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Cybersecurity Lead Engineer

Schneider Electric
1 year ago
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You will be part of a Schneider Electric Process Automation organization, which operates in industrial automation world. As IT and OT converge in industry, Cybersecurity is becoming an active workfield in the Project Delivery organization. What will you do? Design and implement cybersecure industrial control and safety systems, on a broad range of industries, including Oil & Gas plants. Projects will be both “green-field” projects, where architecture is designed from scratch, and “brown-field” projects, where we provide cybersecurity upgrade with no plant-downtime over existing industrial systems. As part of a project team, you will be measured on project margins, on-time delivery, quality of the deliverables and customer satisfaction. You will be the cybersecurity engineer in an existing team of automation specialists and engineers. You are expected to be already proficient in cybersecurity implementations and to be an open team-player, in order to share your knowledge in your colleagues. It is a chance to shine, and become a leader a new, fast-growing market. What qualifications will make you successful? At least 5 years experience in a similar project role; Bachelor of Science or above, possibly in IT field; Languages: Spanish and excellent English both written and spoken; Travel availability to customers sites (up to 50%) Secure TCP/IP Networks design & implementation: -Firewalls configuration (brands: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Hirschmann) -TCP/IP network protocols Active Directory administration; Hyper-V Virtualization implementation; One of the following certifications: -SA/IEC Cybersecurity Expert, -Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP), -Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), -Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), -Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

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