OT Infrastructure Solution Architect: Secure Industrial IT/OT

Cognizant; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect with 16+ years of experience to lead and validate industrial OT infrastructure architectures. You will collaborate with client architects, site teams, and security groups to capture requirements, assess current environments, and define secure, scalable integration strategies.

Responsibilities include refining network segmentation per Purdue Model, guiding IT/OT integration, and reviewing designs and migration plans to ensure alignment

Qualifications

• Experience: 16+ years in OT infrastructure architecture.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Understand and validate the OT infrastructure architecture and technology stack.
• Collaborate with client’s Technical Architects, program stakeholders, site teams, security teams, and infrastructure SMEs to capture requirements.
• Assess current-state site environments and identify architecture dependencies, constraints, integration needs, and migration considerations.
• Validate target-state OT infrastructure architecture across network, identity, access management, endpoint management, security tooling, and operations.
• Define, review, and validate network segmentation strategy aligned with Purdue Model principles across enterprise IT, site ops, industrial DMZ, and control layers.
• Provide architecture guidance for secure IT/OT integration, ensuring compliant communication paths and access patterns.
• Validate integration architecture for core components such as Active Directory, Privileged Access Management, PKI, endpoint protection, ePO, SCCM, and related services.
• Review engineering designs, high/low-level designs, and migration plans for alignment with approved architecture.
• Act as a technical design authority for architecture queries, decisions, and deviations.
• Identify risks, gaps, security concerns, and blockers; drive timely resolutions with stakeholders.
• Support governance forums, design reviews, and architecture walkthroughs with clear recommendations.
• Ensure engineering and migration deliverables are scalable, secure, and aligned with standards and timelines.

Skills

Operating Systems & Core Services

Storage & backup

OT Platforms

Industrial Network & Security

Tools

Active Directory

Privileged Access Management

PKI

SCCM

Endpoint protection

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an OT Infrastructure Solution Architect with 16+ years of experience to lead and validate industrial OT infrastructure architectures. You will collaborate with client architects, site teams, and security groups to capture requirements, assess current environments, and define secure, scalable integration strategies.

Responsibilities include refining network segmentation per Purdue Model, guiding IT/OT integration, and reviewing designs and migration plans to ensure alignment