OT Infrastructure Architect: Secure IT/OT Convergence

Cognizant; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect in Frankfort, KY to lead the design and validation of industrial OT infrastructure architectures across network, identity, and security domains.

The role collaborates with client Technical Architects, site teams, security groups, and infrastructure SMEs to capture business and technical requirements, assess current environments, and define target-state architecture and migration considerations.

Qualifications

• 16 years of experience in OT infrastructure or related fields.
• Experience with Windows and Linux operating environments.
• Understanding of industrial networks, security, and OT platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall OT infrastructure architecture validation and governance.
• Collaborate with client architects, site teams, security, and SMEs to capture requirements.
• Assess current-site environments and identify dependencies, constraints, and migration needs.
• Validate target-state architecture across network, IAM, endpoint management, and security tooling.
• Define, review, and validate network segmentation per Purdue Model principles.
• Provide guidance for secure IT/OT integration and approved design decisions.
• Review designs, build documents, and migration plans for consistency with architecture.
• Act as design authority for architecture questions, exceptions, and deviations.

Skills

OT Architecture

Windows/Linux

Network & Security

Purdue Model

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect in Frankfort, KY to lead the design and validation of industrial OT infrastructure architectures across network, identity, and security domains.

The role collaborates with client Technical Architects, site teams, security groups, and infrastructure SMEs to capture business and technical requirements, assess current environments, and define target-state architecture and migration considerations.