Senior Cyber Security Advisor - OT

Senior Cyber Security Advisor – Industrial Control Systems (ICS/OT)

• Salary: £65,000 - £72,000 plus Extensive Benefits Package
• Duration:
  Permanent
• Grade:
  Band 3
• Location:
  
  London, North Greenwich, Pier Walk and remote working (on average 50% time at office location)

Closing date for applications:
Sunday 25th January 29026 @ 23:59

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 9 300 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.

• Provide consultation, advice and guidance to First Line cyber security risk owners and to Second Line Cyber Security team including TfL's Security Operations and Assurance functions and Third Line internal audit teams.
• Consult and advise on the secure design, build, implementation, testing and delivery of systems to ensure the secure operation and ongoing verification and validations of systems.
• Consult and advise stakeholders in assessing, understanding and managing cyber security risks in project and operational systems, including meeting regulatory obligations.
• Consult, advise and develop incident response capability.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of cyber security standards and guidance, architectural patterns and strategies, and the continuous improvement of Cyber Security's internal processes, capabilities and tools.
• Preparing, presenting and/or supporting reports on the current status of cyber security assurance, deliverables, risks and KPIs/KRIs.
• Sponsor, facilitate, support and/or implement cyber security capabilities and improvements to the security and resiliency of technology systems.
• Chair, facilitate and contribute to technology and cyber security governance groups and approval bodies.
• Promote cyber security and contribute to developing a cyber secure culture.
• Provide consultation, advice and guidance on the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations.

• Telecommunications and IP networking.
• Network and computer system architecture, operations and protocols.
• Network infrastructure, system and application architecture and associated cyber security controls.
• Enterprise-level cyber security technologies for use in complex environments.
• Information security management concepts to support solutions and processes.
• Skills in: analytical thinking, identifying many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Highly effective written and verbal communications, employing appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement and demonstrating both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Selecting security controls with meaningful measures to monitor their effectiveness and identify improvements.

• The project delivery and operational lifecycle of Operational Technology systems.
• Time critical, complex and technical environments including safety related systems.
• Creating and reviewing technical engineering designs.
• Creating and reviewing standards, processes and architectural patterns.
• Requirements definition, design and testing.

• Degree level education or equivalent experience, ideally in science, engineering, technology, computing, cyber security or a related field.
• Qualifications and certifications from information security…