OT/ICS/SCADA Security Recruitment

Operational technology security sits at the intersection of physical infrastructure and cyber threat. The professionals who do this well are extraordinarily rare — and as CNI operators face increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, demand is accelerating sharply.

The market

OT/ICS security requires fluency in two worlds that have historically operated in silos: IT security and industrial engineering. A professional who understands TCP/IP but has never worked with SCADA, PLCs, or distributed control systems won't be effective in a CNI environment. Equally, an industrial engineer without cyber security depth can't design the protective architecture these environments need. The overlap between these two populations is genuinely small — and the NIS2 Directive is adding regulatory pressure that's driving demand still higher.

Roles we recruit

• OT Security Engineer
• ICS Security Architect
• SCADA Security Analyst
• OT/IT Convergence Specialist
• CNI Security Consultant
• OT Security Manager
• Industrial Cyber Security Lead
• OT Penetration Tester

Experience and skills

The best OT/ICS security professionals typically have backgrounds in industrial engineering, process control, or utility operations — and have subsequently developed cyber security depth, often through self-study, industry training, or exposure to a specific OT security incident. Those who came from IT security and crossed into OT are rarer but equally valuable. Most are not actively job seeking.

• SCADA / DCS / PLC Experience
• OT Protocols (Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61850, Profinet)
• IEC 62443 / NIST SP 800-82
• Threat Modelling in OT Environments
• OT Network Segmentation
• Incident Response in Operational Settings
• GICSP (Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional)
• IT/OT Convergence Architecture