OT Cybersecurity Consultant (Contract)
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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.