# Lead Engineer – Operational Technology Security

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Brooklyn Park, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000.00 - $238,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## 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 with OT asset visibility and exposure platforms

- 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

- Experience running production platforms with change management and monitoring

- Working knowledge of OT network segmentation and threat landscape

- Strong cross-functional partner skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- OT/ICS security
- security engineering
- infrastructure engineering
- platform engineering
- industrial protocols
- scripting
- automation
- network segmentation
- threat landscape

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- BigQuery
- PowerBI
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions

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