Job description

Job title: IOF Infrastructure Lead - onsite (Intelligent Oil Field)
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.

Responsibilities

1. Digital oilfield infrastructure ownership
Lead the infrastructure that supports digital field operations, including:

• Field networks (fiber, microwave, LTE, satellite)
• Edge computing platforms
• Industrial servers
• Data historians
• SCADA systems
• Real-time data acquisition
• Cloud connectivity
• Remote operations centers

Examples: Connecting surface facilities to onshore data centers, ensuring streaming telemetry data is available to operators, supporting predictive maintenance and robust digital twins.

2. OT / IT integration
Bridge operational technology (OT) and corporate IT by integrating:

• SCADA
• PLCs
• DCS systems
• Sensor networks
• PI historians
• Enterprise applications
• Cloud analytics platforms

Common technologies include PI System, DMZ, APIs, Data Lake, Industrial IoT gateways, and Digital Twins.
Ensure production data flows reliably and securely from the field into analytics and business systems.

3. Infrastructure architecture
Define technical architecture standards for:

• Field communications
• Data centers
• Edge computing
• Redundancy
• Disaster recovery
• Hybrid cloud
• OT network segmentation

4. Cybersecurity leadership
Collaborate with cybersecurity teams on:

• OT network security
• Compliance
• NIST alignment
• Remote access security
• Zero-trust architecture
• Vulnerability management
• Ransomware protection for industrial systems

5. Supporting production optimization
Enable operational value through infrastructure supporting:

• Predictive maintenance
• Production surveillance
• Digital twins
• Remote operations
• AI/ML analytics
• Automated workflows
• Emissions monitoring

Ensure the technology platform can support these digital initiatives reliably at scale.

6. Vendor & project management
Oversee:

• Systems integrators
• Telecom vendors
• Cloud providers
• Industrial automation suppliers
• Infrastructure contractors

Lead large capital projects such as digital oilfield rollouts, smart field modernization, OT cloud migration, and unified operations centers.

7. Team leadership
Manage:

• Infrastructure engineers
• OT engineers
• Network specialists
• SCADA support teams
• Field IT teams
• Vendors and contractors

May be responsible for contributing or leading on technical standards, roadmaps, incident management, and operational SLAs.

Skills typically required

Technical: Industrial networking, SCADA/OT systems, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, telecommunications, infrastructure architecture, high availability systems.

Leadership: Program delivery, stakeholder management, vendor management, cross-functional leadership.