Senior Specialist, Digital Foundations Lead

About the role

The Senior Specialist, Digital Foundations Lead will support the infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity, and operational technology environments that enable GMP manufacturing systems. This position works closely with manufacturing, engineering, automation, quality, cybersecurity, enterprise IT and external vendors to ensure reliable, compliant, and secure digital manufacturing operations.

Key responsibilities

• Provide day‑to‑day support for IT and OT infrastructure, including servers, networks, and shop‑floor hardware hosting manufacturing systems such as DeltaV, MES/eBR, and SCADA.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability and performance, and participate in incident management, troubleshooting and root‑cause investigations.
• Support industrial and enterprise network environments, troubleshoot connectivity issues, maintain network documentation and asset inventories.
• Coordinate infrastructure changes, ensure alignment with Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture and segregation of OT and enterprise networks.
• Implement cybersecurity controls, manage firewalls, network segmentation, vulnerability remediation and patch management.
• Participate in SDLC activities: requirements development, design reviews, testing, release management, change control and validation.
• Work with vendors and project teams to deploy new infrastructure for capital projects and facility expansions.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience supporting IT/OT infrastructure or manufacturing technology environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across IT, OT, engineering, quality and manufacturing teams.

Required skills

• Industrial networking, TCP/IP fundamentals, network architecture, and virtualization technologies (VMware).
• Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Firewall management, network segmentation, industrial DMZ environments, and cybersecurity controls.
• Experience with cloud services (Azure) and cloud‑connected manufacturing services.
• Understanding of Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture and IT/OT convergence principles.
• Familiarity with manufacturing systems (DeltaV, MES/eBR, SCADA) and shop‑floor hardware (barcode scanners, printers).