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About the Role

The Managing Director, OT Security provides senior leadership for the cybersecurity strategy, operating model, services, and risk outcomes protecting operational technology across AEP's Transmission, Distribution, and Generation fleet, including nuclear generation. This leader ensures the OT Security group can define security requirements, lead architecture and engineering efforts, validate security outcomes, prioritize vulnerability risk, integrate monitoring and detection, coordinate OT incident response and recovery, assess technology, maintain trusted Business Unit partnerships, and build missing OT security capabilities.

Responsibilities

Set and communicate the OT Security vision, strategy, priorities, service model, and multi-year direction.
Provide executive leadership for the OT Security portfolio and its persistent services.
Align OT cybersecurity priorities and investment with operational leaders, Enterprise Security, and regulatory obligations.
Establish clear accountability, delegated decision authority, and operating expectations.
Guide portfolio demand, capacity, organizational design, and talent strategy.
Ensure material OT cyber risk and unresolved control gaps are transparent to senior leadership.
Maintain the technical depth to challenge engineering and security conclusions.
Build durable executive partnerships with Business Unit and Enterprise Security leaders.
Develop leaders and a multidisciplinary OT cybersecurity team.
Represent OT cybersecurity in senior governance forums and advise executive leadership on operational cyber risk.
Provide portfolio leadership and operating accountability for persistent OT Security services.
Maintain enterprise-level visibility into OT Security commitments and priorities.
Lead an intake and engagement model that empowers qualified specialists.
Prioritize competing demand across Business Units, projects, and other workstreams.
Ensure work closes with a clear outcome: validated completion, tracked remediation, accepted risk, authorized deferral, or documented escalation.
Ensure enterprise cybersecurity capabilities are adapted to OT requirements and independently validated.
Govern planned after-hours support, incident escalation, and any approved on-call model.
Intervene in high-consequence, novel, disputed, or cross-functional matters.
Lead OT supply chain and vendor security risk management.
Drive secure remote access, OT identity and access management, network segmentation, and internal network security monitoring.
Ensure OT backup, recovery, and restoration capabilities support operating in degraded conditions.
Integrate cyber and physical security for substations, control centers, and generating stations.
Ensure new grid technologies are secured by design.
Represent AEP with industry organizations and participate in sector exercises.
Establish OT security metrics and deliver clear, executive-ready risk reporting.

Requirements

Progressive leadership experience across cybersecurity, operational technology, engineering, critical infrastructure, technology operations, risk, or closely related disciplines.
Experience setting strategy and leading complex programs, portfolios, services, or multidisciplinary teams in a large, regulated, operationally sensitive, or critical-infrastructure environment.
Demonstrated ability to balance cybersecurity outcomes with operational safety, reliability, availability, maintainability, regulatory obligations, and business priorities.
Ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries, resolve accountability or ownership ambiguity, and communicate material risk to senior and executive leaders.
Experience establishing priorities, delegated authority, governance, service expectations, talent plans, and sustainable operating models across competing demand.
Hands-on OT and cybersecurity depth sufficient to evaluate technical quality, challenge engineering and security conclusions, and lead high-consequence decisions in live operating environments.
Experience building or maturing security capabilities and working with operational leaders, engineering teams, enterprise cybersecurity service owners, project organizations, governance functions, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field; equivalent combinations of education, military service, and operational experience will be considered.
15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, operational technology, engineering, or operations, including 7+ years in senior leadership.
Direct experience securing electric utility operational environments across multiple areas of transmission, distribution, and generation.
Demonstrated expertise in NERC CIP compliance and OT security architecture, monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response.
Nuclear power plant cybersecurity experience or direct work with NRC cybersecurity programs.
Engineering or operations background (e.g., protection and control, SCADA, plant controls).
Certifications such as GICSP, GRID, GCIP, or CISSP.

Skills

Cybersecurity
Operational Technology (OT)
NERC CIP compliance
OT security architecture
Monitoring
Vulnerability management
Incident response
Nuclear power plant cybersecurity
NRC cybersecurity programs
Electric utility operational environments
Transmission
Distribution
Generation
SCADA
Plant controls
DNP3
IEC 61850
Modbus
ICCP/TASE.2
IEC 62443
ISA/IEC standards
OT specific protocols
OT specific threats and adversaries

Location

Columbus, OH
Austin, TX

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, operational technology, engineering, or operations
7+ years in senior leadership

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field
Equivalent combinations of education, military service, and operational experience will be considered

Salary/Compensations

$188,524.00 - $245,080.00

About the Company

At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!

Equal Opportunity

It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. When required by law, we might record certain information or applicants for employment may be invited to voluntarily disclose protected characteristics.