OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer - USA - Remote

Manufacturing organizations need OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineertalent for securing OT/ICS environments, improving industrial networkresilience, and reducing plant-floor cyber risk. TalentXM should position thisrole as a practical revenue-generating bench profile for clients modernizingplants, operations, data, AI, OT/IT, and integration programs.

What the consultant will do

• Assess OT/ICS environments,network segmentation, remote access, asset inventory, and plant-floor securitygaps.
• Apply IEC 62443, ISA-95, PurdueModel, 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 businessterms for plant leaders and executives.

Most in-demand skills tohighlight

LinkedInRecruiter skills to add while posting:OT Security;ICS Security; Industrial Control Systems; IEC 62443; OPC UA; SCADA; PurdueModel; ISA-95; MQTT; Network Segmentation.

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 62443)

93

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 5000)

75

Core Demand

OT/Controls

OT Field Protocols (Modbus/Profibus/EtherNet-IP)

74

Core Demand

OT/Integration

Required qualifications

• Hands-on or stronglydemonstrable experience with: OPC-UA, ISA-95 / Purdue Model, IndustrialCybersecurity (IEC 62443), MQTT / Sparkplug B, SCADA (Ignition / FactoryTalk /WinCC), Kepware / Ignition / Wonderware.
• Hands-on experience inmanufacturing, industrial, supply chain, operations technology, or enterprisetransformation environments.
• Ability to work with bothbusiness stakeholders and technical teams across OT and IT boundaries.
• Strong documentation,troubleshooting, testing, communication, and delivery ownership.
• Experience supportingimplementation, integration, support, rollout, upgrade, or productiondeployment projects.
• Comfortable in remote, hybrid,and plant-facing delivery models depending on client needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with plant-floorconstraints, industrial networks, safety, uptime, and change-controlexpectations.
• Experience with regulated orquality-sensitive manufacturing such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices,food and beverage, packaging, chemicals, or electronics.
• Experience working with globalteams, offshore/nearshore delivery, and client-facing consulting environments.
• Exposure to Agile, Jira, AzureDevOps, ServiceNow, SOP documentation, runbooks, and production support models.

Best-fit alternate titles

·OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer

·OT Security Engineer

·ICS Security Consultant

·Industrial CybersecurityEngineer

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