OT Security Platform Lead(Dragos)|Industrial ICS Security

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Dover (DE); 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 seeks an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own and operate the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. You will lead a small managed services team, ensure platform health, sensor management, and detection tuning, while providing OT security context to Threat Detection & Response teams.

Strong Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring experience with ICS networking is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in OT/ICS Security or related roles.
• Hands-on Dragos Platform or comparable OT monitoring experience in production.
• Solid networking knowledge: VLANs, SPAN/TAP, routing, switching, and segmentation.
• Strong understanding of ICS/OT environments and Purdue Model concepts.
• Experience triaging OT detections and providing context to SOC/IR teams.
• Familiarity with ITSM tools like ServiceNow and MSP delivery.
• Experience leading a small technical team in a managed services environment.
• Prefers experience in regulated manufacturing sectors (life sciences, pharma, medical devices).
• Certifications or training in Dragos, GICSP, GRID, GCIA, ISA/IEC 62443, CISSP, CCNA/CCNP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of the Dragos Platform across sites, sensors, and SiteStore.
• Monitor and troubleshoot sensors, ensure data coverage and quality.
• Validate sensor placement and network visibility across environments.
• Triage high-severity OT findings and escalate to Threat Detection & Response.
• Tune detections to reduce false positives and route critical alerts to security teams.
• Support SIEM integration and detection forwarding; provide OT context for investigations.
• Deploy/validate sensors for new sites; manage secure decommissioning.
• Coordinate MSP resources and act as primary technical point of contact for OT security leadership.
• Maintain runbooks, transition plans, and weekly/monthly security reports.

Skills

OT/ICS Security

Security Operations

Threat Detection & Response

Incident Response

Networking & Segmentation

Dragos Platform

MSP/Managed Services

Education

CISSP / other certifications

GICSP / GRID / GCIA / ISA/IEC 62443

CCNA / CCNP

Tools

Dragos

Claroty

Nozomi Networks

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own and operate the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. You will lead a small managed services team, ensure platform health, sensor management, and detection tuning, while providing OT security context to Threat Detection & Response teams.

Strong Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring experience with ICS networking is essential.