
Virtual Systems Engineer III, Operational Technology
- Des Moines, IA
- $83,800-134,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
This is an exempt level position.***ADM would consider placing this position in any large ADM manufacturing facility. Potential locations include: Decatur, IL; Cedar Rapids, IA; Clinton, IA; Marshall, MN; Columbus, NE.Position Summary:
As a key member of the Operational Technology (OT) team, you will be responsible for advancing the capabilities and performance of technology systems infrastructure within the ADM OT/Process Automation (PA) environment, including server hardware, physical and virtual machine deployment and maintenance.You will work closely with OT engineers and PA engineers, and partner with key business segments, Global Technology (GT, which is ADM's IT dept.), and your global OT peers to provide enhanced plant support and high-quality system delivery.Job Responsibilities:
- Create standards and build instructions for system infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers, VM farms, and other systems
- Incorporate security-by-design into all solutions, ensuring that security requirements are considered concurrently with technical requirements
- Deploy systems per ADM standards and build instructions
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and repair systems
- Provide support to others who deploy or maintain systems
- Provide end user support both for systems related issues and other infrastructure and applications supported by the OT team
- Seek out opportunities for continuous improvement of systems and processes and propose improvement activities
- Liaise with 3rd party vendors when appropriate to create engineering solutions and continuous improvement proposals
- Continuous personal development, ensuring technical skills are kept up to date and non-technical skills are gained and improved
- Apply base cross-functional technical knowledge during design processes
- Provide boots on the ground support for ADM plants - limited PC/end user support, AD administration, application upgrades/break fix, etc.
- Accurately document existing systems and basic physical networking
- Some travel and on-call work are expected as part of this position
- Solid knowledge of Windows Sever based infrastructure services such as Hyper-V, Active Directory, and DNS
- Expert knowledge of the MS Windows Server Operating System
- Knowledge of VMWare Cloud Foundation products, including vSphere, vSAN, vCenter
- Experience of working as a technology generalist with a high-level understanding of end-to-end solutions including infrastructure, applications, databases, networking, and security
- Familiarity with the use of out-of-band server management for monitoring and configuring servers
- Integrations between segregated network zones such as OT, iDMZ, IT
- Experience in providing systems engineering expertise in support of incident and request resolution
- Ability to create implementation and build documentation
- Thorough understanding of system and virtualization security principles and technologies
- Technical experience with Process automation systems, including Rockwell or Emerson would be considered a valuable skill, but not a requirement for this position.
- B.S. Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar technical discipline
- 1+ years' experience supporting enterprise-level technology operations and services, including experience managing the lifecycle, maintenance, and upgrades of network technologies
- Experience designing and deploying VMWare virtual environments
- Networking knowledge and experience.
- Experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience with Docker or other containers and container orchestration
- Experience in a manufacturing environment and 24/7 environments
- 5+ years' experience
- Physical wellness - medical/Rx, dental, vision and on-site wellness center access or gym reimbursement (as applicable).
- Financial wellness - flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401(k) with matching contributions and cash balance plan, discounted employee stock purchasing program, life insurance, disability, workers' compensation, legal assistance, identity theft protection.
- Mental and social wellness - Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and Colleague Giving Programs (ADM Cares).
- Paid time off including paid holidays.
- Adoption assistance and paid maternity and parental leave.
- Tuition assistance.
- Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language training and mentoring programs.