Automation IT/OT Infrastructure Engineer

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This position reports to:

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Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be a design authority for an engineering discipline. Each day, you will complete assignments on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major projects in a cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by working closely with automation and control engineers, project managers, service engineers, proposal/sales teams, customer IT and OT teams, cybersecurity specialists, ABB product experts and external suppliers/integrators, providing specialist infrastructure engineering capability within an automation team.

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

This role contributes to the Automation business area in Chile.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Design IT/OT infrastructure architectures for industrial control systems, including network topology, server and virtualization design, connectivity, redundancy and capacity requirements.
• Design, configure and troubleshoot industrial and enterprise network components used in OT environments, including IP addressing, VLANs, routing, switching, firewalls, network segmentation and communication paths.
• Engineer, deploy and support physical and virtual servers that host ABB Ability™ System 800xA, including VMware vSphere/ESXi and related infrastructure components.
• Size and optimize CPU, memory, storage and network resources to ensure stable performance, resilience and maintainability of the control-system infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain infrastructure components in line with approved engineering designs, vendor recommendations, customer standards and OT change-control practices.
• Prepare architecture diagrams, network drawings, server sizing calculations, configuration baselines, test procedures, commissioning documents and as-built records.
• Support installation, commissioning, upgrades and migrations of infrastructure solutions, including on-site troubleshooting and coordination with customer IT/OT teams.
• Provide specialist guidance to automation engineers and project teams on infrastructure dependencies, design decisions, troubleshooting and engineering practices.
• Coordinate with ABB global experts, customers, cybersecurity specialists, vendors and system integrators to resolve infrastructure issues and deliver consistent solutions.
• Apply appropriate OT cybersecurity practices as part of infrastructure design, including secure configuration, access control and network segmentation.
• Understand backup, restore, disaster recovery and availability concepts sufficiently to design infrastructure that supports recovery requirements and to coordinate with the relevant specialists.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Professional Engineering degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, Networks, Systems Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Automation Engineering with proven IT/OT infrastructure experience. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in IT infrastructure, industrial networks, virtualization or IT/OT systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting network infrastructure, preferably in industrial environments.
• Practical experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi, including virtual-machine configuration, resource allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Strong networking fundamentals and practical troubleshooting of switches, VLANs, routing, IP addressing, DNS, firewall rules and network connectivity.
• Experience with physical server infrastructure and hardware diagnostics, including CPU, memory, storage/RAID, network adapters and firmware.
• Ability to diagnose problems systematically across network, server, hypervisor, operating system and storage layers, identify root causes and document corrective actions.
• Understanding of IT/OT environments and the availability, change control and operational constraints of industrial control systems.
• Ability to design and document technical solutions.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish and English, including technical discussions and documentation.
• Availability to travel to customer sites across Chile; occasional international support or travel may be required.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience supporting ABB Ability System 800xA infrastructure, including server roles, system architecture, redundancy and dependencies.
• Windows Server administration, including domain services, DNS, certificates, patching and hardening.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity principles, such as network segmentation, least-privilege access and secure configuration; familiarity with IEC 62443 is an advantage.
• Familiarity with storage technologies, SAN/NAS, RAID, capacity planning and infrastructure performance monitoring.
• Experience with diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, packet capture, port testing and network monitoring utilities.
• Knowledge of high availability, redundancy, backup/restore and disaster recovery concepts.
• Relevant certifications in networking, virtualization or server technologies (e.g., Cisco, VMware/Broadcom or Microsoft) are beneficial.
  

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to build and strengthen IT/OT infrastructure expertise within an experienced industrial automation team.
• Work with mission-critical control systems and international ABB technologies.
• Influence infrastructure architecture and engineering standards.
• Solve challenging network, virtualization and server-performance problems.
• Collaborate with customers and global specialists.

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