IT/OT Security Engineer & Incident Response Manager
1440 Foods Manufacturing · New York, New York, United States
Food and Beverage Services · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The role involves serving as the business-hours incident lead and Incident Commander for cyber events across corporate, cloud, and OT environments. Additionally, the engineer will own security engineering tasks, including vulnerability management, OT security, and cloud identity protection.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must possess strong fundamentals in OT/industrial security, incident response, and endpoint management. Experience in manufacturing or food-production environments is preferred, along with proficiency in cloud and identity security tools.
Benefits
Full description
At 1440 Foods, we're on a mission to energize people to unleash their full potential with a portfolio of great-tasting, high-protein snacks and supplements. Our brands Pure Protein®, Body Fortress®, MET-Rx®, and FITCrunch® make better nutrition accessible, enjoyable, and part of an active lifestyle.
As a fast-growing sports and active nutrition company, we are shaping the future of health and wellness in CPG. If you're looking to make a big impact in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, we'd love to have you on board!
Position Overview
As our IT/OT Security Engineer & Incident Response Lead, you'll be a hands-on security engineer who also leads incidents during business hours across our corporate, cloud, and OT/manufacturing environments. You'll own security engineering and incident coordination, while our managed 24×7 SOC handles monitoring and first response. You'll work closely with IT Infrastructure, OT Engineering, OEM vendors, and leadership, and report to the Director of IT.
If you're looking to bring engineering depth and incident leadership to a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we'd love to speak with you.
Job Responsibilities
- Incident Response (primary): Serve as the business-hours incident lead and Incident Commander during cyber events. Validate and authorize SOC-recommended containment, coordinate IT, OT Engineering, OEMs, and leadership through resolution, and run post-incident reviews.
- Endpoint & Vulnerability: Administer EDR (CrowdStrike Falcon), investigate and tune detections, and drive risk-based vulnerability remediation with Infrastructure and OT, tracking SLAs.
- OT Security (key focus): Own secure remote vendor/OEM access and jump-box environments, maintain OT segmentation and firewall rules, coordinate remediation around production schedules, and support secure architecture for PLC/HMI/SCADA and engineering workstations (ISA/IEC 62443).
- Cloud, Identity & Network: Support Microsoft 365 / Entra ID security, Conditional Access, privileged access reviews, and MFA; review firewall rules, VPN, and network segmentation.
- Governance (support): Support policy, security audits, NIST CSF, cyber insurance questionnaires, and security documentation.
- Projects: Contribute to infrastructure projects, security architecture reviews, and vendor design reviews.
Qualifications & Skills
- OT/industrial security fundamentals — secure remote access, segmentation, PLC/HMI/SCADA, ISA/IEC 62443
- Incident response — able to lead technically during an event
- Hands-on endpoint (EDR) and vulnerability management on comparable tools
- Cloud/identity security basics (Microsoft 365 / Entra ID)
- Strong communicator across technical, plant, and executive audiences
- Manufacturing or food-production environment experience preferred
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to grow within a critical function in a growing mid-size CPG company
- Collaborative and entrepreneurial work culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Career development and growth opportunities
If you are a hands-on security engineer with deep OT expertise and a passion for incident leadership in a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we invite you to apply and join our team!
