Lead OT Cyber Security Architect — Hybrid & High-Impact

Avanti; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Avanti seeks experienced OT Cyber Security Consultants/Architects to design secure operational environments and advise clients on major technology programmes. Hybrid working is available with UK-wide client assignments.

You will design target-state security architectures across OT/SCADA, define segmentation patterns, and lead OT security workstreams from assessment to implementation in complex, regulated environments. Excellent salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and delivering OT security architecture.
• Knowledge of industrial control systems, SCADA, PLCs, RTUs and OT networks.
• Experience within complex, regulated or safety-critical operational environments.
• Practical knowledge of segmentation, zones and conduits, secure remote access, monitoring and IT/OT convergence.
• Experience producing target-state architectures, high-level designs, detailed designs and implementation roadmaps.
• Knowledge of recognised OT security standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with OT asset-discovery, monitoring or threat-detection technologies.
• The ability to explain complex technical risks to engineering and senior business stakeholders.
• Previous consultancy, advisory or client-facing delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state security architectures across OT, ICs and SCADA environments.
• Define network segmentation, zoning and secure IT/OT integration patterns.
• Develop secure remote-access, identity, monitoring and asset-visibility solutions.
• Translate cyber risks into architecture requirements, controls and delivery roadmaps.
• Lead OT security workstreams from initial assessment through to implementation.
• Review technical designs and provide architecture assurance.
• Advise engineering, operational, security and senior business stakeholders.
• Support technology selection while balancing security, safety and operational continuity.
• Lead technical workshops and collaborate with multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Skills

OT security architecture

Industrial control systems

SCADA/PLC/RTU knowledge

Regulated environments

IT/OT convergence

Architectural roadmaps

Communication to stakeholders

Consultancy/delivery

Job description

Avanti seeks experienced OT Cyber Security Consultants/Architects to design secure operational environments and advise clients on major technology programmes. Hybrid working is available with UK-wide client assignments.

You will design target-state security architectures across OT/SCADA, define segmentation patterns, and lead OT security workstreams from assessment to implementation in complex, regulated environments. Excellent salary and benefits offered.