Cyber Security Consultant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in Energy, Utilities, or Transport, gained in consulting, industry, or both.
• Familiarity with relevant industry frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK TTPs, NIST CSF, and CIS Controls.
• Strong grounding in cyber security, technology risk, operational resilience, security architecture, or a closely related field.
• A relevant cyber security, architecture, resilience, or risk qualification; experience in Industrial Control Systems is particularly sought. Examples include OT/ICS cybersecurity, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), CISA, or GIAC.
• Experience engaging senior client or business stakeholders and translating complex issues into clear decisions and practical action.
• Experience originating, shaping, selling, or expanding consulting or professional-services work.
• A record of leading significant client engagements, workstreams, or multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to work across business, operational, and technical audiences.
• Experience with complex technology estates, third-party dependencies, legacy environments, or operational technology.
• Commercial judgment to qualify opportunities, shape proportionate responses, and maintain a clear path from client need to delivery.
• Leadership capability appropriate to a Managing Consultant, including developing others, mobilizing expertise, and taking responsibility for client-outcome quality.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries and build effective teams around opportunities or engagements.

Nice To Haves

• Direct cryptography or specialist delivery experience.
• Experience in or with a senior security, resilience, technology, or critical-infrastructure role.
• Consulting experience combined with time in industry.
• Experience with cryptographic readiness, crypto-agility, trust architecture, or technology migration.
• Experience in critical-infrastructure cyber security across IT and operational technology.
• Experience working with engineering, infrastructure, or technology partners.
• Experience creating assessments, strategies, roadmaps, or transformation programs that lead to implementation.
• An established network in the US Energy/Utilities or Transport market.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in US Utilities and/or Transport organizations.
• Apply practical sector insight to discussions about cyber security, resilience, critical infrastructure, and emerging technology risk.
• Identify and shape client opportunities from initial conversations through qualification, proposal, and delivery.
• Contribute to growth of the US Digital Trust & Cyber Security business, including opportunities arising through PA’s collaboration with Jacobs.
• Help clients assess the relevance of post-quantum cryptography to their organization, critical services, technology estate, and supply chain.
• Shape and lead PQC-readiness work, including executive briefings, readiness assessments, prioritization, roadmaps, and follow-on activity.
• Apply security-architecture thinking to cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology and supplier dependencies, and migration sequencing.
• Coordinate sector, business, and operational context with specialist cryptography, security architecture, OT, resilience, and transformation expertise across PA and Jacobs.
• Provide senior oversight of delivery, keeping teams focused on client outcomes, quality, and practical recommendations.
• Lead consulting teams and establish clear roles for specialist, delivery, and junior colleagues.
• Contribute to propositions, market perspectives, and reusable approaches that support client engagement and commercial opportunities.
• Support account and pursuit teams with sector insight, qualification, solution shaping, proposals, and senior client discussions.
• Develop colleagues and help build a sustainable US capability in critical-infrastructure cyber security and PQC.