IT Applications, Development & Support Sr Specialist (IT/OT Security & Resilience)
Objective
Serve as the critical on-site champion and "vehicle" for information security and network policy enforcement across manufacturing facilities. This role conducts hands‑on verifications of regional network standards, actively protecting the physical and logical integrity of critical IT/OT interconnections.
Main Responsibilities
- Cybersecurity Compliance & Optimization: Partner with plant engineering and local teams to implement security baselines and networking best practices on industrial communication hardware without impacting active production lines.
- Secure Architecture Deployment: Physically implement, configure, and support secure network segments, gateways, DMZs, and conduits bridging IT enterprise networks and OT industrial automation control systems (IACS).
- Disaster Recovery & Backup Validation: Routinely verify, test, and document the viability of local, plant‑level backup processes for critical operational assets (PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA systems)
to guarantee rapid disaster recovery capabilities.
- Audit Readiness & Documentation: Support the regional OT Lead in gathering, reviewing, and maintaining technical "Evidence of Compliance" to satisfy internal audits, corporate ISMS policies, and automotive industry security regulations (e.g., TISAX, ISA/IEC 62443).
- Business Continuity Execution: Lead and provide hands‑on technical support for local Business Continuity Plan (BCP) drills, zeroing in on emergency hardware recovery setups and bypass scenario testing.
- Infrastructure Mapping: Create and keep meticulously accurate "as‑built" documentation, simple network topology diagrams, and inventory registers for interconnected systems across various manufacturing facilities.
- Network Health Monitoring: Monitor the operational health of the IT/OT network bridge, utilizing network monitoring tools to detect, evaluate, and promptly elevate network performance metric
📌 IT Development (García)
🏢 Nemak
📍 García