OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer - USA - Remote

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.

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