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. 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