Senior Engineer, Control Systems - Systems and Virtualization

Job description / Role

To provide specialist technical expertise, advice, guidance and support in all types of control systems front end servers, stations including virtual systems infrastructure. Provide DCS and SCADA related security solutions covering PCD, PCAD & BD integration and interfaces including virtualization and backup platforms. Develop solutions for maintenance and quality problems of control systems infrastructure in Sohar plants (AP, PP, SR & SRIP). Identify opportunities of improvement, as well as assess and support improvement proposals from others.

DELIVERABLE:

- Ensures availability, quality and reliability of industrial automation Servers, Stations, Clients, HMI’s and other systems infrastructure in Sohar plants – comprising Distributed Control System (DCS), Emergency Shut Down (ESD) system and PLC based control systems.

- Ensures OEM Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies (IBM, Dell or EMC) and SAN fabric technologies (FC, iSCSI) are engaged for high availability for automation systems.


- Ensures that disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure are placed and tested in Orpic plants for automation systems includes physical and virtualized servers like Cluster, Resource Pools and High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Storage APIs, multi-pathing and VMware Site Recovery Manager.

- Ensures all the automation and critical systems are patched & upgraded as per OEM approved best practices release for all Hardware & Software Components involved: Storage/Servers Firmware Upgrade, OS Patching and VMware Update Manager.

- Ensures physical and virtualized servers backups, archives and Image backups are configured on daily, weekly and monthly basis according to data retention policy of Sohar plants.

- Ensure all automation systems performance (physical and virtualized servers) is monitored on daily basis for traffic and system health status.

- Ensures Microsoft Technologies like SQL, DC, Active Directory, TS, FTS, SRS, System Center Suit, DNS, DFS and KMS are placed and maintained in Sohar plants for automation systems.

- Ensures to support VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Physical to virtual (P2V), Linux and Oracle platform OS and applications.

- Contribute to operational security through effective and reliable system hardening.

- Develop specification and scope of work for new control systems infrastructure (physical server or virtualization technologies) to be installed based on requirement and support execution of related project.

- Carries out physical server, client, VMware hosts and software preventive maintenance including upgrades during planned shutdown.

- Plan and execute assessments, audit and generate reports based on log analysis.

- Provide technical inputs for evaluation of bids related to control systems servers and VMware infrastructure.

- Assist in detail design, project schedule, quality action plan documentation in line with international, national and Orpic standards

Knowledge Experience & Qualifications:

- Minimum Qualifications for this position is a University degree in IT or Computer Science/Engineering or similar.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in a similar role.

- Knowledge of servers, computers, virtualization, backup infrastructure and integration and cyber security platforms /solutions.

- Knowledge of process control domain and process control access domain.

- Knowledge of Process Control Domain & Process Control Access Domain infrastructure.

- Experience in systems suitable for monitoring applications.

Skills:

- Excellent interpersonal skills with strong customer orientation

- Problem solving skills.

- Expert level system and virtualization engineering skills.

About the Company

Orpic is one of Oman’s largest and most rapidly growing businesses in the Middle East oil industry. Orpic’s refineries in Suhar and Muscat, as well as the aromatics and polypropylene production plants in Suhar, provide fuel, chemicals, plastics and other petroleum products, to Oman and the world.

Owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company SAOC, Orpic’s impressive integration of refinery and plant operations coupled with its ambitious growth plans, has cemented its position as one of the industry’s most forward-thinking companies. The company currently recruits around 2,600 employees who work towards the common goal of an integrated Omani refining and petrochemicals business expected to increase to 3,000 by 2020.

Orpic is committed to operating safely and reliably, while paying due care to the environment and the communities within which it operates. The company strongly believes in serving Oman with pride.