Job Description

Job Description:IT Specialist – Operational Digital Twin Parsons is seeking an IT Specialist to support the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale Geospatial Digital Twin programme for a major national infrastructure owner in the Middle East. This multi-year initiative will design, build, and operationalize an Operational Digital Twin platform that integrates geospatial data, real-time IoT/SCADA feeds, asset information, AI/ML components, and core enterprise systems to enable data-driven planning, operations, and maintenance. The role will work closely with the Solution Architect, Cybersecurity SME, Integration Lead, and a team of international experts, developers, and engineers. The scope spans discovery and stakeholder engagement, IT infrastructure and platform design, proof-of-concept delivery, implementation of a production-grade environment, post-implementation support, and structured training and knowledge transfer. The IT Specialist will help identify and specify IT environments (including compute/GPUs, storage, networking, and platform services) required for complex software integrations in the Geospatial Digital Twin, design and support implementation of these environments, and assist in designing, implementing, and managing federated identity and access solutions across the organisation and with external partners. What You’ll Be DoingSupport the Solution Architect and Product Manager in defining IT infrastructure and platform requirements (compute, GPUs, storage, networking, backup/recovery) for the Operational Digital Twin across discovery, PoC, implementation, and post-implementation support phasesAssist in sizing, specifying, and documenting on-premises and/or cloud environments needed to host GIS, AI/ML, integration, data, and application components, taking into account performance, scalability, and resilience requirementsHelp design and support implementation of identity and access architectures, including federated identity solutions across the organisation and with external partners, in coordination with cybersecurity and enterprise IT teamsSupport configuration and management of identity providers, single sign-on, and role-based access controls for the Digital Twin platform and integrated applications, ensuring alignment with security and governance policiesAssist in coordinating infrastructure-related activities with internal IT, cloud, and security teams, including environment provisioning, connectivity, monitoring, and incident response arrangementsHelp prepare and maintain IT architecture and configuration documentation, operational runbooks, and environment diagrams, and support testing, go-live, and post-go-live operations for IT environments