OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer - USA - Remote

Stellenbeschreibung:

Manufacturing organizations need OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer talent for securing OT/ICS environments, improving industrial network resilience, and reducing plant-floor cyber risk.

What the consultant will do

Assess OT/ICS environments, network segmentation, remote access, asset inventory, and plant-floor security gaps.
Apply IEC 62443, ISA-95, Purdue Model, and NIST-aligned controls to manufacturing environments.
Partner with plant engineering, IT security, controls, networking, and operations teams.
Review SCADA, PLC, historian, HMI, OPC-UA, and industrial protocol exposure risks.
Support secure architecture, risk remediation, incident response readiness, and audit documentation.
Communicate risk in business terms for plant leaders and executives.

Skill / Technology Score Demand Label Category

OPC-UA 100 Very High Demand
OT/Integration ISA-95 / Purdue Model 93 Very High Demand
OT/Architecture Industrial Cybersecurity (IEC Very High Demand
OT/Security MQTT / Sparkplug B 91 Very High Demand
OT/Integration SCADA (Ignition / FactoryTalk / WinCC) 84 High Demand
OT Kepware / Ignition / Wonderware 84 High Demand
OT/Integration PLC (Siemens TIA, Rockwell Studio Core Demand
OT/Controls OT Field Protocols (Modbus/Profibus/EtherNet-IP) 74 Core Demand
OT/Integration

Required qualifications

Hands-on or strongly demonstrable experience with: OPC-UA, ISA-95 / Purdue Model, Industrial Cybersecurity (IEC 62443), MQTT / Sparkplug B, SCADA (Ignition / FactoryTalk / WinCC), Kepware / Ignition / Wonderware.
Hands-on experience in manufacturing, industrial, supply chain, operations technology, or enterprise transformation environments.
Ability to work with both business stakeholders and technical teams across OT and IT boundaries.
Strong documentation, troubleshooting, testing, communication, and delivery ownership.
Experience supporting implementation, integration, support, rollout, upgrade, or production deployment projects.
Comfortable in remote, hybrid, and plant-facing delivery models depending on client needs.

Preferred qualifications

Familiarity with plant-floor constraints, industrial networks, safety, uptime, and change-control expectations.
Experience with regulated or quality-sensitive manufacturing such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices, food and beverage, packaging, chemicals, or electronics.
Experience working with global teams, offshore/nearshore delivery, and client-facing consulting environments.
Exposure to Agile, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, SOP documentation, runbooks, and production support models.