Cyber Security Advisory Lead - ICS​/SCADA​/OT

Job Title:

Cyber Security Advisory Lead
-ICS/SCADA/OT

Salary: £75,000 - £82,000 Plus Fantastic Benefits

Contract Type:
Permanent / Full time

Location:

North Greenwich, Pier Walk / remote working 50% office Attendance

Advert Closes:
Sunday 25th October 2026

UK Sponsorship not available for this position

You will influence the lives of millions

At TfL, we operate one of the busiest metro systems in the world, with 5 million people using the underground daily. Join us, and you will be amongst the leading engineers, architects and consultants responsible for making TfL world famous, from our London Underground covering 272 stations, or our red bus fleet of 9300 vehicles, TfL remains a key part of the Capital's success.

TfL's cyber security professionals play a critical and ever-increasing role in protecting these services and the online systems that make it all work, safeguarding our customers as they travel across the capital's network, and ultimately helping to realise the Government's ambition to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and do business.

Our cyber security advisors provide specialist support to the organisation, influencing top-level strategy all the way through to the architectural designs to protect TfL assets and reduce the likelihood and impact of a cyber security incident.

We are looking for a team lead to lead and line manage a team of cyber security advisors who are responsible for working with a variety of stakeholders and groups, providing specialist Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology (ICS/OT) cyber security advice and guidance, supporting the organisation to align with organisational policies, standards and good practice. The ability to build relationships and manage multiple stakeholders is essential in this role.

We're looking for a great communicator, able to make the complex understandable for a wide range of stakeholders.

As a cyber security advisory lead, you will ideally have relevant skills and experience working in cyber security using best practices (e.g., ISO
27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework, NIS Regulations) and/or experience working in Infrastructure (IT/OT) or Cloud environments with cyber security responsibilities and be able to apply these to real world systems. Your advisory and management experience will enable you to work collaboratively with business stakeholders to build or procure secure systems that minimise TfL's cyber risk exposure and meets regulatory obligations (e.g. NIS Regulations).

Prior experience in cyber security is required and experience with Industrial Control Systems/Operational Technology would be advantageous.

This role has line management responsibilities therefore prior experience leading and managing a team would be advantageous. At this time line management responsibilities will be for two cyber security advisors, however this is intended to grow over time.

• Lead and line manage a team of cyber security advisors who are responsible for working with a variety of stakeholders and groups including project teams, system owners and the wider cyber security team providing pragmatic cyber security advice and guidance and a range of cyber security services and activities.
• Ensure strong and strategic relationships exist between the cyber security team and key stakeholders including risk owners, project teams and system owners.
• Ensure that risk owners, and their delegates, have access to appropriate and high quality cyber security advice, enabling them to make informed decisions to support the objective of mitigating cyber security risk at TfL.
• Support risk owners in ensuring that cyber security controls are identified and implemented, in line with the standards set for new and existing…