Jr OT Cybersecurity Engineer

Your impact

Are you an early-career cybersecurity professional interested in protecting the critical infrastructure that keeps our world running? Are you passionate about technology, industrial systems, and cybersecurity? At Jacobs, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your technical expertise while working alongside experienced professionals to secure Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) across a variety of industries.

As a Junior OT/ICS Cybersecurity Engineer, you’ll support the assessment, design, implementation, and maintenance of cybersecurity solutions for industrial environments. Working with experienced cybersecurity engineers, you’ll help identify vulnerabilities, evaluate security risks, and implement solutions that protect critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats.

You’ll gain exposure to industry cybersecurity standards such as NIST, NERC CIP, and IEC 62443 while collaborating with engineering, SCADA, instrumentation, and controls teams. This role offers opportunities to develop hands-on experience with industrial networks, security technologies, and cybersecurity assessments across Jacobs’ infrastructure projects.

At Jacobs, we’re building a more connected and sustainable world. Join our team and develop your career while helping secure the systems that support essential infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Support senior cybersecurity engineers in evaluating, testing, and securing OT/ICS and SCADA environments.
• Assist with cybersecurity assessments, vulnerability identification, risk analysis, and documentation of findings.
• Support the design and implementation of secure OT networks in accordance with industry cybersecurity standards and best practices.
• Assist with the configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of network and security technologies, including firewalls, switches, servers, and virtual machines.
• Participate in OT network monitoring, security reviews, and cybersecurity risk assessments.
• Help develop technical documentation, assessment reports, and recommended security improvements.
• Collaborate with SCADA, instrumentation, controls, and engineering teams to support secure integration of industrial systems.
• Assist with cybersecurity incident investigations, including data collection and preliminary analysis.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity tools and technologies used to protect industrial environments.
• Participate in project site visits to assess and support ICS networks and security infrastructure.
• Learn and apply cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and methodologies relevant to industrial