IT Systems Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Install and configure operating systems, software, and hardware components, and clearly document the design, maintenance, and support procedures for routine tasks to leverage IT support staff
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel to conduct high-level root-cause analysis for service interruption and establish preventive measures
• Standardize and automate processes and monitoring using scripting
• Define and implement secure infrastructure solutions between on premise data centers, Factories, and commercial clouds
• Work closely with the Applications team to ensure standard solutions and technologies are correctly leveraged by the Factory Support Teams
• Work extended hours as needed including being available for off hours production support
• Help the Plant engineers and application development team navigate through the right integration environment when choosing the right services
• Develop new and maintain existing documentation for Infrastructure designs, as well as on-going operational and administrative procedures
• Work closely with network and cloud engineers to implement IT infrastructure solutions and ensure established processes and policies are adhered to
• Conduct research as required for new infrastructure technologies, and help develop best practices and patterns to aid in the adoption of new technologies that are appropriate to the company's requirements (especially with Plants)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience is beneficial
• 8+ years of hands on experience within IT Infrastructure, Systems Administration, Security Controls, and Networks
• Strong demonstrated experience within the IT Security Controls on the whole IT landscape (Servers, Network and Application Stacks)
• Strong Factory Automation with IT systems experience
• Proven knowledge with Hosting and Storage: Compute (Linux, Windows) Virtualization (VMWare) and FAS systems
• Solid Cloud experience, preferably in AWS
• Proven scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Powershell)
• Good verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to communicate with people at all levels in the organization
• Ability to interpret a variety of FAS instruments and blue prints including Six Sigma
• Experience in the food/produce industry or in a CPG environment
• Five or more years of hands on experience in which one or more of the following occurred:
• Demonstrated competency in strategic and design thinking with strong abilities in Infrastructure/FAS systems setup
• Successfully developed and implemented application solutions in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies

Pay

Salary Type: Exempt

Schedule

On-site