About the role
OT Cybersecurity Consultant (Contract)
Secure machinery that was never designed to be connected, without disrupting production.
What you'll do
* Perform OT asset inventories, risk assessments and gap analyses against IEC 62443 and NIST CSF * Design zero-trust and zone/conduit architectures, DMZs and firewall rule sets between IT and OT * Implement secure remote access for vendors and engineers * Deploy and tune OT monitoring tools for threat detection * Write incident response playbooks and train plant staff
Requirements
* 5+ years in cybersecurity, 3+ focused on ICS/OT * Experience with OT security platforms (e.g., Claroty, Nozomi Networks, Dragos, Armis) * Firewall configuration experience (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco) * Working knowledge of industrial protocols and safe testing practices on live systems
Nice to have: GICSP, GRID, ISA/IEC 62443 certification, CISSP; ability to obtain a security clearance for defense-sector clients.