Principal Security Consultant (IT & OT) - REMOTE
Summary
Principal Security Consultant leads IT and OT security programs, incident response, and vulnerability management while coaching teams and advising enterprise clients on security operations and governance.
Binary Defense is seeking a Principal Security Consultant to serve as the dedicated technical and program leader for a strategic enterprise client operating across information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments.
This is a player-coach role: the successful candidate remains hands-on across security operations, detection, and incident response while owning security programs, chairing cross-functional governance, and serving as the senior security point of contact to the client's project managers, architects, consultants, and leadership team. The role spans the client's project portfolio and requires equal fluency in technical delivery and stakeholder leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Security Operations & Incident Response (IT & OT)
- Provide senior technical expertise across security operations, detection, analysis, and incident response in both IT and OT environments.
- Co-lead the client's Security Operations function, providing direction, escalation support, and continuity across the operations lifecycle.
- Communicate and collaborate through the full lifecycle of escalated events and investigations.
- Lead and contribute to IT and OT incident response efforts, including delivery of associated workshops and assessments, creation of workflows and handbooks, and maintenance of a high-level incident response plan spanning both IT and OT.
Vulnerability Management Program Leadership - Own and lead the client's Vulnerability Management Program end to end, including prioritization, remediation coordination, and program reporting.
Detection Engineering & Documentation - Develop and mature IT and OT threat detections, collaborating across organizational lines to implement proposed changes.
- Contribute to, write, and quality-control standard operating procedures and playbooks for IT and OT security operations.
- Support development of high-level metrics, reporting, and KPIs/KRIs reflecting inputs from security, intelligence, and threat hunting operations.
Program Governance & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead the client's overall Security Delivery meeting with their project managers, architects, consultants, and leadership team.
- Lead a recurring cross-functional Security/IT relationship meeting to maintain alignment between security and broader IT stakeholders.
- Participate in Asset Management Governance, representing security operations requirements in governance decisions.
- ·nsure security operations objectives are represented across the client's various project work streams and initiatives.
Advisory & Transition Support - Advise on the client's IT outsourcing transition, including third-party managed-service arrangements.
- Participate in IT knowledge transfer sessions with the client's IT teams and incoming service providers to preserve operational continuity.