Quick overview
Job description
Contract: OT Engineer
Start: ASAP (on completion of background checks)
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £500 - £550 outside of IR35
Location: UK remote - some international travel
Reference: 20923
The OT Security Engineer provides hands-on technical evidence and verification work that underpins the architecture decisions during discovery, conducting detailed configuration and capability reviews at the comparator plant, regional hub, and shared IT/OT services.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather evidence for each in-scope OT security capability and control, populating and maintaining the evidence register with sources.
- Conduct configuration and capability reviews at the comparator plant, the regional proximity hub, and shared IT/OT services.
- Validate regional viability per capability and control, including in-country OEM and regulatory availability and cross-border data transfer position.
- Provide hands-on technical verification supporting the reuse, extend, and new status calls in the capability and control map.
- Feed findings into the regional constraints register and support gap identification where evidence cannot be closed remotely.
Essential
- Must have experience with OT remote access and Micro Segmentation
- Hands-on OT/ICS security engineering experience in industrial or critical infrastructure environments.
- Strong practical knowledge of NIST SP 800-82, the Purdue Model, and IEC 62443 in real OT environments.
- Experience conducting OT security assessments, configuration reviews, and capability gap analysis.
- Familiarity with OEM vendor tooling and regional and regulatory constraints affecting OT security
- Proven ability to document findings clearly - evidence registers, gap analysis, constraint registers.
- Comfortable working independently in complex, multi-vendor environments.
Desirable
- Experience in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, or life sciences OT environments.
- Familiarity with OT asset visibility tools - Claroty, Nozomi, Dragos or equivalent.
- ISA/IEC 62443 certification or equivalent.
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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