OT Security Manager

Role Overview

LeadOperational Technology (OT) and Industrial Cybersecurity consulting engagements, helping clients protect critical industrial environments while maintainingsafety, availability and operational resilience. The role combines deep OT/ICS cybersecurity expertise with consulting leadership, client advisory, delivery management and business development.

The OT Cybersecurity Manager will lead programs spanningOT security strategy, architecture, risk assessment, IT/OT convergence and security implementation across complex industrial and critical infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-endOT/ICS cybersecurity consulting engagements, from assessment and strategy through architecture, remediation and implementation.
• Assess and secure industrial environments includingICS, SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, engineering workstations, historians, industrial networks and connected IIoT assets.
• LeadOT cybersecurity maturity assessments, risk assessments, gap assessments and site-level security reviews.
• Develop OT cybersecurity strategies, transformation roadmaps, governance models and multi-year remediation programs.
• Design secureOT network architectures, including segmentation, security zones and conduits, industrial DMZs and controlled IT/OT connectivity.
• Advise clients onOT asset discovery and inventory, vulnerability management, secure remote access, privileged access, industrial network monitoring and endpoint protection.
• Lead the design and implementation of cybersecurity controls while ensuring solutions respectproduction availability, process safety and operational requirements.
• DevelopOT incident response, monitoring and cyber-resilience capabilities, including integration between plant environments and enterprise security operations.
• Assess legacy industrial systems and develop practical risk-treatment approaches where patching, upgrading or replacing assets may be operationally constrained.
• Provide leadership onIT/OT convergence, ensuring enterprise cybersecurity controls are appropriately adapted for operational environments.
• Apply OT security standards and frameworks includingISA/IEC 62443 and NIST guidance for ICS/OT environments.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams comprisingOT security specialists, cybersecurity architects, engineers and consultants, ensuring delivery quality and client outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships withCISOs, CIOs, OT leaders, engineering teams, plant management and security stakeholders.
• Facilitate client workshops, architecture reviews, risk discussions and executive presentations.
• Support proposals, RFPs, solution development and client pursuits forOT cybersecurity and critical infrastructure transformation.
• Contribute to the development of Accenture's OT security capabilities, methodologies and market offerings.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of cybersecurity, industrial automation or OT experience, with significant hands-on exposure toOT/ICS cybersecurity.
• Strong practical knowledge of industrial environments includingSCADA, DCS, PLCs, HMIs, historians and industrial control networks.
• Demonstrated experience deliveringOT security assessments, architecture, transformation or implementation programs.
• Strong understanding ofIT/OT network segmentation, industrial DMZs, firewalls, remote access, asset discovery, vulnerability management and OT security monitoring.
• Experience applyingISA/IEC 62443 within industrial environments. The standard provides a cybersecurity framework specifically covering industrial automation and control environments. IEC guidance on cybersecurity for operational technology.
• Understanding of the cybersecurity considerations associated withlegacy systems, industrial availability and process safety.
• Experience withinEnergy, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Transportation or other critical infrastructure sectors is strongly preferred.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management and executive communication capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams and complex client engagements.
• Experience supportingproposals, RFP responses, solution shaping and business development.
• Relevant certifications such asISA/IEC 62443, GICSP, CISSP, CISM or equivalent are advantageous.

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