Operational Technology & IT Systems Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year

Requirements:

• Production-first mindset and calm, structured troubleshooting under pressure
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills to work across Operations, Engineering, Finance, and third-party vendors
• Experience supporting systems in a manufacturing or industrial environment, or in a role with high uptime requirements
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including IP, VLANs, routing concepts, and their impact on shop-floor systems
• Practical experience supporting Windows endpoints and basic server or service dependencies in an operational environment
• Working knowledge of SQL fundamentals
• Ability to coordinate vendors and maintain disciplined documentation
• Desirable: experience supporting production data systems and integrations
• Desirable: experience with IT segmentation concepts and vendor access governance
• Desirable: Power BI or reporting awareness
• Desirable: experience with ticketing systems and basic ITIL-style incident and change processes

Responsibilities:

• Support and maintain plant-floor PCs, terminals, and industrial endpoints used in production operations
• Troubleshoot Operational Technology connectivity in collaboration with Engineering and vendors
• Support OT network structure and segmentation, including VLANs and access paths
• Own the reliability, monitoring, and issue resolution of production systems and data flows
• Work with the DBA and Systems Development Engineer to troubleshoot SQL and ETL job failures affecting production reporting or operational decision-making
• Perform daily health checks on production data flows
• Review production-impacting alerts and incidents daily and follow the required escalation path
• Maintain an up-to-date Operational Technology asset inventory
• Support and develop manufacturing systems, production data systems, and business reporting

Technologies:

• ETL
• Support
• ITIL
• Network
• Power BI
• SQL
• Security
• Windows
• Flow

More:

We are recruiting for an Operational Technology & IT Systems Engineer to improve the reliability of factory-floor systems and production data flows, bridging IT, OT, and business reporting needs. In this manufacturing environment, technology issues can affect production uptime, safety, and customer delivery. The role supports plant-floor technology and production data, working closely with the Infrastructure & Security Engineer on secure OT network segmentation and with the DBA & Systems Development Engineer on resilient SQL and reporting pipelines. Vibe Recruit is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

last updated 40 week of 2026