OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer

KeyLogic, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 153,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

KeyLogic, LLC is seeking an OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer to support assessment, protection, and modernization of OT and ICS environments. The role involves evaluating cybersecurity risks, developing secure architecture recommendations, and supporting resilient OT security strategies for critical missions.

The candidate will perform risk assessments, architecture guidance, and RMF tailoring while collaborating with stakeholders across cybersecurity and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant IT discipline.
• IAT Level III required.
• Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Assess OT and ICT systems for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Analyze risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Tailor RMF controls and test strategies for operational technology.
• Support secure architecture design and modernization planning.
• Evaluate impacts of emerging threats on OT environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering stakeholders.
• Support compliance and security assessment activities.
• Develop technical reports and recommendations.
• Evaluate cybersecurity risks with AI-enabled OT and modernization initiatives.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Problem-solving

Experience supporting cybersecurity

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant IT discipline

Job description

KeyLogic is seeking an OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer to support assessment, protection, and modernization of operational technology and industrial control system environments. This role will evaluate cybersecurity risks, develop secure architecture recommendations, and support implementation of resilient OT security strategies.

What You'll Deliver

• OT/Weapons/ICS cyber-risk assessment methods and RMF-tailoring recommendations.
• Architecture and risk mitigation recommendations.
• Cyber resilience strategies for operational environments.
• Security modernization roadmaps.
• Technical guidance supporting mission assurance.

What You'll Do

• Assess OT and ICT systems for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Analyze risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Tailor RMF controls and test strategies where standard baselines do not directly fit operational technology.
• Support secure architecture design and modernization planning.
• Evaluate impacts of emerging threats on operational technology environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering stakeholders.
• Support compliance and security assessment activities.
• Develop technical reports and recommendations.
• Evaluate cybersecurity risks associated with emerging autonomy, AI-enabled operational technologies, and industrial control system modernization initiatives.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant IT discipline.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• 9+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity initiatives.
• Knowledge of operational technology and industrial control systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• IAT Level III required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting cyber authorization or RMF activities for mission-sensitive OT, weapon-system, or ICs environments.
• Experience with DoW OT environments.
• Cybersecurity certifications.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust and industrial cybersecurity frameworks.
• Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) preferred
• CSSP Analyst and/or CSSP Infrastructure Support would be very valuable.

This role is pending contract award and subject to customer approval.

Salary estimate: $170,000

About KeyLogic:

Supporting critical missions at the intersection of data and science, KeyLogic provides mission management, systems analysis, data analytics, digital transformation, and cybersecurity to customers in the energy, federal civilian, and defense sectors, with a 20+ year portfolio of successes supporting DOE, DOC, EPA, DOD, DHS, FBI, and other federal agencies challenged with complex missions. We help our customers solve the world's most challenging problems with unsurpassed anticipatory service.

KeyLogic employs over 400 team members, including systems designers, developers, data scientists, IT and cybersecurity specialists, engineers, mission experts, program managers, and more than 70 Ph.D. scientists. This multidisciplinary team works together solving challenging problems with anticipatory service-always staying one step ahead-benefiting our customers, and ultimately helping build a better world.

We are committed to the success of each customer's mission. We care enough to make their mission our mission and their success our success. We take technical service delivery to a level above our peers. Our anticipatory service is best-in-clas s.

KeyLogic is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer. KeyLogic is committed to a policy of non-discrimination against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Request for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Job Code:

2795