Responsibilities
- Manage, maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and optimize SCADA systems and associated OT infrastructure.
- Support installation, troubleshooting, configuration, modification, and lifecycle maintenance of: PLCs, Allen-Bradley ControlLogix controllers, HMI systems, Remote Control Units (RCUs), Telemetry Systems, Communications Hardware/Software, Industrial Networking Components.
- Perform firmware and software upgrades, patch management, and system performance tuning.
- Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, network, and communications failures impacting operations.
- Maintain backup, redundancy, disaster recovery, and contingency systems to support continuous operations.
- Implement and maintain cybersecurity controls for OT environments in accordance with NIST cybersecurity framework principles.
- Monitor for, respond to, document, and assist in remediation of IT/OT security incidents.
- Administer role based access controls, user provisioning, permissions, and authentication controls.
- Support system hardening, vulnerability management, patching, and security documentation.
- Ensure OT infrastructure aligns with organizational cybersecurity policies and regulatory requirements.
- Administer Windows Server and Windows workstation environments supporting industrial systems.
- Manage Active Directory users, groups, access permissions, and domain-related services.
- Configure and maintain: Virtual Servers, Network-Connected PCs, Industrial Switches, Communications Infrastructure, Client/server Applications, Database Environments.
- Monitor server health, storage utilization, system resources, and network performance.
- Oversee installation and deployment of new servers, operating systems, and application software.
- Review and analyze operational business workflows and software systems to identify improvement opportunities.
- Gather business and technical requirements from operational stakeholders.
- Design, prototype, test, and implement software enhancements and systems integrations.
- Develop technical solutions supporting: Regulatory Reporting, Inventory Management, Waste Tracking, Scheduling Systems, Field Operational Systems, Compliance Applications, Customer Tracking Platforms.
- Evaluate technology solutions for operational efficiency and long-term business needs.
- Lead implementation projects involving OT/IT infrastructure upgrades, SCADA improvements, and application deployments.
- Coordinate testing, commissioning, rollout, and post-deployment support for new systems.
- Develop project plans, timelines, risk mitigation strategies, and implementation documentation.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to technical staff, vendors, and contractors.
- Conduct technical presentations, training sessions, and knowledge transfer activities.
- Maintain accurate operational documentation, network diagrams, system configurations, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
- Develop technical specifications, logic flow diagrams, and system architecture documentation.
- Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements for system modernization and resiliency.
- Support audit readiness and regulatory inspections related to system controls and cybersecurity.
- Support enterprise applications as assigned.
- Provide after-hours support for critical operational incidents.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Strong technical expertise in industrial automation and IT/OT infrastructure.
- Leadership, project management, and systems analysis capabilities.
- Experience managing SCADA systems and OT infrastructure.
- Familiarity with PLCs, HMI platforms, telemetry, communications networks, servers, databases, and cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of NIST cybersecurity framework principles.
- Experience with firmware and software upgrades, patch management, and system performance tuning.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve hardware, software, network, and communications failures.
- Experience maintaining backup, redundancy, disaster recovery, and contingency systems.
- Experience administering role-based access controls, user provisioning, permissions, and authentication controls.
- Experience with system hardening, vulnerability management, and security documentation.
- Familiarity with organizational cybersecurity policies and regulatory requirements.
- Experience administering Windows Server and Windows workstation environments.
- Experience managing Active Directory users, groups, access permissions, and domain-related services.
- Experience configuring and maintaining virtual servers, industrial switches, communications infrastructure, client/server applications, and database environments.
- Ability to monitor server health, storage utilization, system resources, and network performance.
- Experience overseeing installation and deployment of servers, operating systems, and application software.
- Ability to analyze operational workflows and software systems to identify improvements.
- Ability to gather business and technical requirements from stakeholders.
- Experience designing, prototyping, testing, and implementing software enhancements and systems integrations.
- Experience developing technical solutions for regulatory reporting, inventory management, waste tracking, scheduling, field operations, compliance, and customer tracking.
- Ability to evaluate technology solutions for operational efficiency and long-term business needs.
- Experience leading OT/IT infrastructure upgrade projects, SCADA improvements, and application deployments.
- Ability to coordinate testing, commissioning, rollout, and post-deployment support.
- Experience developing project plans, timelines, risk mitigation strategies, and implementation documentation.
- Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to staff, vendors, and contractors.
- Experience conducting technical presentations, training sessions, and knowledge transfer.
- Ability to maintain accurate operational documentation, network diagrams, system configurations, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
- Experience developing technical specifications, logic flow diagrams, and system architecture documentation.
- Ability to research emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
- Experience supporting audit readiness and regulatory inspections.
Additional Information
- After-hours support for critical operational incidents is required.