Senior System Engineer

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Your role and responsibilities:

In this role, you will contribute to improving the cybersecurity of grid automation products, embedded systems, and industrial solutions through security assessments, threat modelling, risk analysis, vulnerability management, and compliance activities. You will support product and system/solution certification, ensuring alignment with IEC 62443 standards, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and applicable cybersecurity regulations.

The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid

This role contributes to the Electrification Business, Distribution Solutions Division in Bangalore, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Integrate Netcon products, CogniEN cloud applications, and other approved solutions into the GASCRA baseline, ensuring secure connectivity, interoperability, and certification readiness.
• Configure and validate system interfaces, communication protocols, network connectivity, and data flows across OT, IT, and cloud environments.
• Perform system-level cybersecurity, functional, interoperability, and compliance assessments, including FAT/SAT and regression testing.
• Assess product upgrades, patches, firmware releases, and lifecycle changes for functional and cybersecurity impacts; validate changes and maintain approved system baselines.
• Define and validate secure IT/OT integration patterns covering network segmentation, firewalls, identity and access management (IAM), remote access, logging, monitoring, and enterprise connectivity.
• Assess the feasibility of establishing GASCRA as a System Verification Center for cybersecurity, interoperability, and compliance validation. Establish and maintain the OT Product Cybersecurity Whitelisting Repository for ABB and approved third-party products, tracking security compliance, versions, patches, and lifecycle status.
• Maintain system architecture, integration guides, test procedures, and compliance documentation. Provide regular status updates to project stakeholders and management on integration progress, validation results, risks, and outstanding technical issues.
  

Qualifications for the role:

• 10+ years of experience in industrial automation, OT/ICS, substation automation, or system integration.
• Experience integrating industrial products, software applications, network infrastructure, and cloud-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of OT systems, industrial communication protocols, networking, and IT/OT integration.
• Experience in system configuration, cybersecurity validation, product upgrades, patches, and lifecycle assessments.
• Knowledge of IEC 62443 concepts and OT cybersecurity compliance requirements.
• Effective technical communication and cross-functional collaboration

More about us :

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while making the grid more resilient. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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