Description
We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Operational Technology (OT) Security team at Target. As a Lead Engineer, you will operate, integrate, automate, and scale OT security across Target's global supply chain and retail sites. You will own the engineering and day-to-day operation of Target's OT security platform, developing automation to distribute findings to operational teams and working across security and engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own the engineering, configuration, and day-to-day operation of the OT Security platform
- Expand and maintain sensor and collector coverage and health across OT environments
- Build OT asset discovery, reconciliation, classification, and enrichment
- Monitor and improve platform data quality
- Take in, normalize, correlate, and enrich findings and other OT exposure data
- Own secure configuration for OT
- Develop shared engineering requirements and technical patterns
- Document and track exceptions and compensating controls
- Give OT-specific triage, remediation guidance, and closure validation
- Build and maintain OT Security platform integrations and automation
- Contribute to security engineering consultations
- Reduce toil for the team and OT operations partners
- Manage OT security vendor relationships
- Mentor other engineers
Requirements:
- 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Experience securing OT/ICS environments
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating an OT asset visibility and exposure platform
- Strong understanding of OT/ICS fundamentals
- Working knowledge of industrial protocols
- Experience with OT asset inventory, vulnerability and exposure management, and secure-configuration baselines
- Scripting and automation skills in at least one language
- Experience running production platforms with change management, monitoring, and continuous-improvement practices
- Working knowledge of OT network segmentation, DMZs, jump hosts, and vendor remote access
- Understanding of the current OT threat landscape
- Strong cross-functional partner skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have: experience with Kafka, BigQuery, PowerBI, Terraform, CI/CD, or GitHub Actions