Senior Engineering Manager – Operational Technology Security
Job Description:
- Lead, build, and develop a team of Lead Engineers responsible for Target's OT security capabilities
- Establish stakeholder communication, drive requirements, and advocate for safe, efficient, and secure OT engineering practices
- Manage team staffing, operating procedures, tools, systems, coaching, motivation, career development, and performance management
- Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, reviews, on-call hygiene, postmortems, change safety, and operational excellence
- Own end-to-end engineering, deployment, configuration, and operation of OT security platforms and data pipelines
- Operate production platforms, owning availability, performance, observability, coverage, data quality, upgrades, incident response, and on-call coverage
- Manage OT vulnerability and exposure workflows, including intake, normalization, correlation, deduplication, enrichment, and risk prioritization
- Develop and validate secure-configuration hardening patterns and remediation
- Own OT endpoint security eligibility, testing, pilots, deployment, monitoring, rollback, exceptions, and compensating controls
- Provide engineering support for high-risk OT findings and enable infrastructure, site teams, system owners, and vendors to execute changes
- Own OT security APIs, connectors, schemas, transformations, enrichment, reconciliation, routing, and monitoring
- Partner on OT network segmentation, vendor-access controls, identity and access, backup and restore, and operational-context data
- Translate ISA/IEC 62443 requirements into an engineering roadmap and deliver multi-quarter initiatives
- Make build-vs-buy decisions and manage vendor relationships, evaluations, contracts, tool adoption, and sunsetting
- Drive control adoption, onboarding, exception governance, and enablement across OT environments
- Build automation, self-service, and scalable platform capabilities while reducing operational toil
- Consult on new or materially changed OT solutions, including vendor evaluations, design reviews, endpoint compatibility, hardening, vulnerability management, telemetry, and integrations
- Represent roadmap, risk reduction, operational health, and tradeoffs to senior leadership
Requirements:
- 4-year degree OR equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with deep experience in OT and security engineering
- 3+ years managing engineering teams in platform, infrastructure, software development, or OT-context security engineering
- Experience hiring, growing, and retaining senior engineering talent and building team operating models
- Experience with engineering management, including hiring, performance, career growth, on-call culture, code reviews, postmortems, and operational excellence
- Experience running production platforms with service objectives, on-call coverage, change management, and continuous improvement
- Experience driving multi-quarter roadmaps from problem framing through steady-state operation
- Experience making build-vs-buy decisions, managing vendor relationships, and owning tool lifecycles
- Experience leading OT and/or ICS security platforms at scale, such as Claroty XDome, Nozomi, Dragos, Armis, or Tenable OT
- Hands-on familiarity with ISA/IEC 62443, NIST CSF, and NIST SP 800-82
- Experience deploying and operating endpoint security agents on OT-adjacent or constrained endpoints
- Experience building and operating findings pipelines integrating security signals into enterprise remediation/governance platforms
- Experience using diverse security tools and technologies across complex environments
- Hands-on fluency in at least one general-purpose language, such as Python or Go
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, including Terraform, and CI/CD
- Understanding of distribution-center automation, industrial control systems, or vendor-managed OT environments
- Experience or exposure to OT network segmentation, vendor-access controls, and OT backup and recovery
- Strong cross-functional partnership with Security Architecture, BISO, Network Security, OT infrastructure, and site teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation abilities
- Curiosity, bias for action, and builder's mindset
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health benefits, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
- Remote work arrangement with work-from-home or alternate-location options
- Remote team members may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year
- Flexible Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement