Principal Consultant​/Associate - OT Cyber Security

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

As one of the world’s leading engineering, professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we are passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us which is all about reaching beyond the expected to do work that will make a profound impact felt long into the future.

WSP’s recent global digital strategy, defines key strategic offerings that WSP wants to grow and invest in, and ‘Operational Technology Cybersecurity’ is one of them. This marks a significant acknowledgement of our cyber security success story so far and the commitment to our teams and clients to continue to deliver cyber security services applied and in context.

We are recruiting for a Cyber Security Consultant to join our industry-leading Cyber Security Capability team, which is delivering specialist cyber security services to a wide spectrum of industries.

As a valued member of the team, you will access a range of benefits including targeted professional development and the opportunity to work alongside specialists across our business. You will contribute to projects by providing cyber security and strategy advice, technical assurance, solution guidance, specification input, design support, and testing assurance to our domestic and international clients.

You will provide technical consultancy services aligned to client needs and will support WSP’s cyber security deliverables through the lifecycle of OT/IT development and Digital Transformation projects. You will contribute to the development of proportionate, risk-based recommendations and help translate strategy into practical delivery.

You will have a background in Cyber Security, OT, Integration or Systems Engineering, ideally gained in a consultancy or supplier environment. You will be comfortable working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, supporting junior colleagues where needed, and building trusted relationships with clients.

• Supporting clients on cyber security compliance, including NIS-D, NIST, ISO 27001, ISA/IEC 62443 and other relevant industry standards and best practice
• Contributing to governance frameworks and supporting the development of Cyber Security and Information Security Management Systems
• Assessing cyber security controls, reviewing architecture proposals, and supporting threat and risk assessments
• Supporting cyber security requirements analysis and tailoring outputs to client context
• Understanding business and technical requirements and translating them into clear, deliverable actions with support from senior colleagues
• Collaborating with clients, government agencies, partners and supply chains to help define technical and procedural solutions to complex problems
• Working across projects to support consistent delivery of best-practice cyber security
• Supporting client presentations and proposals by explaining our cyber security services and helping shape the best way to address digital resilience challenges

• Specifics of OT, IT and IoT/IIoT cyber security
• Industry specific experience of applied cyber security, ideally gained within the following sectors;
  Energy e.g. Nuclear, Oil/Gas, Electricity, Rail/Road, Healthcare, Smart Infrastructure/Buildings, Aviation, or Maritime.
• A degree in an…