OT Cybersecurity Consultant (Contract)

Value Driven Solutions, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Value Driven Solutions, Inc. seeks an OT Cybersecurity Consultant (Contract) to secure industrial environments while maintaining production.

You will perform asset inventories, risk assessments, and gap analyses against IEC 62443 and NIST CSF, designing zero-trust architectures and DMZs between IT and OT. You will implement secure remote access for vendors, deploy OT monitoring tools, and write incident response playbooks for plant staff.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, 3+ focused on ICS/OT.
• Experience with OT security platforms (Claroty, Nozomi Networks, Dragos, Armis).
• Firewall configuration experience (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco).

Responsibilities

• Perform OT asset inventories, risk assessments and gap analyses against IEC 62443 and NIST CSF.
• Design zero-trust and zone/conduit architectures, DMZs and firewall rule sets between IT and OT.
• Implement secure remote access for vendors and engineers.
• Deploy and tune OT monitoring tools for threat detection.
• Write incident response playbooks and train plant staff.

Skills

OT cybersecurity

ICS/OT security

Threat detection

Tools

Claroty

Nozomi Networks

Dragos

Armis

Firewall configuration

Job description

OT Cybersecurity Consultant (Contract)

Secure machinery that was never designed to be connected, without disrupting production.

What you'll do

• Perform OT asset inventories, risk assessments and gap analyses against IEC 62443 and NIST CSF
• Design zero-trust and zone/conduit architectures, DMZs and firewall rule sets between IT and OT
• Implement secure remote access for vendors and engineers
• Deploy and tune OT monitoring tools for threat detection
• Write incident response playbooks and train plant staff

Requirements

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, 3+ focused on IC S/OT
• Experience with OT security platforms (e.g., Claroty, Nozomi Networks, Dragos, Armis)
• Firewall configuration experience (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco)
• Working knowledge of industrial protocols and safe testing practices on live systems

Nice to have: GICSP, GRID, ISA/IEC 62443 certification, CISSP; ability to obtain a security clearance for defense-sector clients.