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Operational Technology Security Consultant Jobs in Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK at Sword Group
Title: Operational Technology Security Consultant
Company: Sword Group
Location: Aberdeen City, Scotland, UK
Type: Full Time
Category: IT/Tech, Security
Location: Aberdeen City
Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams, and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
We are looking for a highly skilled, highly motivated Operational Technology Security Consultant 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 Consultant 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 excellentcommunication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to interact with others from theexecutive levelto highly technical analysts in structured and unstructured situations.
Here’s
what the role looks like:
Conduct site surveys to help customers identify the systems in their OT environment (including offshore environments).
Provide guidance around adhering to industry best practices and standards OG86 and NIS.
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.
Resolve customer issues.
Position requires some degree of travel; mostly in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East.
Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:
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.
Specialty in one or more of the following OT domains:
Network Architecture, Inventory Gathering, Situational Review, Endpoint Protection, Policy & Governance, Standards,Education& Awareness.
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 executiveleadership.
Experience with cyber security processes, tools, and technologies and extensive knowledge of best practices regarding their implementation.
Strong interpersonal, verbal, and writtencommunication skillsto successfully accomplish client-facing interactions.
Prior experience working in OT environments acr…
