Cybersec Eng Sr. Director

The Senior Director of Operational Technology (OT) Security is a strategic executive leader responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the global OT Security strategy that protects the organization’s manufacturing, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), connected products, and supply chain environment.

The ideal candidate is a visionary cybersecurity executive who can translate complex cyber risk into business outcomes, influence senior leaders across Operations and Technology, and build a resilient OT security program at global scale. This role will combine deep OT and industrial cybersecurity expertise with strong executive presence, operational credibility, and the ability to lead through influence in a matrixed enterprise.

This role is expected to own the global OT security strategy for a 95B Consumer Packaging Goods company and focuses on, protecting hundreds of plants, warehouses and mixing centers while enabling secure digital transformation, and ensure cyber resilience across the company’s production and supply chain ecosystem.

Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (or VP of Cybersecurity), this leader will establish enterprise-wide OT security capabilities across thousands of manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, digital twins sites, research and development laboratories, and critical infrastructure while enabling digital transformation, Industry 4.0 initiatives, smart manufacturing, robotics, IoT, AI-enabled operations, and cloud-connected industrial environments.

This role requires close partnership with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Digital, Infrastructure, Product Development, and Executive Leadership to balance operational resiliency, safety, and cybersecurity risk. This role requires close partnership with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Digital, Infrastructure, Product Development, and Executive Leadership to balance operational resiliency, safety, and cybersecurity risk.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lead strategy and direction and drive excellence for the OT Security program.
• Governs how all testing is done for OT Security technology across the OT Security labs globally.
• Accountable to define the vision to build and deploy the OT reference architecture, design and governance standards for OT Security which includes increased visibility, next generation firewalls, OT End Point Detection & Response (EDR), OT USB Scanning, Process Whitelisting and additional OT Security controls based on the site archetypes.
• Plan and manage full time (external / internal) resources to complete OT Security implementations globally at operational sites.

Tools & Asset Management:
Responsible for managing the OT Security tools across the S&T organization. The scope of the role includes the inventory, licensing and usage of existing tools as well as the evaluation of new tools for optimization across Pepsi Co IT. Additionally includes maintaining an inventory of sites across the OT environment.

Establishes automated testing framework across sectors and S&T capabilities

Responsibilities

• Leading OT Security Strategy for Industrial Control Systems (ICS), SCADA environments, Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), PLCs, Robotics, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms, Warehouse Automation, Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs), Smart factories, Connected production equipment.
• Develop and Mature OT Capabilities for OT Asset Inventory, OT Network Segmentation, OT Resiliency, Secure Remote Access, Industrial DMZ Architecture, Next Generation Firewalls, Zero Trust for OT, Vulnerability Management, Threat Detection, Configuration Management, Backup and Recovery, Industrial Logging and Monitoring, Security Architecture.
• Provide executive leadership for Purdue Model architecture, ISA/IEC 62443 implementation, Secure network segmentation, Industrial identity management, OT cloud connectivity, Secure edge computing, Industrial IoT security, Secure vendor connectivity, Secure digital twins, AI-enabled manufacturing security.
• OT Incident Response:
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