Senior Cybersecurity Operational Technology Specialist

The job holder is responsible for ensuring the development cybersecurity operational technology activities by monitoring, testing, identifying and dealing with cybersecurity assets threats and incidents to protect WTCO from any cyber-attacks or threats.

Key Functional Accountabilities:

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, practices, cost optimization, and productivity & efficiency improvement.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards within WTCO and related functions such as but not limited to (HC, HSSE, Risk, Cybersecurity, etc..).
• Escalate problems to ensure case/issue is closed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Ensure assessing and developing the effectiveness of WTCO's' cybersecurity operational technology enhancement capabilities
• Ensure identifying technical vulnerabilities that may lead to a cyber breach based on the simulated cyber-attack results on assets, and the remediation of vulnerabilities on running systems, networks and applications.
• Ensure developing assets penetration tests and vulnerability assessments of systems and networks on a periodic basis to validate WTCO’s resilience and identify weak areas and provide recommendations on actions to be taken.
• Ensure protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of WTCO's assets data and information, in line with WTCO's policies & procedures, and the relevant regulations and legislation.
• Ensure protecting the information and technical of the assets from third-party and cloud computing by applying cybersecurity operational technology requirements of cloud computing and hosting.
• Ensure applying cybersecurity operational technology incident response program as a plan of action that is developed based on anticipated risks and thorough post event analysis
• Ensure developing the identification and detection of cybersecurity operational technology events and threats in a timely manner and deal with them effectively to prevent or reduce the negative impacts on WTCO's operations.
• Ensure developing, collecting, analyzing and monitoring cybersecurity operational technology events to detect cyber-attacks early, with the aim of preventing or minimizing their negative impacts on WTCO’s operations.
• Perform all day-to-day cybersecurity operational technology on WTCO's systems and ensure that they are properly performing in accordance with WTCO's standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Ensure implementing cybersecurity operational technology vendor assessment across WTCO and projects.
• Ensure implementing cybersecurity operational technology requirements and ensure that relevant regulations and legislation are adhered to

Education and

Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a relevant field.