Lead Cybersecurity Engineer – Operational Technology full_time

Get on board with the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the UK.

Drive a fast-growing team and help us deliver up-to-the moment content to our customers

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. 

https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs

Where we are now

Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.

https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Lead Cyber Engineer – Operational Technology 

Due to customer demand and increasing maturity within our platform we have an exciting and challenging opportunity for an experienced cyber professional within the Operational Technology (OT) & Industrial Control Systems (ICS) sector – with expertise in both hacking and defending connected devices or embedded hardware – to join our Product team as Lead Cyber Engineer – Operational Technology. 

If successful you will join our Cyber team working closely with our Senior Director of Cyber Threat Research and our Principal Cyber Engineers as we embark on this exciting new phase of product development within our market leading cyber resilience platform.

Your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to evolve and disrupt within the OT & ICS space by creating emulated environments within our platform that will simulate both hacking and defending connected devices in an engaging and intuitive way for our community.

You will be applying your expertise to create practical and theory content to gamify OT & ICS and make it engaging and fun for the end user. You’ll shake up traditional training and teach complex concepts in an innovative way.

If you have an interest in and passion for cyber security, understand the area of OT & ICS, and want to disrupt how employees learn about this technology we will appreciate your input and give you the space to innovate as we build an exciting new product within our market leading platform.

Your main responsibilities (we’re scaling fast, so these may change as we grow):

• Researching OT & ICS, cybersecurity, technology and technical concepts to understand and translate to a non-technical audience across firms.

• Work closely with our enterprise partners, clients and the community at a strategic level, gathering information to influence product development

• Work with the Product Leadership to define a roadmap & build out a curriculum of content that our community can use to engage with ICS & OT in our platform

• Collaborate with a dynamic team of cyber and software engineers to support you in the creation and delivery of this content

• You will take complex concepts and teach them in a straightforward and engaging way to a varied audience via multi-format content utilizing various teaching methods; written, exercises, questions and gamification.

• Use gamification and game creation to educate, ‘telling stories’ through technology – if you’ve created gamified e-learning material before then that’s a bonus

You should apply if you have ​​(we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role):

• Deep knowledge of OT, IoT or Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and a number of years of hands on experience with OT and ICS. You would also have a broader experience and background within another discipline of cyber security such as Red Teaming, Blue Teaming or Cloud Security 

• Able to think strategically and have commercial awareness around trends in the OT & ICS space

• Clear decision making and able to work to deadlines – this will be a new product within our platform that will delight our customers 

• Clear, accurate and articulate English writing skills – you’re confident presenting to and engaging with technical and non-tech audiences

• Able to set technical direction and support others to achieve. You will be someone that can mentor and share knowledge to upksill those you collaborate within OT over time.

• A proven collaborator you are able to work at pace in a dynamic team of cyber engineers, software engineers and product professionals to deliver our content roadmap 

Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do, here’s how they relate to this role:

• Driven – We are innovators and market-creators, constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.

• Inclusive – We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees, customers and partners, everyone has opportunities to thrive.

• Customer Obsessed – We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.

• One Team – We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.

If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.

As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave +  2 volunteering days and your birthday off

• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, private healthcare plan and more

• Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund

• Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours

• Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working

• We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and sports clubs. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms

• When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike

Find out more at https://careers.immersivelabs.com

Cyber threats wait for no one and neither should you. Apply now!