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IT Infrastructure Engineer
About this role
Job Summary We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to serve as the long-term technical owner of virtualization, server, storage, backup, and network infrastructure supporting critical SCADA and engineering systems. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role responsible for operational reliability, high availability, cybersecurity alignment, and disaster recovery readiness across VMware and Hyper-V environments.
The ideal candidate has experience supporting production OT/industrial environments and understands the accountability required for systems that directly impact operational uptime. This role participates in on-call rotation, supports scheduled plant outage patch windows, and serves as a primary escalation point for infrastructure-related incidents. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Virtualization Ownership Own lifecycle management of VMware ESXi/vCenter and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Design, maintain, and optimize HA clusters (VMware HA/DRS and Hyper-V Failover Clustering). Perform hypervisor patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Optimize virtual machine performance and resource allocation. Maintain standardized templates and configuration governance. Backup & Disaster Recovery (Veeam) Administer and optimize Veeam Backup & Replication. Define and maintain RPO/RTO targets for critical systems.
Perform periodic restore validation and disaster recovery testing. Maintain documented recovery procedures and DR runbooks. Manage multi-site backup strategies, including full and incremental backups. Networking & Security Deploy and troubleshoot enterprise networks, including Firewalling, routing, and switching/VLAN architecture. Support routing fundamentals and firewall rule governance. Maintain secure IT/OT segmentation design.
Support patch compliance and vulnerability remediation initiatives. Participate in firewall reviews and security hardening efforts. Familiarity with industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC-UA) preferred. Operational Excellence & Incident Response Serve as a senior escalation point during infrastructure incidents. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) following outages or service degradation. Monitor infrastructure performance, storage health, and system capacity.