[Hiring] Operational Technology Incident Response Consultant @Sophos

Role Description

As an Operational Technology (OT) Incident Response Consultant, you will play a critical role in protecting industrial environments from evolving cyber threats. You will lead the investigation and response to security incidents affecting industrial control systems (ICS) and OT networks, working closely with customers to identify threats, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience. This role combines incident response, threat hunting, security monitoring, detection engineering, and advisory capabilities. You will serve as a trusted technical expert, helping organizations maintain the safety, reliability, and security of their operational environments while continuously enhancing their cyber defense posture.

What You Will Do

• Incident Response & Threat Investigation
  • Investigate and respond to high-severity OT security incidents.
  • Perform root cause analysis to determine threat origin, attack scope, and affected assets.
  • Conduct threat analysis across industrial environments.
  • Analyze network traffic, system logs, and security events to identify malicious activity and attack patterns.
  • Research emerging threat actors, attack campaigns, and OT-specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Detection Engineering & Security Monitoring
  • Develop and enhance OT-specific detection use cases and threat detection procedures.
  • Tune and optimize alerts generated by OT security controls to improve detection accuracy and reduce noise.
  • Correlate information from security platforms, threat intelligence feeds, network telemetry, and other data sources.
  • Support the implementation and continuous improvement of SIEM monitoring strategies, escalation workflows, and alerting mechanisms.
• OT Security Consulting & Advisory
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) during OT cybersecurity incidents and security engagements.
  • Provide technical recommendations for remediation, mitigation, and risk reduction.
  • Support customers in strengthening their OT cyber security programs, processes, and operational procedures.
  • Assist with the design and implementation of proactive OT security controls and monitoring capabilities.
  • Contribute to the development of new security capabilities, tools, and automation initiatives.
  • Stay current with OT security trends, vulnerabilities, defensive technologies, and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience working in cybersecurity, incident response, security operations or threat detection environments.
• Desirable to have a minimum of 2 years of experience supporting industrial control systems such as PLCs, RTUs, DCS, SIS, SCADA, HMI, MES, or Historians.
• Understanding of OT and ICS architectures and operational environments.
• Experience investigating security incidents and performing root cause analysis.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM technologies, event monitoring, detection use cases, alert tuning, escalation workflows, and threat intelligence.
• Experience analyzing firewall logs, IDS/IPS events, system logs, network telemetry, and security events.
• Solid understanding of network protocols including TCP/IP and UDP.
• Familiarity with industrial communication protocols such as Modbus, DNP3 and other specific ICS protocols.
• Understanding of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture model.
• Ability to conduct network traffic analysis and identify indicators of compromise in OT environments.
• Understanding of cyber threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Experience with vulnerability analysis, threat research, and security investigations.
• Ability to communicate in English.

Requirements

• Willingness to participate in shift work including nights, weekends and holidays (our MDR service is 24x7x365).

Benefits

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach.
• Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit.
• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy.
• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities.
• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint.
• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp.
• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge.
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing.