Principal Security Consultant - OT Security

This delivery role will be expected to lead customer engagements, deliver final reports and presentations with professional excellence. The ideal candidate will have a background in zero trust, enterprise segmentation, and operational technology security, as well as consulting experience and executive leadership, communication, and presentations.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following :

Customer Focus :

- Understand customer needs and design solutions that solve for their needs-short and long term.

- Evaluate and recommend security strategies for networks, systems, operations, cloud, people, processes, and technologies.

- Through the application of industry standards and security best practices, develop and recommend plans to structure secure architectures.

- Use a strategic approach to managing customer interactions and data throughout the customer journey with a goal of higher business growth through better customer experiences.

- Build strong customer relationships to deliver customer-centric solutions.

End-to-End Solution Management/Delivery :

- Be the primary lead in cybersecurity delivery engagements for a wide variety of clients in different industry verticals.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of OT systems.

- Implement and maintain cybersecurity measures to protect OT assets.

- Develop and implement best practices for OT system configuration, monitoring, and optimization.

- Analyze security measures such as access controls, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to protect OT assets.

- Apply principles to ensure compliance with relevant regulations (NERC CIP, TSA), and standards (NIST, IEC 62443).

- Develop, create and write, and deliver documentation and technical artifacts (OT architecture, configurations, and procedures) in a professional manner that will be given to Clients and others in a professional manner.

Requirements :

- Thorough knowledge of the lifecycle, maintenance, and security of ICS, SCADA systems, and other OT infrastructure.

- Someone with a minimum of 15 years of experience.

- Experience with OT systems such as SCADA, PLCs, DCS, and HMI.

- Proficiency in network protocols and communication technologies used in OT environments (e. g., Modbus, Profibus, OPC).

- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

- Consulting for security consulting firms with example deliverables.

- Overall cyber security technical experience.

- Datacenter administration, including design, implementation, and support.

- Networking expertise, including hands-on roles in supporting routers, switches, and firewalls.

- Ability to perform concurrent tasks in complex environments while adjusting priorities.

- Ability to communicate and modify approach, language, and style to different audiences.

- A professional writing style and experience with demonstrable technical and business-related artifacts are required.

- Ability to manage conflicting interests and deal with ambiguity.

- Effective communication skills: capable of supporting presentations to convey concepts and solutions, writing effective

emails, and discussing strategy with senior executives.

- Strong teamwork qualities: able to gain the trust of customers and collaborate effectively within the team.

- Intellectually curious with a desire to understand constantly evolving technology solutions.

- Proactive, collaborative, with emotional intelligence, and the capacity to learn and synthesize new information.

- Adaptable, with the ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

- Self-directed, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.