Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer – OT/IT Focus

Kens Foods; Marlborough (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kens Foods seeks a highly technical IT Security Engineer to build and mature its cybersecurity program in a food & beverage manufacturing environment. You’ll be the primary hands-on technical resource supporting cybersecurity initiatives and collaborating with IT, OT teams and MSSP SOC.

Role focuses on hardening Windows servers and endpoints, securing networks, and leading vulnerability remediation. Experience with SOC alerts and OWASP Top 10 is valuable.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in IT security engineering, SOC, or incident response roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server and client security; network/firewall security; endpoint security tools; MFA and identity systems.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and identity security best practices.
• Experience hardening servers, endpoints, and network devices.
• Familiarity with log analysis and security event triage.
• Comfort working directly with SOC alerts and vulnerability scan reports.
• Understanding of security frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, SOC 2).
• Strong documentation habits and process-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Review alerts and escalations from the MSSP to validate severity, impact, and actions.
• Conduct technical investigations and support containment, eradication, and recovery activities.
• Harden and secure Windows servers, clients, VMs, and IT infrastructure.
• Ensure secure configuration and management of endpoint protection (SentinelOne).
• Collaborate with IT infrastructure to secure firewall, switches, and network segments.
• Support network security improvements such as segmentation and least privilege access.
• Perform firewall rule reviews and contribute to network hardening.
• Support secure configuration of identity platforms and RBAC.
• Enforce privileged access hygiene and identity hardening standards.
• Coordinate remediation with system and network teams; lead patching for high-risk assets.
• Work with developers to identify and fix security issues (OWASP Top 10).
• Conduct security reviews of applications and servers.
• Collaborate with OT engineers on legacy systems, PLCs, and OT network segmentation.

Skills

Windows security

Network security

Endpoint security

MFA & identity

Active Directory security

SOC alert handling

Vulnerability management

Security frameworks

Documentation

Tools

SentinelOne

Active Directory

Firewall & network config

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

Kens Foods seeks a highly technical IT Security Engineer to build and mature its cybersecurity program in a food & beverage manufacturing environment. You’ll be the primary hands-on technical resource supporting cybersecurity initiatives and collaborating with IT, OT teams and MSSP SOC.

Role focuses on hardening Windows servers and endpoints, securing networks, and leading vulnerability remediation. Experience with SOC alerts and OWASP Top 10 is valuable.