Regional IT Infrastructure Engineer

Valeo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 6,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo IT Center IN in Chennai is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer for regional design, operation and management of corporate IT infrastructure. The role focuses on roll-out of standards, cost control, and minimized service disruption across ~8 sites and thousands of endpoints.

In this senior position you will supervise suppliers, manage incidents, assist in budget planning and uphold security while delivering reliable IT services for R&D and production environments in the India region.

Qualifications

• At least 15-18 years of IT experience with a strong technical background.
• Fluent English (Toeic 785 or equivalent).
• Supplier management, project management, and clear reporting to internal customers/vendors.
• Autonomous, proactive problem-solver with ability to propose solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage perimeter IT infrastructure: data centers, workstations, telecom, security.
• Deploy standard group infrastructure within plants and R&D standards.
• Define and ensure service levels; manage incidents not covered by outsourcers.
• Assist in IT budgeting and vendor/outsourcing management.
• Maintain confidentiality and security across regional IT footprint.
• Lead regional IT infrastructure rollouts and continuous improvement.

Skills

IT Infrastructure

Supplier management

Project management

Reporting

English fluency

Server Asset Management

Autonomous working

Customer management

Analytical Troubleshooting

Powershell / Python

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Active Directory (DC, GPO)

Hyper-V

Windows Server

RHEL/Unix

SQL Server

Commvault

Centreon/Prometheus

Powershell / Python

Job description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Mission

IT Center IN is responsible for IT Network infrastructure design, operation and management for the India region (total ~ 8 sites, ~6K users, ~7K endpoints, ~250 Servers (VM and Physical).

As a member of this team, your mission will be to roll-out and manage Corporate and/or industry IT infrastructure standards and best practices across the entire region, improve infrastructure efficiency, keep its costs under control, reduce service disruption and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

• Perimeter: Data centers, Workstations, Telecommunication, Security.

• Deploy standard group infrastructure within plants.

• Support R&D technical standards.

• Select and manage national outsourcers.

• Define & ensure different levels of service.

• Promote innovation at regional level.

• Guarantee confidentiality of information.

• Manage incidents not treated by outsourcers.

• Assists in preparation of the IT budget.

Past experience

At least 15-18 years of past IT experience and very strong technical background (such as a Master’s degree in Computer Science).

Skillset

You must have high autonomy, a good understanding of underlying IT concepts, strong motivation to learn, and resourcefulness in proposing adequate solutions to complex problems.

Required transversal and communication skills:

• Supplier management.

• Project management.

• Reporting and communication with internal customers / Vendors.

• Fluent English (Toeic 785 or similar level).

• Server Asset Management.

• Autonomous working capabilities.

• Customer management.

• Analytical Troubleshooting.

Required technical skills (similar competing technologies also accepted):

Basic Knowledge on services

• WAN / LAN / WiFi (TCP/IP, VPN, QoS, Cisco, wiring best practices)

• Telephony & audio/video conferencing (CUCM, Analog, VoIP, ToIP)

• Active Directory (DC, GPO), DHCP, DNS, SMTP

Strong Knowledge on Servers, Storage, Middleware, Datacenter

• Datacenter (Cooling, Fire prevention, Racking)

• Server hardware (UPS, servers, SANs, SAN Switches)

• Virtualization Hypervisor (Hyper-V)

• Server OS (Mainly Windows, but also RHEL and other Unixes)

• Backup & DRP (Commvault)

• Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres)

• File and print servers (Microsoft), proxies (Squid, HTTP, SOCKS)

• Remote Desktop Services (Servers, Thin Clients)

• R&D server software (license servers, PLM, …)

• Monitoring (Centreon / Prometheus)

• VIQCT

• Scripting (Powershell / Python)

• ITSM

• Ticket Management / Process Improvement

Security

• Internal audit / Security audit

• Anti virus (McAfee, XDR, TRILIX)

• Syslog, Splunk

Skills on other IT infrastructure topics (Network, Network Services, Servers, Storage, Middleware, Databases, Datacenter, User environment and support, Security) are also highly valued.

Mobility / other

The job requires frequent on-site visits to supervise suppliers, perform maintenance tasks, introduce and/or roll-out new technologies, execute security audits, and so on. Expect up to days per month on business trips, mostly in but sometimes in and occasionally other Asian countries.

For system maintenance or urgent system issues, it is also sometimes required to work late at night or during weekends. Average overtime is 2~3 hours per day.

Job:

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Organization:

Regional IT Infrastructure

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-03-16

_Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:

• one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries… which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
• a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com_