Job description
My client is seeking a Cybersecurity Consultant to work on an initial 3 month contract with extensions anticipated. The role is predominantly remote but occasional travel to sites in Surrey and the South of England may be required. The successful candidate will hold a current live SC Clearance
Key Responsibilities
• Deliver OT cybersecurity assessments across industrial control systems, SCADA, PLC, DCS, IIoT and critical network environments.
• Conduct OT and cyber maturity assessments using frameworks such as NIST CSF, IEC 62443 and other recognised industry standards.
• Assess critical network infrastructure, including segmentation, remote access, identity, monitoring, resilience and incident response capabilities.
• Review OT architecture, asset inventories, data flows, firewall rules, network zones and conduits.
• Identify security gaps, operational risks, vulnerabilities and control weaknesses across OT environments.
• Develop practical remediation roadmaps that balance cyber risk reduction with operational safety, availability and business continuity.
• Support the design of secure OT architectures, including network segmentation, zero trust principles, secure remote access and monitoring models.
• Advise clients on OT security governance, policies, standards, operating models and supplier risk management.
• Support or lead workshops with engineering, operations, security, IT and senior business stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality client deliverables, including assessment reports, risk registers, maturity scorecards, architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
• Contribute to OT incident response planning, tabletop exercises, cyber resilience testing and recovery planning.
• Support pre-sales activity, including solution shaping, proposal input and client presentations where required.
Typical Engagements
The consultant may support engagements such as:
• OT cybersecurity maturity assessments
• IEC 62443 gap assessments
• NIST CSF maturity reviews
• Critical network infrastructure assessments
• OT asset and architecture discovery
• OT security roadmap development
• Secure remote access reviews
• OT segmentation and firewall rule reviews
• OT incident response readiness assessments
• Cyber resilience and tabletop exercises
• Supplier access and third-party risk reviews
Please submit your most recent CV in application to this position.