecurity solutions aim to protect the organization’s information and assets from all potential cyber threats.

What to include:

       •           Cybersecurity Manager

       •           Working cooperatively in plant operational environment with safety, process control engineers, operations, maintenance and other relevant areas.

The cybersecurity team consists of GRC and Operations "Engineering" carrying out below activities but not limited to:

• Asset Management
• Access Management
• Network management
• Hardening and patching management
• Endpoint Protection
• Backup and disaster recovery
• Threat hunting
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Penetration Testing
• Physical Security
• Cybersecurity Drills and tabletop exercise
• SIEM Management

Principal Accountabilities:

• Expert in working with various Operational Technology/Industrial Control Systems.
• Have strong hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining cybersecurity solutions including network architectural understanding and improvement.
• Expert with cybersecurity tools such as active directory, firewalls, SIEMs, VPNs, IDS/IPS, endpoint protection, vulnerability assessment, patch management, backup and recovery.
• Skilled to lead on-site projects related to industrial control systems compliance to applicable regulations.
• Good level of knowledge of national and international cybersecurity standards, polices, and procedures
• Expert in vulnerability assessment, patching management, and system hardening.
• Knowledgeable in designing systems architecture and network diagrams while meeting the cybersecurity regulations requirements.
• Skilled to lead cybersecurity drills and tabletop exercise, incident response, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to identify and remediate any system errors.
• Proactive healthiness checks for detective, preventive, and remediation countermeasures.

Minimum Requirements and Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science or relevant fields

- 6+ years in OT/ICS cybersecurity industry.

- Cybersecurity professional certificates, preferably:

- CompTIA Network+

- CompTIA Security+

- CISCO CCNA

- EC-Council Certified Incident Handler

- Saudi national will be given preference

- Very good English language skills in written and verbal communications

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Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.