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
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Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

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6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

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9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

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