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# Lead OT Cyber Security Consultants / Architects - UK wide

- **Company:** Avanti Recruitment
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, High-Level Architecture, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Network Segmentation, Remote Access Technology, Process Control Systems
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/lead-ot-cyber-security-consultants-architects--uk-wide/57399969

## About the Role

You should have:

 * Strong experience designing and delivering OT security architecture.
 * Knowledge of industrial control systems, SCADA, PLCs, RTUs and OT networks.
 * Experience within complex, regulated or safety-critical operational environments.
 * Practical knowledge of segmentation, zones and conduits, secure remote access, monitoring and IT/OT convergence.
 * Experience producing target-state architectures, high-level designs, detailed designs and implementation roadmaps.
 * Knowledge of recognised OT security standards and regulatory frameworks.
 * Experience with OT asset-discovery, monitoring or threat-detection technologies.
 * The ability to explain complex technical risks to engineering and senior business stakeholders.
 * Previous consultancy, advisory or client-facing delivery experience., * OT Consultant
 * NSCS CAF
 * Operational Technology
 * OT Architect

## Description

You will:

 * Design target-state security architectures across OT, ICS and SCADA environments.
 * Define network segmentation, zoning and secure IT/OT integration patterns.
 * Develop secure remote-access, identity, monitoring and asset-visibility solutions.
 * Translate cyber risks into architecture requirements, controls and delivery roadmaps.
 * Lead OT security workstreams from initial assessment through to implementation.
 * Review technical designs and provide architecture assurance.
 * Advise engineering, operational, security and senior business stakeholders.
 * Support technology selection while balancing security, safety and operational continuity.
 * Lead technical workshops and collaborate with multidisciplinary delivery teams.


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