IT/OT Infrastructure Engineer

The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre are seeking engineers who want to innovate and apply their knowledge to the challenges of industry and society to support Digital Engineering activities within AMIC’s advanced manufacturing activities.

You will apply your specialist knowledge and experience of methods and processes, to generate innovative research outputs which have a direct economic and technical benefit to companies and sectors. You will work collaboratively with your team, industry, technology providers, national technology centres and academia to deliver key projects focused on advanced manufacturing.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:

• Honours degree or equivalent in computing, engineering or a related discipline with significant relevantindustrial experience OR minimum HND in a related discipline with extensive recent and relevant industrial experience.
• Demonstrable recent and relevant experience in IT/OT convergence methodologies.
• A clear and strong understanding of any of the following DevOps, CI/CD, Git or SDLC (softwaredevelopment life cycle).
• Strong knowledge of connectivity technologies – e.g. ethernet, Wi-Fi, cellular and other relevant IOTcommunication tech.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with configuration of network equipment, servers and industrial equipmentwith cyber security a key consideration.
• Demonstrable evidence of competence in the configuration and maintenance of virtual machines and/orcontainerised applications.
• Demonstrable experience in systems integration, data flow management, and automating workflows betweenseparate software packages.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

This is a 3 year fixed term post. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more on our website.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit our website.

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