Sr Systems Administration Engineer Rutland, VT Posted today

Job Description Summary

The Sr. Systems Administration Engineer will serve as a key technical owner for all Rutland site infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and OTN. This role partners closely with shopfloor users, engineering, and site leadership to deploy, support, and continuously improve technical solutions that directly enable Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC). Responsibilities include day-to-day operations and lifecycle management, including issue resolution, root cause analysis, patching, upgrades/enhancements, and delivery of infrastructure projects.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of IT/OT, hardware, software, and manufacturing operations, translating shopfloor and business needs into stable, secure, and high-performing solutions. You will support and improve manufacturing technologies such as machine connectivity, industrial I/O, sensors, IoT-enabled devices, and network maintenance and upgrades. The role also requires the ability to work effectively with electronic hardware, take a proactive approach to hands-on troubleshooting, and read and interpret networking schematics to support troubleshooting, integration, and implementation.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical and networking infrastructure depth, a customer-driven mindset, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement in manufacturing technology environments.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the support and continuous improvement of Rutland site infrastructure (network, servers/virtualization, storage, OTN) serving shopfloor and engineering operations, ensuring availability, performance, and lifecycle health.

• Serve as the technical owner for compute and infrastructure services, improving incident resolution, complex request fulfillment, and change execution.

• Influence and improve site infrastructure designs, architectures, standards, and methods, partnering as needed with DT as well as business and production stakeholders.

• Plan and execute releases and changes (patches, upgrades, enhancements) with impact assessment, mitigation/rollback plans, and stable transitions to production.

• Proactively preventsiteinterruptions through monitoring, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and risk posture improvements.

• Identify systemic design/architecture gapsanddrive corrective actions and prevention.

• Develop and implement standard work and documentationtoeliminaterepetitive tasks, reduce repeat incidents, and improve supportability.

• Enable connected manufacturing by deploying and supporting machine connectivity, industrial I/O, sensors, IoT devices, data acquisition, and equipment-to-application integrations.

• Troubleshoot end-to-end across network, compute, hardware interfaces, and connected equipment; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions.

• Partner withinDTand cross-functionally with engineering,business,andproductionusersto deliver new capabilities and steady-statesupport aligned to SQDC.

• Oversee system health andensurealignment with architecture,site standards, and cybersecurity expectations.

• Work independently on projects while contributingbroadlyacross the team, managing scope,priorities, and executiondeadlines.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 2 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 5 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 7 years of professional experience

• Note:
  
  Military experience is equivalent to professional experience

• Eligibility Requirement:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise

• Experience supporting network and server infrastructure in a shop floorormanufacturingenvironment

• Experience with industrialnetworking(switches, routers, firewalls, VLANs, WAN/LAN) including hands-on troubleshooting

• Experienceenabling connected manufacturing technologies such asmachine connectivity, industrial I/O, sensors,and equipment integration

• Experience troubleshooting hardware-connected systems

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