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This is an exciting opportunity to join WSP’s Critical & Emerging Technology team within the national Transit & Rail practice. This role focuses on delivering OT cybersecurity engineering, assessments, supplier/OEM compliance reviews, and architecture support for transit and rail systems including CBTC, SCADA, PTC, traction power, fleet charging, and safety-critical infrastructure.
This may include safeguarding systems such as signaling, SCADA, traction power, and fleet charging infrastructure, while championing the adoption and strategies to future proof our clients to test and validate emerging technologies that enhance safety, reliability, and performance. While it is critical for the candidate to thoroughly understand and contribute to the latest cyber standards (NIST, ISO, IEC, and FTA), the role requires the individual to lead engaging conversations with our clients about what the future of transit may hold and how best to prepare. The role will work closely with our established WSP US Properties & Buildings Cybersecurity team as well as the global WSP Cybersecurity community. Deep cybersecurity expertise within the Transportation sector can be found in our global team.
This position may be based out of any mutually agreed upon East Coast Office with New York, NY as a preferred location.
Your Impact
Core Technical Responsibilities
- Conduct OT cybersecurity risk assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability evaluations aligned with IEC 62443, TS 50701, NIST 800‑82/53, and relevant transit/rail standards.
- Review supplier/OEM cybersecurity documentation such as SSPs, IRAs, DCRAs, zoning/conduit models, SBOM/HBOM, and patch management plans.
- Support secure OT system and network architecture development including segmentation, DMZ design, boundary protection, and access control strategies.
- Assist with OT asset inventory, system baselining, and network visibility activities to improve cybersecurity situational awareness.
- Develop and recommend mitigation strategies, corrective actions, and cybersecurity controls for identified risks and vulnerabilities.
- Support cybersecurity testing, commissioning, and configuration validation for OT systems, including controllers, network devices, and field hardware.
Project Support Responsibilities
- Contribute to cybersecurity procurement documentation including scopes, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Support development of cybersecurity master plans, monitoring strategies, and operational security documentation.
- Participate in OT tabletop exercises and incident response activities in coordination with client teams.
Collaboration & Coordination
- Work collaboratively with engineering, systems integration, operations, and safety teams across project life cycles.
- Provide clear technical documentation and contribute to stakeholder communication as required.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, or a related field.
- 7-10+ years of OT cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years in transit, rail, or critical infrastructure environments.
- Hands-on experience with rail/transit OT systems (CBTC, SCADA, PLCs, traction power, tunnel ventilation, fire/life safety, fleet charging, V2I/V2X, and related systems).
- Deep knowledge of relevant cybersecurity standards including IEC 62443, TS50701, IEC 63452, NIST 800‑82/53, ISO frameworks, UNECE, TS, and APTA guidelines.
- Demonstrated expertise in threat modeling, penetration testing, and OT network security; experience securing OTA, remote diagnostics, and air-gapped environments.
- Familiarity with OT security tools and monitoring technologies (e.g., Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos, protocol analysis tools).
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, GICSP, ISA/IEC, and/or CompTIA Security+.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical writing skills for client-facing environments.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity-related compliance for U.S. transit regulatory bodies (FTA, FRA, TSA).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across disciplines, delivering cybersecurity solutions in complex operational environments.
- Understanding of OT logging, telemetry, and secure event collection requirements used to support monitoring, detection, and incident response.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in systems engineering or cybersecurity.
- Demonstrated success in management consulting or advisory roles.
- Long-standing experience in the cybersecurity sector with a preference within the Transportation market.
- Successful candidates will be able to confidently speak, lead client-facing meetings, and attend prominent industry committees.
- Deep experience with rail communications networks related to OT threats and vulnerabilities. Specifically, system familiarity should include SCADA, PLCs, and industrial systems used in transit infrastructure.
- Specific examples and lessons learned from cybersecurity projects showcasing understanding of the latest frameworks and standards, threat detection and prevention best practices.
- Knowledge of secure development lifecycle and supply-chain cybersecurity practices (e.g., IEC 62443‑4‑1, firmware integrity, component assurance).
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $102,300-$185,000.
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
This Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join WSP’s Critical & Emerging Technology team within the national Transit & Rail practice. This role focuses on delivering OT cybersecurity engineering, assessments, supplier/OEM compliance reviews, and architecture support for transit and rail systems including CBTC, SCADA, PTC, traction power, fleet charging, and safety-critical infrastructure.
This may include safeguarding systems such as signaling, SCADA, traction power, and fleet charging infrastructure, while championing the adoption and strategies to future proof our clients to test and validate emerging technologies that enhance safety, reliability, and performance. While it is critical for the candidate to thoroughly understand and contribute to the latest cyber standards (NIST, ISO, IEC, and FTA), the role requires the individual to lead engaging conversations with our clients about what the future of transit may hold and how best to prepare. The role will work closely with our established WSP US Properties & Buildings Cybersecurity team as well as the global WSP Cybersecurity community. Deep cybersecurity expertise within the Transportation sector can be found in our global team.
This position may be based out of any mutually agreed upon East Coast Office with New York, NY as a preferred location.
Your Impact
Core Technical Responsibilities
- Conduct OT cybersecurity risk assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability evaluations aligned with IEC 62443, TS 50701, NIST 800‑82/53, and relevant transit/rail standards.
- Review supplier/OEM cybersecurity documentation such as SSPs, IRAs, DCRAs, zoning/conduit models, SBOM/HBOM, and patch management plans.
- Support secure OT system and network architecture development including segmentation, DMZ design, boundary protection, and access control strategies.
- Assist with OT asset inventory, system baselining, and network visibility activities to improve cybersecurity situational awareness.
- Develop and recommend mitigation strategies, corrective actions, and cybersecurity controls for identified risks and vulnerabilities.
