The Huntsmith Limited
My client is seeking a Cybersecurity Consultant to work on an initial 3 month contract with extensions anticipated. The role is predominantly remote but occasional travel to sites in Surrey and the South of England may be required. The successful candidate will hold a current live SC Clearance
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver OT cybersecurity assessments across industrial control systems, SCADA, PLC, DCS, IIoT and critical network environments.
- Conduct OT and cyber maturity assessments using frameworks such as NIST CSF, IEC 62443 and other recognised industry standards.
- Assess critical network infrastructure, including segmentation, remote access, identity, monitoring, resilience and incident response capabilities.
- Review OT architecture, asset inventories, data flows, firewall rules, network zones and conduits.
- Identify security gaps, operational risks, vulnerabilities and control weaknesses across OT environments.
- Develop practical remediation roadmaps that balance cyber risk reduction with operational safety, availability and business continuity.
- Support the design of secure OT architectures, including network segmentation, zero trust principles, secure remote access and monitoring models.
- Advise clients on OT security governance, policies, standards, operating models and supplier risk management.
- Support or lead workshops with engineering, operations, security, IT and senior business stakeholders.
- Produce high-quality client deliverables, including assessment reports, risk registers, maturity scorecards, architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
- Contribute to OT incident response planning, tabletop exercises, cyber resilience testing and recovery planning.
- Support pre-sales activity, including solution shaping, proposal input and client presentations where required.
Typical Engagements
The consultant may support engagements such as:
- OT cybersecurity maturity assessments
- IEC 62443 gap assessments
- NIST CSF maturity reviews
- Critical network infrastructure assessments
- OT asset and architecture discovery
- OT security roadmap development
- Secure remote access reviews
- OT segmentation and firewall rule reviews
- OT incident response readiness assessments
- Cyber resilience and tabletop exercises
- Supplier access and third-party risk reviews
Please submit your most recent CV in application to this position.
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