OT/IT Architecture Lead for Secure Manufacturing

Koch

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Georgia-Pacific seeks an OT Architect to shape secure, scalable technology for manufacturing, connecting process control, engineering, cybersecurity, and IT teams to drive architecture decisions and secure operations across the enterprise.

The Infrastructure Architecture team partners with manufacturing, engineering, cybersecurity, and infrastructure groups to set standards and roadmaps that deliver long‑term value and align OT with enterprise strategies.

Qualifications

Experience deploying or administering industrial control technologies in manufacturing environments, including PLC, HMI, or DCS platforms.
Experience designing or supporting industrial networks and firewalls using the Purdue architecture model or an equivalent industrial segmentation model.
Demonstrated experience leading multiple cross‑organizational architecture or technology initiatives from problem definition through solution decision and implementation guidance.
Experience applying architecture concepts such as high availability, elimination of single points of failure, recovery, data replication, and virtualization to technology designs.
Documented experience translating manufacturing, regulatory, or cybersecurity requirements into technical standards, architecture patterns, designs, or implementation actions.
Ability to travel up to 25%, including visits to manufacturing sites, and to comply with site‑specific safety and personal protective equipment requirements.
Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain IT/OT architecture standards, reference designs, and reusable patterns aligned with security, information technology, and operational technology frameworks.
Lead cross‑organizational architecture efforts that bring together manufacturing, process control, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application stakeholders.
Guide the design and implementation of current and future OT solutions, including DCS, PLC, HMI, industrial networking, remote access, edge, IoT, and supporting infrastructure.
Assess emerging technologies to identify capability gaps, overlap with existing solutions, integration needs, risks, and opportunities to create value.
Translate manufacturing, regulatory, and industry security requirements into actionable architecture decisions, technical standards, and implementation guidance.
Advise project and product teams on reliability, segmentation, availability, recovery, replication, virtualization, and secure configuration decisions for manufacturing environments.
Promote adoption/consumption of approved patterns and share practical knowledge across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, and site technology communities.
Apply automation and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches where they improve repeatability, governance, speed, or total cost of ownership