OT Security Platform Lead – Dragos Monitoring & ICS

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Austin, TX seeks an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. You will manage sensors, SiteStore, OT Watch, and drive platform health and data quality.

Key tasks include coordinating a small managed services team, tuning detections, validating sensor placement, and providing OT context to Threat Detection & Response teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of OT/ICS Security, Industrial Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security Operations, or related infrastructure security roles.
• Hands-on experience with Dragos Platform or comparable OT monitoring solutions in production environments.
• Solid networking knowledge including VLANs, SPAN/TAP, passive monitoring, routing, switching, firewall concepts, traffic flows, and network segmentation.
• Strong understanding of ICS/OT environments, Purdue Model concepts, zones and conduits, and OT availability and safety requirements.
• Experience triaging OT security detections and providing actionable context to SOC, Threat Detection & Response, or Incident Response teams.
• Experience with OT network segmentation, sensor deployment, SIEM integration, and detection routing is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of the Dragos Platform, including sensors, SiteStore, OT Watch, platform health, upgrades, and data quality.
• Monitor and troubleshoot unhealthy sensors, resolve data coverage issues, and coordinate with Dragos support and network teams.
• Validate sensor placement, SPAN/TAP coverage, and passive network visibility across industrial environments; identify monitoring gaps.
• Triage high-severity OT security findings, investigate benign activity, and escalate events to the Threat Detection & Response team.
• Tune Dragos detections to reduce false positives and ensure critical findings are routed to enterprise security teams.
• Support SIEM integration, detection forwarding, escalation workflows, and operational handoffs with OT context.
• Deploy and validate Dragos sensors for new sites and manage secure decommissioning when facilities close or divest.
• Coordinate daily MSP activities, manage escalations, and be the primary OT Security contact for leadership.
• Maintain runbooks, transition plans, escalation matrices, scorecards, service metrics, and knowledge-transfer docs.

Skills

Dragos Platform

OT/ICS Security

Threat Detection

Network Security

Team Leadership

Tools

Dragos Platform

Claroty

Nozomi Networks

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Austin, TX seeks an experienced OT Security Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to own the Dragos security monitoring platform across a global manufacturing environment. You will manage sensors, SiteStore, OT Watch, and drive platform health and data quality.

Key tasks include coordinating a small managed services team, tuning detections, validating sensor placement, and providing OT context to Threat Detection & Response teams.