Senior Engineering Manager – Operational Technology Security

Target

. Lead, build, and develop a team of Lead Engineers responsible for Target's OT security capabilities .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • Minnesota • United StatesSenior💰 $132,000 - $238,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in OT security engineering, team leadership, and operational excellence, with a strong focus on managing engineering standards, vendor relationships, and multi-quarter roadmaps. Proficient in deploying and operating security platforms while ensuring compliance with ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST standards.

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OT Security EngineeringTeam LeadershipVendor Relationship ManagementISA/IEC 62443 ComplianceProduction Platform Management

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Hard Skills

OT Security PlatformsEndpoint SecurityPythonGoInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCI/CDVulnerability ManagementData Pipeline DevelopmentOperational Excellence

Soft Skills

CommunicationCuriosityBias for ActionBuilder's Mindset

Tools & Technologies

Claroty XDomeNozomiDragosArmisTenable OT

Industry Keywords

Operational TechnologyIndustrial Control SystemsNetwork SegmentationVendor-Access ControlsChange Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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