Principal Technical Consultant - Operational Technology, Network Security

5 hours, 12 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1001-5000
$43M raised

Description

  • Lead OT assessments, strategy engagements, and strategy, roadmap, design, and plan (SRDP) workstreams.
  • Facilitate discovery workshops, site visits, technical deep dives, and executive working sessions using safe, non-disruptive approaches.
  • Assess OT assets, networks, control systems, dependencies, ownership, operational constraints, and maturity across people, processes, and technology.
  • Identify security, reliability, visibility, resilience, lifecycle, and single-point-of-failure risks.
  • Develop current- and future-state architectures, maturity assessments, prioritized roadmaps, and executive-ready recommendations.
  • Analyze ICS and OT architectures, IT/OT connectivity, segmentation, remote access, monitoring, recovery, and security controls.
  • Lead technical consultants and client resources, review deliverables, and mentor team members.
  • Partner with project managers, account teams, and other practices to deliver integrated client solutions.
  • Support business development through discovery, scoping, estimates, proposals, and technical presentations.
  • Develop reusable OT methods, templates, reference architectures, thought leadership, and client briefings.

Requirements

  • 10+ years delivering complex technology, cybersecurity, network, or engineering solutions, including significant OT or ICS experience.
  • Experience leading OT or ICS assessments, architecture, segmentation, cybersecurity, or modernization engagements.
  • Strong knowledge of control-system architectures and industrial protocols, including Modbus, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, or OPC UA.
  • Deep OT networking and security expertise, including routing and switching, firewalls, industrial DMZs, segmentation, remote access, identity, and monitoring.
  • Ability to balance technical decisions with safety, availability, production continuity, maintenance windows, and OT lifecycle needs.
  • Experience creating architecture diagrams, maturity assessments, prioritized roadmaps, and executive presentations.
  • Experience facilitating workshops with plant-floor stakeholders through executive leadership.
  • Proven ability to lead technical teams, delegate work, review deliverables, and mentor others.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience, with willingness to travel to client sites as needed.
  • Preferred: familiarity with ISA/IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, NIST CSF, NERC CIP, industry regulations, OT security tools, IT/OT convergence, or certifications such as GICSP, GRID, CISSP, ISA/IEC 62443, CCNP, or CCIE.

Benefits

  • On-target earnings including base salary and applicable target bonus.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid company holidays and paid time off.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave.
  • Cross-department training, professional development, and sponsored certifications and credentials.
  • Access to a multi-million-dollar technology lab.

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