Sr. OT Cybersecurity Engineer
Łódź, Lodzkie, PL, 90-032
Position Overview:
The Senior OT Security Engineer acts as a technical leader for securing operational technology (OT) environments across McCormick’s plants, manufacturing, and production systems. This role combines deep hands-on OT security expertise with strategic oversight, ensuring that industrial cybersecurity controls, architectures, and processes meet evolving threats, compliance requirements, and business objectives.
In addition to implementing and managing OT security tools and segmentation strategies, the Senior OT Security Engineer will lead complex incident investigations, guide architecture decisions, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with global operations, engineering, and IT teams to integrate security into all layers of the OT environment in alignment with industrial standards such as ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82.
This potion offers the opportunity to influence security strategy, lead large scale technical initiatives, and play a key role in enhancing the organization’s overall security resilience in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead implementation and optimization of OT security technologies (e.g., firewalls, secure remote access, asset discovery, endpoint protection).
- Design and enforce secure network segmentation between IT and OT environments.
- Act as escalation point for complex OT security incidents, providing root cause analysis and remediation.
- Conduct and oversee firewall rule reviews, configuration optimization, and access control clean-ups to enforce the least privilege and reduce risk.
- Maintain and update OT security baselines and hardening standards.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (ISA/IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82) and internal policies.
- Drive continuous improvement in OT security architecture and processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align security with production and business priorities.
- Translate OT risks into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor junior engineers and analysts, fostering team development.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging OT security solutions.
- Represent OT security in governance and enterprise-wide initiatives.
Candidates Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- Expertise in cybersecurity engineering or architecture roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with firewalls (CheckPoint, Palo Alto, Fortinet) in OT environments.
- Expertise in OT asset discovery and vulnerability identification tools.
- Familiarity with OT protocols (Modbus, DNP3, BACnet) and their security implications.
- Deep understanding of OT security frameworks (ISA/IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82).
- Proven ability to harden industrial control systems and secure communications.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, CEH, Security+, Microsoft, AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Strong communication, consultative, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work in multicultural, multilingual environments and communicate technical concepts clearly across diverse teams.
- Fluent in English.