About this role
Title: IOF Analyst-(Intelligent Oil Field)-Onsite
Job Description
Job Title: Intelligent Oil Field (IOF Analyst) Company: KBR Location: Basra Iraq Employment Type: Full-time, Contract
Rotation: 28/28
Required Nationals Any
About Company
"Belong, Connect, Grow, with KBR!
The KBR team delivers future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives, while also helping achieve their sustainability goals.
KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design and engineering capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets."
Purpose
• Assess, validate and define secure, DMZ-compliant methods to export OT/IoT data from air‑gapped/offline OT into the data lake for the digital twin and AI analytics.
Key responsibilities
• Conduct sensor inventory and offline validation; capture full metadata without disrupting live control systems.
• Define and test secure extraction workflows: edge gateway configs, buffering, uni-directional transfer (data diode), scheduled exports and file handoff procedures through the DMZ.
• Specify and validate edge gateway hardware/software and protocol bridging (Modbus, OPC‑UA wrappers, MQTT, etc.) compatible with DMZ policies.
• Validate timestamp integrity, sampling rhythm, units and completeness for delayed/batch transfers; design reconciliation and eventual-consistency checks.
• Produce secure integration specifications, data schemas, acceptance criteria, and handover packets for the data‑lake ingestion team.
• Troubleshoot field device connectivity and provide remediation plans that comply with OT change-control.
• Coordinate with operations to schedule permitted windows and ensure HSE/permit‑to‑work compliance.
• Train operations/maintenance on safe, repeatable DMZ handoff procedures.
Required qualifications
• Degree in Instrumentation, Control, Electrical, Computer Engineering or similar.
• 5+ years’ experience in oil & gas instrumentation, SCADA/DCS, or process control with experience under DMZ/air‑gapped constraints.
• Practical knowledge of industrial protocols (Modbus, OPC‑UA, MQTT) and secure OT‑to‑IT transfer patterns (data diodes, DMZ, jump kits).
• Experience coordinating with OT cybersecurity and network teams.
Preferred
• Experience with edge gateways, buffering strategies, and offline validation tools (simulators/test rigs).
• Certifications in ICS/OT cybersecurity or relevant standards.
KPIs
• % of sensors mapped and validated for DMZ‑compliant transfer.
• Data completeness/reconciliation error rates after batch transfers.
• Time to implement a secure transfer workflow per sensor/system.
Working conditions & safety
• Fieldwork in onshore facilities; strict adherence to HSE, permit‑to‑work, and OT change‑control procedures.
• No ad‑hoc connections to OT; all transfers must use approved DMZ mechanisms and encrypted media as required.