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.