Operational Technology

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Firm: PA Consulting
Location: Melbourn, United Kingdom
Benefits: Competive
Functional areas: IT Strategy
Industry: ICT
Technology: –

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer‑centric service design and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech‑driven world.

• Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross‑disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.
• Hybrid working – our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
• Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors – no project is ever the same.
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring.
• Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have a budget to take courses (technical and non‑technical training), plus gain certifications.

• Work to agile best practices and cross‑functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders. You’ll be using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients, as well as working on internal projects.
• Live in‑person whiteboard sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.
• Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• An environment that deeply cares about its values.

Essential requirements (you don’t need to meet every criteria – roles tailored to your background may be available).

• Security management of industrial control and operational technology systems and applications such as:
  • Process control
  • SCADA
  • Distributed control
  • PLCs and RTUs
  • Industrial cyber security and data communications
  • Electricity transmission and distribution network control.
• IoT and Industrial IoT
• Industrial cyber security risk management, architecture and security monitoring
• Key industries such as:
  • Electricity generation, transmission, distribution and distributed energy
  • Smart energy and metering
  • Oil and gas
  • Water
  • Civil Nuclear
  • Transport (including aviation, rail, maritime, road and autonomous vehicles)
  • Wider critical infrastructure
• Security standards relating to the sector, including:
  • NCSC NIS Guidance and CAF
  • ISO 27001 and ISO 27005
  • NERC CIP
  • ISA‑99/IEC 62443
  • NIST CSF.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, and some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK. We…