Cybersecurity & Operational Technology Specialist

Role Overview

Senior Cybersecurity & Operational Technology Specialist at Partner One Capital, supporting customers in Qatar and the broader region. This role requires onsite presence in Qatar and the ability to travel regionally and internationally to deliver cybersecurity consulting, incident response, and technical advisory services.

Company Overview

NetWitness provides advanced threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities that help organizations detect sophisticated threats, investigate incidents, and protect critical IT and OT environments.

Role Purpose

Support customers across IT and OT environments by delivering comprehensive cybersecurity assessments, incident response, forensic investigations, and technical consulting. Act as a senior technical advisor to the sales team, helping customers understand NetWitness technologies, define requirements, and develop secure architectural solutions aligned with industry frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Sales Support & Customer Engagement

• Partner with local sales teams to develop technical solutions, proposals, and customer engagement plans.
• Support the sales team as a senior technical advisor, helping customers understand NetWitness technologies and services.
• Define requirements, scope engagements, and develop technical solutions and proposals for customers.

Cybersecurity Assessments & Architecture

• Lead comprehensive reviews of customer cybersecurity posture across IT and OT environments.
• Evaluate customer environments to identify vulnerabilities, security gaps, and opportunities to improve cyber resilience.
• Translate assessment findings into actionable improvement plans, helping customers mature their security defenses.
• Design and implement secure OT network architectures using segmentation, zero-trust principles, and industry recognized models such as the Purdue Model.
• Conduct detailed cybersecurity assessments and threat modeling on physical industrial control systems (ICS), SCADA, and other OT environments.
• Assist with aligning environments with recognized cybersecurity frameworks, including IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82.

Risk Assessment & Compliance

• Develop and maintain OT risk assessments and translate technical findings into actionable risk priorities for customers' executive stakeholders.

Incident Response & Investigations

• Develop and execute specialized OT incident response playbooks that prioritize process safety and plant availability.
• Lead incident response engagements, including triage, malware analysis, threat hunting, and root cause determination.
• Conduct digital forensics investigations on endpoints, networks, memory, OT, and cloud environments using industry standard tools.
• Develop forensic reports, timelines, and executive summaries for customers and stakeholders.
• Develop or customize tools and scripts to improve investigation process.

Proactive Services & Consulting

• Deliver proactive services including compromise assessments, gap analysis, threat hunting, incident readiness reviews, and customer training.
• Deliver cybersecurity consulting services both remotely and in-person.

Collaboration & Mentoring

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate threats and recommend remediation strategies.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to team knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Customer Support & Travel

• Provide onsite support to customers in Qatar on short notice.
• Travel regionally or internationally for customer engagements and incident response as required.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant hands-on experience in digital forensics and incident response.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience securing or assessing OT/ICS environments, including industrial networks, segmentation, incident response, and security architecture.
• Strong working knowledge of OT cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, GNFA, GREM, CISSP, CISA, OSCP, or equivalent are strongly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong executive-level and customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical findings into business and operational risk.
• Fluency in English and Arabic (spoken and written).

Additional Information

• Must currently reside in Qatar or be able to legally work in Qatar and provide onsite customer support as required.