This role leads the company's OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity environments to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performance industrial technology services across sites. It owns the operation and lifecycle of OT compute, storage, virtualization, edge platforms, hosted OT systems, and industrial network connectivity that enable safe operations, digital initiatives, data platforms, and enterprise integration.
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What You Will Deliver
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Manage OT Infrastructure & Hosting Operations
- Operate and maintain OT servers, storage, virtualization, hosting platforms, and edge compute environments across industrial sites.
- Ensure availability, performance, capacity, and reliability of hosted OT systems including MES, LIMS, historians, and edge nodes.
- Execute routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, backups, lifecycle management, and infrastructure health monitoring activities.
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Oversee OT Networks & Connectivity
- Operate and maintain OT network infrastructure across plant, site, and industrial control environments.
- Ensure stable, resilient, and secure connectivity between OT systems, plant networks, data platforms, and upstream enterprise systems.
- Apply standardized network configurations, segmentation principles, connectivity patterns, and performance monitoring practices.
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Drive Standardization & Modernization
- Implement OT infrastructure, hosting, connectivity, and edge platform standards across sites and operational environments.
- Support modernization of legacy hardware, operating systems, virtualized environments, industrial networks, and hosted OT platforms.
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Ensure Reliability & Operational Resilience
- Implement redundancy, backup, recovery, monitoring, incident response, and operational resilience practices for OT infrastructure and hosted systems.
- Monitor infrastructure health and respond to incidents impacting availability, performance, reliability, connectivity, or hosted OT services.
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Lead Team, Vendors & Cross-Functional Execution
- Lead the OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity team in delivering reliable operational support and improvement initiatives.
- Coordinate with cloud, connectivity, cybersecurity, platform, data, application, and site teams to resolve dependencies and execution risks.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. Master’s Degree is preferred.
Experience
- Minimum 8–12 years of experience in OT infrastructure, industrial infrastructure, hosting, connectivity, network operations, or technology operations roles.
- Hands-on experience with OT servers, storage, virtualization, edge compute, industrial networks, MES, LIMS, historians, and site-based OT environments.
Skills That Matter
- OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity operations management
- Industrial compute, storage, virtualization, edge platforms, and hosted OT systems
- Reliability engineering, incident management, root-cause analysis, and operational resilience
Benefits
- Career Growth
- Competitive Salaries
- Comprehensive Package
- Inclusive Work Environment
- Work-Life Balance
- Employee wellness
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
