Senior Consultant - ICS/OT Cybersecurity
The full posting
At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail, people are immediately at risk. We are the global leader in xOT cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand what is at stake . Here, you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC built on authenticity, transparency, and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family, friends, and community is the kind of work that matters to you, you are in the right place.
About the Role
As a Senior Consultant on the Professional Services team, you’ll be at the forefront of helping industrial organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture. You’ll lead hands-on engagements like architecture reviews, assessments, and custom tabletop exercises - working closely with teams that protect critical infrastructure across the globe. This role blends technical depth with real-world impact: you’ll shape customer strategies, guide them through simulated attack scenarios and turn lessons learned into smarter tools, playbooks and stronger defenses. This role is ideal for those that are passionate about industrial security, thrive in high-growth environments and want to drive meaningful change.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert on a team performing architecture reviews, tabletop exercises and assessments in industrial environments. These engagements include a range of tasks such as documentation review and gap analysis, site walk-downs, and network/host data collection and analysis.
- Contribute to the final delivery of findings and recommendations documents. This includes verbally presenting findings and addressing customer questions.
- Turn insights from customer engagements into research and innovation projects to fuel Dragos technology advancement. This includes the analysis of packet capture (PCAP) and other data types to produce protocol dissectors, characterizations, and other analytics.
- Turn insights from customer engagements into content for the Dragos customer training program.
- Create and facilitate tabletop exercises tailored to customer infrastructures and environments, with detailed scenarios illustrating consequences and effects. Participate in exercises to showcase Dragos capabilities and transfer knowledge that enables customers to respond to real-world attacks.
- Support pre-sales initiatives by providing technical guidance to inform the development of scopes of work for customer engagements.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience working with ICS/OT systems.
- Strong understanding of industrial control systems, devices, instrumentation and communications protocols.
- Experience in target industries such as electric, oil & gas, chemical, manufacturing (eg, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage), utilities, or other critical infrastructure sectors.
- Ability to learn new concepts quickly - whether through formal education, self-study, or mentorship. Appetite for staying current on trends in OT, cybersecurity, and the broader industrial space.
- Experience with technical writing in a professional environment.
- Familiarity with the broader cybersecurity landscape, including SIEM/SOAR, endpoint security, managed service offerings, threat detection, and network monitoring solutions.
- Familiarity with system administration (configuring or maintaining active directory environments), networking (review configuration files and leveraged SSH), operating system hardening, and remote access techniques for assessing client environments
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment and coordinate across distributed teams.
- Willingness to travel up to 30% (domestic and international) to support customer engagements.
Compensation
- Salary: AUD 150,000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
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Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.
Text as Dragos published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 3 questions.
- 1.Do you currently live in Australia?Yes or no
- 2.Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in Australia?Yes or no
- 3.Are you willing to travel for onsite customer engagements? (travel expectations will be discussed in detail during the interview process)Yes or no
Taken from Dragos's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: Dragos
Protects industrial control systems with OT monitoring software, threat intelligence and incident response; staff hunt ICS threats for utilities and manufacturers.
Pay and benefits: Intelligence, consulting and engineering staff positions.
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