Cyber Assurance Engineer – OT / Industrial Environments
Salary: £80k+ • Bonus • Outstanding benefits • Flexible working
A leading UK critical‑infrastructure operator is expanding its cyber function and is hiring a Cyber Assurance Engineer to strengthen security across complex Operational Technology (OT) environments. This is a newly created position with scope to shape, influence, and develop the organisation’s approach to cyber assurance.
This role would suit:
- ✅ IT Security / GRC Consultants wanting to break into OT security
- ✅ Cyber Assurance professionals seeking more technical exposure
- ✅ Individuals eager to learn industrial security frameworks, OT risk, and engineering environments
We are open‑minded about background. If you bring core cyber assurance capability, curiosity, and a willingness to learn OT, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
You’ll sit within Engineering and provide cyber assurance across a high‑availability industrial environment. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading cyber assurance activities in line with internal policy and regulatory commitments
- Conducting technical audits, gap assessments, and compliance reviews against NCSC CAF and internal frameworks
- Managing requirements and evidence collection for cyber assessment frameworks
- Tracking cyber KPIs, compliance milestones, and reporting to key stakeholders
- Coordinating internal and external cyber resources, suppliers, and assessors
- Supporting the development of incident response plans and OT‑focused recovery playbooks
- Owning and maturing the Cyber Security Management System (CSMS) to drive continuous improvement
- Collaborating with engineers to ensure alignment between IT, OT, and security objectives
About You
You don’t need OT experience — just a willingness to learn. We’re looking for someone who can blend assurance, communication, and a pragmatic engineering mindset.
You’ll ideally bring:
- Experience in cyber security assurance, governance, risk, or compliance
- Familiarity with standards such as ISA/IEC 62443 (advantageous, not essential)
- Understanding of differences between IT and OT, or an interest in learning
- Strong IT literacy, analytical thinking, and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and proactively
- Positive, can‑do attitude and the confidence to own tasks end‑to‑end
- Degree or recognised cyber qualification (nice to have, not mandatory)
What’s on Offer
- Competitive salary (£80k+)
- Annual bonus
- Private medical
- Flexible working
- Salary‑sacrifice pension
- Ongoing training and development, particularly in OT security
- Opportunity to work in a unique industrial environment where your impact is tangible
Security vetting is required, generally needing UK residency for 3 of the past 5 years
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