IT Industrial Specialist - JHB at Tetra Pak

Job Summary

As our Information Solution business is growing significantly, we are looking to increase our competence across Europe. Consequently, we are looking to recruit experienced:

IT Industrial Specialist 

• You will be part of this new growing team, to complement the existing team in Europe. We offer you innovative and inspiring projects for digitalization in the food and beverage industry. You will be working creatively in the modern workplace of an international company with a clear perspective for technical and personal development.
• The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for networking and hardware infrastructure design, system specifications and deployment of solutions in Industrial and Virtualized environments. 
• You will work in close collaboration with the global organization, pre-project, project teams, and service teams. 
• Understanding of customer needs and translating them into the solution design comes natural to you. Your commitment and passion for Industry 4.0 technologies, together with a structured way of working and strive for results, is important to us.

The position can be based in the following countries: France (Colombes), Germany (Glinde, Germering), Greece (Athens), Hungary (Budaörs), Ireland (Dublin), Italy (Monza), Netherlands (Utrecht), South Africa, Spain (Arganda), Sweden (Lund), United Kingdom (High Wycombe).

What you will do

• Act as IT reference person in all phases of the implementation life cycle: Pre-Project, Project, and Customer Service.
• Design and deliver infrastructure architecture (in virtualized environment) and associated networking according with the project objectives, budget and timeline, including
• Design, Support, troubleshoot, and maintain network and firewall.
• Design, Administer and maintain Active Directory, Windows, VMware, and other servers and infrastructure platforms.
• Analize complex computer systems, identify problems, and develop and implement logical conclusions and effective solutions for IT Infrastructure in service operation or during projects (including but not limited to server’s hardware and software, network services).
• Compile and review relevant technical documentation as part of the different phases.
• Infrastructure architecture Guidelines/Best Practices definition in alignment with central organizations. 
• Act as an ambassador for Tetra Pak’s Information Solutions and be the differentiator between counterparties or other competition.

We believe you have

• University degree in Information Technologies with more than 3 years of experience, preferable in industry sector.
• Interest in industrial IT environments, data handling, virtual environments, networking.

Experience and knowledge within several of the following areas:

• Experience with virtualization technologies: VMware vSphere, MS HyperV.
• Experience with servers, storage, and network components of HPE, Dell, and other vendors.
• IT security, Cybersecurity and Antivirus management
• Database management
• Architecture and implementation of industrial networks.
• A very good command of English, both written and verbal is required.
• Good verbal, written & computer communication skills.
• Driving licence
• Willingness to travel
• Programming skills in C# or similar, Web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, ASP.Net, ...) are appreciated.

To be successful in this role the ideal candidate should be:

• Instinctively responsive to customer & colleague needs.
• Able to work within a team and follow standard processes.
• Logical, methodical, and committed to troubleshooting system problems.
• Able to cope with high workload being highly target and result focused.
• Capable of working on own initiative and highly flexible and self-motivated.
• Able to learn new technologies on the fly in self-studies.
• Open to cultural diversity with good interpersonal and communication skills.