OT Security Platform Engineer & Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own and operate the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. This hands-on leadership role oversees platform health, sensor management, detection tuning, OT security triage, site onboarding, and network segmentation support.

The ideal candidate will combine Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring expertise with IC/OT networking, security

Qualifications

• 7+ years in OT/ICS Security or related roles.
• Hands-on Dragos Platform experience in production.
• Strong IC/OT networking and Purdue Model knowledge.
• Experience leading small technical teams in MSP/consulting.
• Certifications in Dragos, GICSP, ISA/IEC 62443, CISSP, CCNA, or CCNP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of the Dragos Platform, including sensors, SiteStore, OT Watch, platform health, upgrades, configuration consistency, and data quality.
• Monitor sensors and data coverage; coordinate with Dragos support and network teams.
• Validate sensor placement, SPAN/TAP coverage, and passive visibility; identify monitoring gaps.
• Triage high-severity OT security findings and escalate to SOC/Threat Detection & Response teams.
• Tune Dragos detections to improve fidelity and route alerts to enterprise security teams.
• Support SIEM integration, detection forwarding, and handoffs with OT context for investigations.
• Deploy and validate Dragos sensors for new or acquired sites and manage decommissioning.
• Support OT network segmentation initiatives and validate monitoring coverage after network changes.
• Coordinate daily activities of managed services resources and act as primary technical contact for OT Security leadership.
• Maintain runbooks, transition plans, escalation matrices, status reports, and knowledge-transfer docs.

Skills

OT security

Dragos platform

IC/OT networking

Threat Detection & Response

Team coordination

Tools

Dragos Platform

Claroty

Nozomi Networks

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own and operate the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. This hands-on leadership role oversees platform health, sensor management, detection tuning, OT security triage, site onboarding, and network segmentation support.

The ideal candidate will combine Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring expertise with IC/OT networking, security