Job Description:

Join an engineering consultancy delivering complex projects across critical and highly regulated environments. This is an opportunity to apply your OT cyber security expertise across challenging engineering programmes while continuing to develop your technical and consultancy experience.

What you will need

• British citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain SC security clearance.
• Experience in cyber security within operational technology, industrial control systems or an engineering-led environment.
• Understanding of OT architectures, industrial networks, assets, protocols and operational constraints.
• Experience in cyber security risk assessments, requirements development, architecture reviews or technical assurance.
• Practical experience building OT networks and deploying and configuring security hardware.

Your role

• Deliver OT and industrial cyber security consultancy across client projects.
• Assess operational technology systems, architectures and interfaces to identify threats, vulnerabilities and appropriate risk treatments.
• Develop cyber security requirements, risk assessments, plans and assurance evidence across the system lifecycle.
• Apply relevant cyber security standards and good practice, including IEC 62443.
• Integrate cyber security with systems engineering, functional safety, commissioning and operational activities.
• Support design reviews, supplier assessments and technical assurance while contributing to client relationships and future business development.

Your experience

• A degree, equivalent qualification or relevant professional experience in cyber security, systems engineering, control and instrumentation, electrical or electronic engineering, computer science or a related discipline.
• Understanding of the differences between operational technology and enterprise IT, particularly around safety, availability, legacy systems and operational constraints.
• Ability to produce clear, proportionate and auditable technical documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with sound engineering judgement.
• Confident communication skills and the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage your own workload and deliver activities to agreed time, cost and quality expectations.

Experience with IEC 62443, critical national infrastructure, defence, nuclear, energy, transport or manufacturing environments would be advantageous. Knowledge of OT network segmentation, secure remote access, functional safety and secure-by-design approaches would also be beneficial.

Location and working pattern
Bristol, with a flexible hybrid working arrangement involving a combination of office, client-site and home working.

Salary and rewards
£60,000–£75,000 depending on experience.

Benefits and flexibility
Rewards extend beyond pay with:

• Annual leave with the option to purchase additional days.
• Company pension, private healthcare and life assurance.
• Performance-related bonus and enhanced parental benefits.
• Professional development, funded training and professional membership support.
• Flexible working arrangements and additional lifestyle benefits.

Due to the nature of work at our client's site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens who hold SC clearance or can obtain it.

This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high-technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume