Senior Engineering Manager – Operational Technology Security

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and nurture a team of Lead Engineers accountable for Target's operational technology (OT) security capabilities.

• Foster stakeholder communication, manage requirements, and champion safe, efficient, and secure practices in OT engineering.

• Oversee team staffing, operational procedures, tools, systems, coaching, motivation, career growth, and performance evaluation.

• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, reviews, on-call practices, postmortems, change safety, and operational excellence.

• Take ownership of the complete engineering, deployment, configuration, and operation of OT security platforms and data pipelines.

• Manage production platforms, ensuring availability, performance, observability, coverage, data quality, upgrades, incident response, and on-call support.

• Supervise OT vulnerability and exposure workflows, encompassing intake, normalization, correlation, deduplication, enrichment, and risk prioritization.

• Create and validate secure configuration hardening patterns and remediation strategies.

• Manage OT endpoint security eligibility, testing, pilots, deployment, monitoring, rollback, exceptions, and compensating controls.

• Provide engineering assistance for high-risk OT findings and empower infrastructure, site teams, system owners, and vendors to implement changes.

• Oversee OT security APIs, connectors, schemas, transformations, enrichment, reconciliation, routing, and monitoring.

• Collaborate on OT network segmentation, vendor access controls, identity and access management, backup and recovery, and operational context data.

• Convert ISA/IEC 62443 requirements into an engineering roadmap and deliver multi-quarter projects.

• Make decisions regarding build-vs-buy, managing vendor relationships, evaluations, contracts, tool adoption, and phase-out processes.

• Promote control adoption, onboarding, exception governance, and enablement across OT environments.

• Develop automation, self-service, and scalable platform capabilities while minimizing operational overhead.

• Advise on new or significantly altered OT solutions, including vendor evaluations, design reviews, endpoint compatibility, hardening, vulnerability management, telemetry, and integrations.

• Present roadmap, risk reduction strategies, operational health, and trade-offs to senior leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 8 years of practical experience in technology, with substantial expertise in OT and security engineering.

• More than 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in platform, infrastructure, software development, or OT-context security engineering.

• Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent while establishing team operating models.

• Familiarity with engineering management practices, including hiring, performance evaluation, career progression, on-call culture, code reviews, postmortems, and operational excellence.

• Experience in managing production platforms with defined service objectives, on-call support, change management, and continuous improvement.

• Competence in driving multi-quarter roadmaps from initial problem framing to stable operations.

• Proficiency in making build-vs-buy decisions, managing vendor relationships, and overseeing tool lifecycles.

• Experience leading OT and/or ICS security platforms at scale, such as Claroty XDome, Nozomi, Dragos, Armis, or Tenable OT.

• Practical knowledge of ISA/IEC 62443, NIST CSF, and NIST SP 800-82.

• Experience deploying and operating endpoint security agents on OT-adjacent or constrained endpoints.

• Skills in building and operating findings pipelines that integrate security signals into enterprise remediation/governance platforms.

• Proficiency with various security tools and technologies across complex environments.

• Hands-on experience with at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Python or Go.

• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, including Terraform, and CI/CD practices.

• 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 strategies.

• Strong collaborative relationships with Security Architecture, BISO, Network Security, OT infrastructure, and site teams.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, along with strong presentation abilities.

• A curious mindset, a proactive approach to action, and a builder's mentality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Employee discount program.

• Short-term disability coverage.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Paid sick leave.

• Observance of national holidays with paid time off.

• Paid vacation days.

• Flexible remote work options, including work-from-home or alternate-location arrangements.

• Remote team members may travel to headquarters up to four times a year.

• Flexible hybrid work arrangement tailored for your day-to-day needs.