Principal OT Cybersecurity​/ICS Security Architect

Principal OT Cybersecurity / IC Security Architect Job Location s

US

Requisition :

Position Category:
Information Technology

Clearance:
Public Trust

Peraton Labs is hiring a Principal OT Cybersecurity / IC Security Architect - a senior systems architect role bridging operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and enterprise IT cybersecurity - to join our Strategic Innovation Group in support of a federal customer's cybersecurity and OT modernization program for critical infrastructure.

As a Principal OT Cybersecurity / IC Security Architect on our team, you will lead the requirements and solutions-analysis effort for one or more parallel work streams of the customer's modernization program, spanning core capability areas such as access control, security monitoring, and asset and vulnerability management. You will work with the customer's engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and test-and-evaluation stakeholders, alongside a Peraton Labs delivery team of engineers and technical writers.

The goal is to define requirements, survey the market, evaluate candidate products, and deliver defensible recommendations that guide the customer's procurement decisions.

• Lead end-to-end solutions analysis for one or more work streams: elicit and validate requirements, produce System Requirements Specifications (SRS) with traceability to NERC CIP, FISMA, and CISA Zero Trust Architecture.
• Conduct market research to identify candidate commercial products across identity and access controls, network monitoring and threat visibility, and inventory / configuration / vulnerability management.
• Draft Requests for Information (RFIs), manage vendor response windows, and lead technical engagement with bidders under federal market-research guardrails.
• Assess vendor responses and product capabilities against requirements; author comparison reports and down-select recommendations.
• Design lab test environments, author test plans, and oversee hands‑on product demonstrations and evaluation at customer and Peraton Labs facilities.
• Author Alternative Solutions Analysis (ASA) documents and brief steering committees and executive decision-makers.
• Facilitate multi‑stakeholder workshops across operational technology (SCADA, RTUs, protective relays, industrial protocols) and enterprise IT cybersecurity domains to build consensus on requirements and product selection.

• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination and PIV credential for unescorted access to the customer facility.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline,
  and 12+ years of progressive systems architecture or cyber engineering experience; in lieu of a degree,
  16 years of relevant experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated systems-architecture experience across both operational technology (OT /ICS) and enterprise information technology (IT) security environments.
• Direct experience in the electric‑utility or power‑grid domain (utility, ISO / RTO, generation / transmission / distribution operator, DOE laboratory, or comparable critical‑infrastructure operator).
• Hands‑on experience applying NERC CIP standards (CIP-002 through CIP-014) in a utility environment.
• Proven record leading the full RFI and vendor‑evaluation lifecycle: requirements, market survey, RFI authorship, response evaluation, lab validation, and recommendation.
• Strong technical writing and executive‑briefing skills.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 25%, including routine trips to the Pacific Northwest.

• Working familiarity with FISMA controls and CISA Zero Trust…