Lead Engineer Operational Technology Security

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Cybersecurity at Target is on a mission to secure the systems tools and processes that team members and guests interact with every day. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business and help ensure that Target operates smoothly securely and reliably from the inside out. If youre excited by the opportunity to demonstrate strong ownership and deep technical expertise while solving complex security challenges at scale we invite you to join us as a Lead Security Engineer for Operational Technology (OT)!

As a Lead Security Engineer for Operational Technology (OT) you will help in designing building and scaling security solutions to secure Targets operational tech across supply chain stores and corporate offices. Leveraging your security and risk management experience you will work across Target technology and business teams to implement security requirements assess risk and develop mitigation strategies. You will leverage your deep engineering and technical expertise to force-multiply your impact by building new security solutions and influencing across your peers and partner teams. Finally you will act as a leader within our organization constantly working to uplevel our team by mentoring your team members in security concepts and engineering best practices.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• Bachelors degree in information security computer science or related field; or related experience

• 5 years of engineering experience in one or more information security domains (e.g. vulnerability management threat intelligence application security incident response risk management etc.)

• 2 years of engineering experience in Operational Technology (OT) or Internet-of-Things (IOT) security

• 2 years of engineering experience in network architecture network design or network segmentation

• Experience defining security requirements managing findings and mitigating risk across dozens of unique business lines hundreds of distinct applications and thousands of stakeholders

Preferred

• Masters degree in information security computer science or related field; or related experience

• Experience designing developing and scaling security solutions that enable developers and technology solutions to be secure-by-default (e.g. auto-patching credential rotation etc.)

• Demonstrated experience harmonizing and aligning business needs with security requirements to ensure security threats and risks are properly identified and managed

• Executive-level communication skills both verbal and written capable of effectively articulating technical topics to a wide range of stakeholders to drive understanding and alignment

• Proven ability to own enterprise-wide security projects or programs (e.g. Patch Management Risk Management etc.) including building project plans identifying stakeholders communicating progress and addressing roadblocks

• Experience with both on-prem (e.g. bare metal servers firewalls etc.) and cloud-based (e.g. GCP AWS Azure etc.) infrastructure

• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g. Claude ChatGPT etc.) to measurably improve the effectiveness or operations of a security tool or mechanism

• Experience with Operational Technology (OT) Security standards such as ISA/IEC 62443 or NIST SP 800-82 Rev 3

• Experience with common security tooling (e.g. SIEM DLP IDS IPS etc.)

• Experience with common security frameworks (e.g. NIST ISO/IEC 27001 PCI-DSS etc.)

• Relevant security industry certifications (e.g. CISSP CISM OSCP etc.)

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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