- Support cybersecurity testing, commissioning, and configuration validation for OT systems, including controllers, network devices, and field hardware.
Project Support Responsibilities
- Contribute to cybersecurity procurement documentation including scopes, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Support development of cybersecurity master plans, monitoring strategies, and operational security documentation.
- Participate in OT tabletop exercises and incident response activities in coordination with client teams.
Collaboration & Coordination
- Work collaboratively with engineering, systems integration, operations, and safety teams across project life cycles.
- Provide clear technical documentation and contribute to stakeholder communication as required.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, cybersecurity, computer science, or a related field.
- 7-10+ years of OT cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years in transit, rail, or critical infrastructure environments.
- Hands-on experience with rail/transit OT systems (CBTC, SCADA, PLCs, traction power, tunnel ventilation, fire/life safety, fleet charging, V2I/V2X, and related systems).
- Deep knowledge of relevant cybersecurity standards including IEC 62443, TS50701, IEC 63452, NIST 800‑82/53, ISO frameworks, UNECE, TS, and APTA guidelines.
- Demonstrated expertise in threat modeling, penetration testing, and OT network security; experience securing OTA, remote diagnostics, and air-gapped environments.
- Familiarity with OT security tools and monitoring technologies (e.g., Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos, protocol analysis tools).
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, GICSP, ISA/IEC, and/or CompTIA Security+.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical writing skills for client-facing environments.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity-related compliance for U.S. transit regulatory bodies (FTA, FRA, TSA).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across disciplines, delivering cybersecurity solutions in complex operational environments.
- Understanding of OT logging, telemetry, and secure event collection requirements used to support monitoring, detection, and incident response.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in systems engineering or cybersecurity.
- Demonstrated success in management consulting or advisory roles.
- Long-standing experience in the cybersecurity sector with a preference within the Transportation market.
- Successful candidates will be able to confidently speak, lead client-facing meetings, and attend prominent industry committees.
- Deep experience with rail communications networks related to OT threats and vulnerabilities. Specifically, system familiarity should include SCADA, PLCs, and industrial systems used in transit infrastructure.
- Specific examples and lessons learned from cybersecurity projects showcasing understanding of the latest frameworks and standards, threat detection and prevention best practices.
- Knowledge of secure development lifecycle and supply-chain cybersecurity practices (e.g., IEC 62443‑4‑1, firmware integrity, component assurance).
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $102,300-$185,000.
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Target critical infrastructure sectors
Energy, utilities, manufacturing, and defense contractors are the most active OT sponsors. These industries face acute talent shortages and have established legal teams familiar with H-1B petitions, making them more willing to sponsor qualified international candidates.
Align your degree to the role explicitly
OT roles span engineering, cybersecurity, and systems integration. Make sure your application clearly connects your degree field to the specific OT discipline. A mismatch between your credentials and the job description is a common reason for H-1B denial.
Highlight OT-specific certifications
Credentials like GICSP, CSSA, or vendor-specific certifications from Siemens or Rockwell Automation strengthen your H-1B petition by demonstrating specialized knowledge. USCIS scrutinizes OT roles heavily, so evidence of specialization helps establish specialty occupation status.
Clarify the IT/OT convergence angle
Many employers now hire for IT/OT convergence roles bridging industrial control systems and enterprise networks. Framing your background this way broadens your sponsoring employer pool significantly, since both traditional manufacturers and cybersecurity-focused firms actively petition for this skillset.
Ask about O-1 if you have a strong track record
Senior OT professionals with published research, conference presentations, or notable incident response experience may qualify for an O-1A visa. Unlike the H-1B, O-1 has no lottery and no annual cap, making it a viable path if you've missed H-1B selection.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsors
Not every employer posting OT roles is prepared to sponsor visas. Migrate Mate filters job listings to show only employers with confirmed sponsorship history, saving you from applying to positions where immigration support isn't actually available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Operational Technology roles qualify as specialty occupations for H-1B purposes?
Most OT engineering and OT security roles qualify as specialty occupations because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as electrical engineering, computer science, or industrial control systems. USCIS has scrutinized some OT titles where job duties overlap with general IT support, so your employer's petition should clearly document that the role requires specialized theoretical and practical knowledge beyond general IT skills.
Which visa types are most common for OT professionals?
The H-1B visa is the most common sponsorship path for OT engineers and security analysts. Senior professionals with documented expertise, publications, or significant project leadership may qualify for an O-1A. Canadians and Mexicans working in systems engineering or network administration roles may also qualify under the TN visa, which requires no lottery and can be processed at the border.
What degree does an OT engineer typically need for H-1B sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or industrial engineering is the standard baseline. Degrees in information technology or cybersecurity are also accepted when the role is OT security focused. Three years of directly relevant work experience can substitute for one year of formal education under USCIS equivalency rules, which matters if your degree is in a related but not identical field.
How can I find OT jobs that actually sponsor visas?
The majority of OT sponsoring employers are in energy, utilities, defense, and large-scale manufacturing. General job boards don't filter for sponsorship willingness, so you can spend weeks applying to roles where the employer won't sponsor. Migrate Mate is built specifically for international job seekers and shows only roles from employers with a confirmed history of visa sponsorship, which makes your search significantly more efficient.
Does OT security experience help or hurt my H-1B chances compared to general IT?
It helps. OT cybersecurity is a narrower, more specialized discipline than general IT, and USCIS is more likely to approve a petition when the role requires specific expertise in industrial control systems, SCADA environments, or ICS protocols like Modbus or DNP3. General IT roles sometimes face RFEs questioning whether a bachelor's degree is actually required. OT security roles, especially in regulated industries, tend to have a cleaner path to approval.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Operational Technology Ot jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.