OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer - USA - Remote

This is a remote position.

Manufacturing organizations need OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer talent for securing OT/ICS environments, improving industrial network resilience, and reducing plant-floor cyber risk. TalentXM should position this role as a practical revenue-generating bench profile for clients modernizing plants, 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 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.

Most in-demand skills to highlight

LinkedIn Recruiter skills to add while posting: OT Security; ICS Security; Industrial Control Systems; IEC 62443; OPC UA; SCADA; Purdue Model; 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 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.

Best-fit alternate titles

· OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer

· OT Security Engineer

· ICS Security Consultant

· Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer