OT Security Platform Lead for Dragos & ICS Monitoring

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Topeka (KS); 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 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 leader will manage sensors, site onboarding, detection tuning, and coordinate a small managed services team.

The ideal candidate brings Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring experience, strong ICS networking, and security operations skills, with knowledge of Purdue Model

Qualifications

• 7+ years of OT/ICS Security or related roles.
• Hands-on Dragos or comparable OT monitoring experience.
• Strong networking including VLANs, SPAN/TAP, and segmentation.
• Solid ICS/OT environment knowledge and Purdue Model concepts.
• Experience triaging OT detections and coordinating with SOC/IRT.
• Experience with OT network segmentation and SIEM integration is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow) for incident tracking.
• Experience leading a small technical team in MSP/consulting.
• Prefers experience in regulated manufacturing sectors.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day Dragos Platform operations: sensors, SiteStore, OT Watch, health, upgrades.
• Triage high-severity OT findings and escalate to Threat Detection & Response.
• Tune detections to reduce false positives and route critical alerts appropriately.
• Support SIEM integration, detection forwarding, and operational handoffs.
• Deploy sensors for new sites and manage secure decommissioning.
• Coordinate managed services resources and act as technical POC for OT leadership.
• Maintain runbooks, transition plans, and weekly/monthly performance reports.

Skills

OT security

Dragos platform

ICS networking

Threat detection

Incident response

MSP delivery

ITSM (ServiceNow)

Tools

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 leader will manage sensors, site onboarding, detection tuning, and coordinate a small managed services team.

The ideal candidate brings Dragos or equivalent OT monitoring experience, strong ICS networking, and security operations skills, with knowledge of Purdue Model