Job description

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. 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. Ensure compliance with industry standards (ISA/IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82) and internal policies. 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. 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. Proven ability to harden industrial control systems and secure communications. CISSP, GIAC, CEH, Security+, Microsoft, AWS/GCP/Azure). Ability to work in multicultural, multilingual environments and communicate technical concepts clearly across diverse teams. Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers. While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Kamis. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

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