OT Infra Solution Architect: Secure IT/OT Architecture Lead

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Salt Lake City is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect with 16+ years of experience to lead architecture across OT networks, security, and platforms. You will collaborate with client and internal teams to capture requirements, validate architectures, and ensure IT/OT integration aligned with Purdue Model and security standards.

Role includes guiding design reviews, mitigating risk, and delivering scalable, secure infrastructure for critical operations.

Qualifications

• 16+ years of experience in OT infrastructure or related roles.
• Experience with IT/OT integration and Purdue Model alignment is preferred.
• Strong architecture and risk assessment skills.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Understand and validate the overall OT infrastructure architecture and associated technology stack.
• Collaborate with Client’s Technical Architects, program stakeholders, site teams, security teams, and infrastructure SMEs to capture business, technical, operational, compliance, and site-specific requirements.
• Assess current-state site environments and identify architecture dependencies, technical constraints, integration requirements, and migration considerations.
• Validate target-state OT infrastructure architecture across network, identity, access management, endpoint management, security tooling, and operational support components.
• Define, review, and validate network segmentation strategy aligned with Purdue Model principles, including separation of enterprise IT, site operations, industrial DMZ, supervisory control, and control system layers.
• Provide architecture guidance for secure IT/OT integration, ensuring that communication paths, access patterns, and infrastructure services are aligned with approved security and operational standards.
• Validate integration architecture for core infrastructure components such as Active Directory, Privileged Access Management, Public Key Infrastructure, endpoint protection, ePO, SCCM, and related enterprise services.
• Review engineering designs, build documents, high-level designs, low-level designs, implementation plans, and migration approaches to ensure consistency with the approved architecture.
• Act as a technical design authority for architecture-related queries, design decisions, technical exceptions, and implementation deviations.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, security concerns, operational dependencies, and implementation blockers, and work with stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
• Support governance forums, design review meetings, architecture walkthroughs, and technical decision reviews with clear recommendations and documented outcomes.
• Ensure that engineering and migration deliverables are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and program timelines

Skills

Operating Systems and Core Services

Storage & backup

OT Platforms

Industrial Network & Security

Job description

Cognizant in Salt Lake City is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect with 16+ years of experience to lead architecture across OT networks, security, and platforms. You will collaborate with client and internal teams to capture requirements, validate architectures, and ensure IT/OT integration aligned with Purdue Model and security standards.

Role includes guiding design reviews, mitigating risk, and delivering scalable, secure infrastructure for critical operations.