Koch Industries

OT/IT Architect

Koch Industries • $108K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience with industrial control technologies (PLC, HMI, DCS) in manufacturing environments
  • Proven experience in designing and supporting industrial networks and firewalls using Purdue architecture or similar models
  • Demonstrated leadership in cross-organizational architecture or technology initiatives from inception to implementation
  • Strong understanding of architecture concepts like high availability, recovery, and virtualization
  • Experience translating manufacturing and cybersecurity requirements into technical standards and designs
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% to manufacturing sites and comply with safety requirements
  • Legal authorization to work permanently in the U.S. without visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain IT/OT architecture standards and reference designs
  • Lead architecture efforts across manufacturing, engineering, and cybersecurity teams
  • Guide design and implementation of OT solutions including DCS, PLC, and IoT
  • Assess emerging technologies for capability gaps and integration needs
  • Translate regulatory and industry security requirements into actionable architecture decisions
  • Advise teams on reliability, segmentation, and secure configuration for manufacturing
  • Promote adoption of approved architecture patterns and share knowledge across teams
  • Apply automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches to improve efficiency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance options
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an OT Architect to shape secure, resilient, and scalable technology solutions for manufacturing environments. This role connects process control, engineering, cybersecurity, and information technology teams to define architecture direction, guide solution decisions, and improve the reliability and security of operational technology across the enterprise.

This role is based in Atlanta, GA. If not located in Atlanta, relocation will be required.

What You Will Do
• Develop and maintain IT/OT architecture standards, reference designs, and reusable patterns aligned with security, information technology, and operational technology frameworks
• Lead cross-organizational architecture efforts that bring together manufacturing, process control, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application stakeholders
• Guide the design and implementation of current and future OT solutions, including DCS, PLC, HMI, industrial networking, remote access, edge, IoT, and supporting infrastructure
• Assess emerging technologies to identify capability gaps, overlap with existing solutions, integration needs, risks, and opportunities to create value
• Translate manufacturing, regulatory, and industry security requirements into actionable architecture decisions, technical standards, and implementation guidance
• Advise project and product teams on reliability, segmentation, availability, recovery, replication, virtualization, and secure configuration decisions for manufacturing environments
• Promote adoption/consumption of approved patterns and share practical knowledge across architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, and site technology communities
• Apply automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches where they improve repeatability, governance, speed, or total cost of ownership

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Experience deploying or administering industrial control technologies in manufacturing environments, including PLC, HMI, or DCS platforms
• Experience designing or supporting industrial networks and firewalls using the Purdue architecture model or an equivalent industrial segmentation model
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple cross-organizational architecture or technology initiatives from problem definition through solution decision and implementation guidance
• Experience applying architecture concepts such as high availability, elimination of single points of failure, recovery, data replication, and virtualization to technology designs
• Documented experience translating manufacturing, regulatory, or cybersecurity requirements into technical standards, architecture patterns, designs, or implementation actions
• Ability to travel up to 25%, including visits to manufacturing sites, and to comply with site-specific safety and personal protective equipment requirements
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead
• Five or more years of experience deploying or administering industrial control systems, PLC, HMI, or DCS technologies in manufacturing environments
• Five or more years of experience with networking, firewalls, and industrial segmentation in manufacturing environments
• Two or more years of experience in a technical lead or IT/OT architecture role
• Experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as AWX or Terraform
• Experience with cloud, edge, and industrial IoT technologies
• Experience with secure vendor or remote access platforms used in manufacturing environments, including NextNine or comparable solutions
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy at jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength, focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation and time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria are set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions about which benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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