Operational Technology Security Specialist

4 weeks ago


Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom Sword Full time
Operational Technology Security Specialist

Sword Group is a world-leading IT and digital transformation partner that helps streamline your business, improve quality, and reduce costs.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Operational Technology Security Specialist to help grow our Security practice, with a focus on Operational Technology (OT) environments. You will be seen as a trusted advisor and help our customers secure their OT environments, protect critical infrastructure, and mitigate security risks.

The role will require the Operational Technology Security Specialist to conduct consultancy and oversee project assignments in the field of Operational Technology (OT) cyber security to help our customers mitigate the risks of vulnerabilities in their OT environment. You should have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to interact with others from the executive level to highly technical analysts in structured and unstructured situations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct site surveys to help customers identify the systems in their OT environment.
  • Conduct system and network security compliance assessments to assess vulnerabilities in OT environments.
  • Facilitate risk assessments to assess and mitigate the identified vulnerabilities in OT environments.
  • Develop OT policies and procedures to help customers reduce the risk of a security breach at an installation, and sustain OT security.
  • Conduct audits and gap analysis to assess customer compliance against policies and procedures to ensure ongoing protection against security incidents.
  • Remediation of OT to close gaps and ensure compliance with policies and standards.
  • Provide general OT security advice to assist customers addressing OT security issues and ensure safe, continuous production operations.

Requirements:

  • Experience working in a consultant capacity or within an organization's OT environment to establish roadmaps to improve their current security posture and developing the functional/operational processes and procedures to support their mission.
  • Experience developing content-rich final reports and associated deliverables with results of subject matter expert analysis and improvement recommendations.
  • Experience presenting the results of applied analysis to client stakeholders to include senior or executive leadership.
  • Experience with cyber security processes, tools, and technologies and extensive knowledge of best practices regarding their implementation.
  • Prior experience working in OT environments across a variety of verticals to include Energy, Oil and Gas, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and/or related industries.
  • Prior experience leading an assessment or evaluation of an OT environment to include execution of the assessment, analysis of results, and formulation of a final report for dissemination to key stakeholders.
  • Cyber security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, GCIA, GCIH, GCFE etc.

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.



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