EYGDS Cyber - CAOE - Manager - AI IT OT Network and Infrastructure Security
About this role
Key responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of network and infrastructure security strategies across enterprise, cloud, and OT environments.
- Drive adoption of Zero Trust, IEC 62443-aligned OT security controls, and advanced segmentation architectures.
- Oversee deployment and governance of NGFW, NAC, VPN, ZTNA, SASE,DNS security, CASB, and CSPM solutions.
- Lead incident response and security improvement initiatives to enhance cyber resilience across hybrid infrastructure.
- Provide strategic guidance on secure remote access, DMZ architecture, PLC security, and cloud network protection.
- Design and implement AI-assisted IT/OT security architecture and operations, enabling predictive threat monitoring and automated response within industrial environments.
- Develop and deploy AI-driven anomaly detection models to identify deviations in OT network traffic, process behaviors, and industrial protocols (e.g., Modbus, DNP3, OPC).
- Build AI-based rule optimization frameworks for IT/OT security controls, improving traffic filtering, segmentation policies, and alert accuracy.
- Leverage AI for OT network traffic optimization, enabling intelligent routing, congestion minimization, and adaptive policy enforcement.
- Implement AI-powered device behavior profiling, establishing baselines for PLCs, HMIs, and IoT/IIoT assets to detect unauthorized or abnormal activities.
- Apply AI in PLC code analysis and review, identifying logic anomalies, misconfigurations, and potential security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems.
- Utilize AI/ML for network threat detection, including intrusion detection, lateral movement analysis, and zero-day attack identification in IT/OT environments.
- Design and optimize prompt engineering strategies to effectively leverage GenAI tools for IT/OT security use cases such as incident investigation, log analysis, and threat intelligence enrichment.
- Enable AI-driven continuous monitoring and predictive risk analytics to enhance IT/OT resilience and reduce operational downtime.
- Build reusable methods, accelerators, reference architectures, and runbooks that strengthen the firm’s AI Network & Infrastructure Security offerings and improve repeatability across sectors and accounts.
- Manage client expectations, delivery scope, solution quality, risks, and technical escalations while coaching teams and enabling long-term client capability through documentation and knowledge transfer.
Required qualifications
- 8–12 years of experience across AI driven Network & Infrastructure security domain, Security architecture, OT security, Zero Trust Security, or related fields.
- Experience with OT security tools (Nozomi, Claroty, Armis, Dragos, Cisco Cyber Vision) and OT vulnerability management.
- Expertise in XDR, Zero Trust, and regulatory frameworks (IEC 62443, CIS). Hands-on with NGFWs (Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, Azure Firewall) and VMware virtualization security.
- Skilled in SSE/SASE platforms (Netskope, Zscaler, Akamai) and secure access technologies (VPN, ZTNA, DNS security).
- Strong capability in multi-vendor security integration across IT, OT, and cloud environments.
- Strong client-facing communication and the ability to operate as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Good soft skills i.e. verbal & written communication, technical document writing etc
- Strong project management, negotiation and interpersonal skills
- Prior experience working in Advisory or Technology Consulting industry
- Customer orientation skills
- Industry related certification (e.g. CISSP, CISA, CISM, SABSA, PRINCE2, TOGAF)
- Vendor related certifications (e.g. Zscaler, Nozomi, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco & others)
Why join us
Join a globally connected cybersecurity practice helping clients protect their network & infra structure security portfolio in an AI-driven world. You will work at the intersection of IT/OT Network , Infrastructure security, and frontier AI — helping shape practical, scalable solutions that reduce risk, enable trust, and support secure business transformation. This is consistent with the internal positioning of the network & infrastructure security practice as technology-enabled, consulting-led, and globally delivered.
Typical work environment
- Global, cross-functional teams
- Mix of advisory, architecture, engineering, and delivery
- Exposure to strategic client programs and market-shaping offerings
- Opportunity to build reusable assets, accelerators, and modernization patterns consistent with a global delivery model
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