Industrial OT Security Engineer - Protect & Optimize ICS

Aurubis AG; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health coverage

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Aurubis AG is seeking an OT Security Engineer to support the security and reliability of the organization's OT environment in a manufacturing setting. You will work with automation, IT, and operations teams to implement cybersecurity controls and lifecycle activities for industrial control systems.

The role requires 3–5 years of OT security and systems administration experience, plus strong knowledge of SCADA/DCS, HMIs, and patch management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cyber security or related field, or AS with technical certs.
• 5+ years in OT-related field or equivalent experience.
• Certifications from CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft or similar are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain OT servers, workstations, and network devices in a manufacturing setting.
• Monitor system health, performance, logs, and incidents; escalate as needed.
• Apply patches, firmware updates, and antivirus definitions on OT assets.
• Support PLCs, SCADA, HMIs with automation engineers.
• Document configurations, network diagrams, and SOPs.
• Participate in root-cause analysis for outages and implement fixes.
• On-call rotation for after-hours support.
• Contribute to OT security initiatives and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with IT, Operations, Reliability, Maintenance, and Project Engineering.

Skills

OT security

IT systems administration

PowerShell

SCADA

DCS

VMware

Windows Server

Active Directory

SIEM

Security patching

Education

Bachelor's degree in cyber security

AS with Technical School Certificates

Tools

VMware

Windows Server

Active Directory

PowerShell

SIEM

Job description

Aurubis AG is seeking an OT Security Engineer to support the security and reliability of the organization's OT environment in a manufacturing setting. You will work with automation, IT, and operations teams to implement cybersecurity controls and lifecycle activities for industrial control systems.

The role requires 3–5 years of OT security and systems administration experience, plus strong knowledge of SCADA/DCS, HMIs, and patch management.