Industrial Cybersecurity Consultant

Date: Dec 17, 2024

Location:

US

Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 106520

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Why Black and Veatch

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The Opportunity

The  Industrial Cybersecurity Analyst contributes to technical consulting projects and implementation services for critical infrastructure clients. The Industrial Cybersecurity Analyst leverages their technical and industry knowledge of OT networks and industrial cybersecurity to contribute to the completion of multiple engagement phases. In this role, you will assess/support clients’ security posture, develop recommendations to enhance their programs and technologies, and implement recommendations outlined in master plans. This role blends technical capabilities with analysis and technical support.

The role requires a wide range of duties, including onsite/online assessments, compliance and standards reviews, security architecture analyses, plan development, and technology implementation and integration. The role also supporting our Industrial Cyber Security Lead in analysis, risk management workshops, as well as the ability to write a customer maturity analysis.  

The Industrial Cybersecurity Analyst demonstrates capabilities with minimal level of oversight from more senior level professionals. The scope and size of projects they contribute to are generally medium to large or they may own a small to moderate portion of a larger project. 

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Strategic Advisory & Lifecycle Resiliency Services are an integrated portfolio of strategic consulting and operation resiliency services that apply across the client’s entire investment-to-operations lifecycle commitments. Included are Strategic Advisory, Industrial Cybersecurity, and Operating Assets.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Consulting and Implementation Capabilities:

• Assess people, process, and technical dimensions of client cybersecurity posture.

• Develops and write master plans that combine analyses, reviews, and recommendations of client industrial cyber programs, technologies, and networks.

• Assist workshops, data collection, tabletop exercises and client interviews.

• Assist asset and vulnerability scanning of customer networks, including the installation of scanning and monitoring technologies.

• Assist walk-downs of client sites to assess cyber and physical security postures.

• Applies industrial cybersecurity standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., NERC CIP, NIST, IE62443) to customer programs.

• Assist technical (e.g., segmentation, hardening, technology integration) and programmatic (e.g., policies, response plans) implementation of master plans and recommendations.

• Contributes to quality review on own engagements.

• Develop applicable knowledge bases by using best practices to redefine tools and techniques.  Outline specific performance measures, targets, and goals to articulate the business case for realized efficiencies or added value.

• Challenge client’s current strategy and direction through persuasive discussions. Define competitive advantage and achievable value to the client through use of the strategic change components and metrics. Formulate issue-based hypotheses and develop analytical plan for testing. Contribute to analysis of impact of strategic changes by defining linkages and interdependencies. 

• Utilize specialized knowledge to produce complex work products and solutions across all phases of an engagement.

• Anticipate and resolve technical problems with minimal technical assistance from others.

• Develop, present, and defend conclusions, recommendations, and implementation plans.

• Identify technical issues impacting an engagement and proposes solutions.

• Analyze and apply best practices knowledge of the industry.

• Contribute to the development of service packages as part of the team’s service offerings.

Management Responsibilities

Individual Contributor

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience

• 7+ years experience in a business/consulting environment

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at customer sites

• Proven experience with OT penetration testing and/or red teaming

• Experience with OT Security-by-design and/or new OT in construction

• Proven ability to install monitoring technologies (e.g., Nozomi, Dragos, Tenable, Claroty)

• Experience scoping technical projects.

• Proven ability to assess security architectures of OT networks.

• Direct experience in planning and facilitating risk workshops, table-top exercises, and other client-facing work sessions.

• Experience conducting maturity and technical assessments.

• Proven team leadership and management experience

• Graduate degree preferred.

Certifications

• Other relevant cybersecurity certifications (e.g., Nozomi, Fortinet, Dragos, Tenable) – preferred

• CompTIA Security+ SANS Certificate in relevant to OT Cyber Security such as GICSP, GICP, ACS, GSEC, GRID, GCIH, CEH, CISM

• CISSP

• ISA/IEC 62443 suite of certifications

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Office environment with a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office and 2 days remote) or client site 

• Work involves frequent finger/hand manipulation in using a keyboard and mouse.

• Work may involve stairs, walking, long moments of standing.

Salary Plan

CST: Consulting

Job Grade

004

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