Lead Specialist,Infrastructure & Hosting Platform II

Role Summary
Ma’aden is seeking a Lead Specialist, Infrastructure & Hosting Platform II to lead and own Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity across its industrial sites.

This role is responsible for the day-to-day operation, lifecycle management, and reliability of OT hosting platforms, ensuring stable compute, storage, and industrial networks that support live production operations and digital initiatives.

This is a hands-on, operational OT infrastructure role — not a corporate IT or control-systems design position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and operate OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity environments across sites

• Own OT servers, virtualization, storage, and edge compute platforms

• Ensure availability, performance, capacity, and reliability of OT-hosted systems

• Execute routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle activities

• Oversee OT network infrastructure and ensure resilient connectivity between OT systems, plant networks, and enterprise platforms

• Implement backup, redundancy, and recovery practices for OT environments

• Monitor infrastructure health, respond to incidents, and lead root-cause analysis

• Drive standardization and support modernization of legacy OT infrastructure

• Coordinate closely with site OT teams, enterprise OT architecture, and IT network teams
Platforms in Scope

• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

• Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

• Industrial historians (e.g., OSI PI, Honeywell, Siemens, Rockwell, Aveva)

• Edge compute and industrial hosting platforms

Broad familiarity is required; deep expertise in every platform is not mandatory.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Systems Engineering, or related field

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in OT or industrial infrastructure & hosting (8+ years strongly preferred)

• Hands-on experience supporting live production environments

• Strong understanding of industrial networks and OT–IT connectivity

• Experience with virtualization, storage, backup, and recovery in OT environments

• Ability to operate under uptime, availability, and incident pressure

• Strong coordination skills across site teams, architects, and IT stakeholders
Relevant Industry Experience
Experience from the following environments is highly valued:

• Mining & metals

• Oil & gas

• Utilities / power

• Heavy manufacturing

• Chemicals, cement, automotive, or food & beverage (industrial scale)
What We Offer

• Competitive salary in a tax-free environment

• Housing and transportation allowances

• 30 days of vacation plus public holidays

• Paid home leave tickets

• Complimentary meals and uniform cleaning

• Medical and life insurance

• Employee Assistance Program and worldwide complimentary room nights

• Opportunities for growth and development

• Additional family benefits
Schedule & Hours
Full-time role.