IT/OT L2 Cybersecurity Monitoring Specialist (ICS/OT)

Location: Bucharest, Romania; hybrid remote/office

Company

hirify.global develops energy technologies for reliable, sustainable, and digital power infrastructure across more than 90 countries.

What you will do

• Monitor, triage, prioritize, and investigate security alerts across enterprise IT and industrial OT environments supporting HVDC stations.
• Perform L2 analysis of complex alerts, determine scope and impact, distinguish true positives from false positives, and drive incidents toward containment and resolution.
• Correlate endpoint, network, SIEM, EDR/XDR, NDR, and ICS/OT data to reconstruct event timelines and identify root causes.
• Develop and tune detection content, correlation rules, analytics, alerts, SOC playbooks, runbooks, and escalation procedures.
• Conduct threat hunting, document investigations, maintain case records, and provide clear incident handovers.
• Collaborate with OT engineering and operations teams while ensuring security actions preserve operational continuity and safety.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, including SOC, incident response, monitoring, or detection work at an L2 level.
• Strong knowledge of endpoint, network, identity, infrastructure, operating system, and network traffic security across Windows and Linux.
• Practical experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, and NDR tools; Splunk experience is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of attack techniques, incident lifecycle, log analysis, cybersecurity frameworks, and standards including IEC 62443, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and NIS2.
• Exposure to ICS/OT environments such as PLC, HMI, SCADA, DCS, and industrial networking; knowledge of Modbus, PROFINET, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-104, OPC UA, or EtherNet/IP is beneficial.
• Fluent English required. Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and incident-response skills are expected.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with OT, HVDC, power transmission, or electrical grid environments.
• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work from the Bucharest office and remotely.
• Training opportunities and professional development.
• Meal tickets, medical subscription, private pension, wellbeing initiatives, and Bookster access.
• Inclusive, international environment with colleagues from more than 130 nationalities.