IT & Data 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, and routing concepts, and how connectivity affects shop-floor systems
• Practical experience supporting Windows endpoints and basic server or service dependencies in an operational environment
• Working knowledge of SQL fundamentals
• Confidence coordinating vendors and maintaining 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
• Conduct daily health checks on production data flows
• Review production-impacting alerts and incidents daily and ensure the appropriate escalation path is followed
• Maintain an up-to-date Operational Technology asset inventory
• Help monitor, maintain, and develop business data systems and reporting, ensuring data quality and documentation
• Work with the Infrastructure and Security Engineer to support secure OT network segmentation
• Work with the DBA and Systems Development Engineer to maintain resilient SQL and reporting pipelines

Technologies:

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

More:

We are a leading manufacturing business with an ambitious systems development program, and we are recruiting an IT & Data Systems Engineer to help improve the reliability of factory-floor systems and production data flows. This role bridges IT, Operational Technology, and business reporting needs in a production environment where technology issues can affect uptime, safety, and customer delivery. You will work closely with Infrastructure and Security, database, systems development, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and third-party vendors. Vibe Recruit is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.

last updated 40 week of 2026