Operational Technology Expert (Remote)

 

A Day in the life: 

An OT expert work closely with local site automation engineers, regional automation working group and integrators to leverage technology use, to improve automation communication networks, virtualization, cybersecurity, and industrial connectivity in general. They are responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring such technology with a scope of a region.

 

What you'll be doing:

• Work together with IT in infrastructure and architecture of networks, aiming at the segregation between IT and OT networks following OT global standards and security policies.
• Working actively in the regional automation working group to collaborate and share best practices (wired and wireless networks strategy, virtualization, firewalls implementation, etc).
• Manage OT servers.
• Manage OT system remote access properly.
• Enhance IT-OT alignment and collaboration.
• Network virtualization management and monitoring.
• Implement the OT global standards regionally.
• Management of activities related to OT regionally (assessments, mapping gaps, project implementations and status reporting, timeline definitions, risk evaluation, etc).
• Management of the execution of the necessary maintenance, upgrades, and new projects with the operating units.
• Identify, development and follow local and regional vendors and integrators performance to support implementation process.
• Integration and data communication between the diverse layers of the network, following applicable cybersecurity protocols.
• Test OT networks vulnerabilities.
• Maintain automation programs backups.
• Generate an easy disaster recovery plan.
• Identify quality issues, gaps and writing reports, eliminate defects and errors in products and software utilization.
• Interaction with process historians, enabling communications and data for deeper analysis.
• Interaction with different communication protocols (Profibus, OPC UA and DA, Profinet, Ethernet, DeviceNet, etc.).
• Interface with several corporate and local areas, preparation of technical documents, presentations, and reports.
• Lead local site automation engineers in all these technologies.

 

Knowledge and Technical Competencies

• Knowledge Tools: Microsoft Office package, BI tools (Tableau Power BI).
• Soft skills: storytelling, curious, resilient, organized, urgent census and prioritization of demands.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excited about trying new solutions.
• Experience with project management.
• Siemens and/or Allen Bradlley PLC and scadas programming knowledge.
• Network, server, firewalls, VMware, backup, Windows servers, or Antivirus administrator knowledge.

 

Education/Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Engineering required 
• Advanced English (and local regional language if applies)
• Availability for frequent travels- at least 30%
• +5 years of firewall and OT/IT experience required.

 

The Compensation range for this position is $95,360.00-$119,200.00 compa ratio. In addition to the regular compensation, this role is also eligible for an annual incentive bonus. 

 

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the wo