Senior Operational Technology Security Analyst

Overview:

The LP3 OT Security Analyst is a critical mission role that secures and monitors industrial control systems (ICS), manufacturing systems, and other mission-critical OT environments. Working closely with GRC, IT Security, engineering, and operations teams, this role implements and operationalizes security controls, compliance requirements, and risk mitigation strategies. The analyst leverages Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), and integrated telemetry to provide centralized threat detection, monitoring, and incident response across IT and OT systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and defend OT/ICS environments by analyzing network traffic, logs, alerts, and telemetry to detect threats, anomalies, and indicators of compromise.
• Conduct threat hunting, incident triage, forensic analysis, and support incident response and recovery across industrial networks.
• Perform OT-focused vulnerability assessments, identify security weaknesses in ICS architectures and control systems, and validate remediation efforts.
• Implement, maintain, and optimize OT security controls, including network segmentation, intrusion detection systems, access controls, and security monitoring capabilities.
• Collaborate with GRC teams to align OT security controls with compliance requirements such as CMMC and NIST 800-171, providing technical evidence for audits and assessments.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to support secure OT system design, maintain operational resilience, and ensure system integrity and safety.
• Develop and maintain detection rules, dashboards, runbooks, playbooks, and response procedures while incorporating threat intelligence to continuously improve OT security posture.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in cybersecurity, with exposure to OT/ICS environments. OR (6) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience monitoring and responding to security events in SIEM platforms
• Knowledge of: Network security fundamentals and segmentation, Incident response and threat detection and experience with OT security platforms
• Hands on technical experience protecting OT/ICS systems
• US Citizenship

Desired Experience:

• Experience performing NIST-based security or technology risk assessments
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, Security+, or similar credentials
• Experience with: Security monitoring and detection engineering, Incident response and forensic analysis, Experience in Microsoft GCC High environments, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), OT monitoring platforms

Ideal Candidate:

This position is best filled by a self-motivated individual desiring to move up into more challenging positions working enterprise scale systems in high security environments. You need to work with a team as well as independently. This unique position requires backbone, perspective, excellent verbal and written communication skills, leadership as well as sound security technical expertise. This is an opportunity for a skilled individual to truly make a difference in National Security on a global scale. Apply to LP3 today.

Why LP3:

LP3 protects America with innovative cyber security and data science solutions. We secure government and commercial businesses delivering military-grade solutions to help our clients maintain confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience over time. We solve hard challenges with innovative and cost effective integrated solutions enabling the customer to meet their mission and business objectives.

We protect America by keeping critical IT and mission operations running securely in government, business, and non-profit organizations. Think about what absolutely cannot fail in the organization—that’s what we protect.

LP3 also takes care of our people; most employees have been with us for 5 years or more. People matter to us. They are the core engine of our ability to help our clients succeed in complex global missions.

Company Profile:

LP3 has been providing mission critical services in the Defense Information Base, DoW, and Intelligence Community for over 20 years protecting and analyzing our nation’s most sensitive information. LP3 expanded delivering innovative cyber security solutions to businesses now. Services include, cyber, network architecture, AI, data science, SCRM, and many others.

We protect America by taking existing cyber and data solutions, quickly bundling them with new innovations, and creatively configure bridges to deliver advanced capability rapidly. Our experienced engineers use an agile “loose federation” approach to quickly plug services and tools together delivering innovative and adaptive results to clients much faster.

Benefits Offered:

Medical (including family), Dental, Vision, 401k match with 100% vesting from day 1, technical training, flexible work schedule, PTO, plus all Federal holidays.