BMS/BAS & Video Systems Lead — Data Center Reliability

Lightedge; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LightEdge Solutions is seeking a Critical Systems Administrator to own and optimize BMS/BAS and video-management platforms across data centers. You will lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, and lifecycle management for building automation and security camera infrastructure.

The role emphasizes consolidation, standardization, and automation, coordinating with Security, Facilities, and IT teams to reduce incidents and manual work while improving platform reliability and security.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience supporting BMS/BAS, building automation, controls systems, facilities technology, or comparable critical systems.
• Experience administering or supporting an enterprise Video Management System (VMS) and associated camera infrastructure.
• Windows Server administration, automation tools, and scripting experience (PowerShell, Python) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, update, and troubleshoot all company BMS/BAS platforms, including Tridium Niagara, WebCTRL, Metasys, or comparable systems.
• Provide first-line and advanced support for BMS incidents, requests, alarms, configuration issues, communication failures, and application problems.
• Manage environmental monitoring, controls, alarms, schedules, trends, graphics, points, users, permissions, integrations, and site configuration.
• Troubleshoot supervisory servers, services, certificates, authentication, network connectivity, gateways, controllers, and related infrastructure.
• Distinguish platform, network, integration, controller, sensor, and field-device issues; coordinate specialized support when needed.
• Maintain platform inventories, licensing, lifecycle status, support contacts, dependencies, recovery procedures, and technical documentation.
• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise Video Management Systems (VMS) and security camera infrastructure across locations.
• Coordinate with Security, Facilities, Network, Infrastructure, integrators, and field service providers on platform and device-level issues.
• Own incidents, requests, changes, problems, and escalations from initial triage through resolution and documentation.
• Provide timely stakeholder updates and maintain clear work notes, technical records, troubleshooting guides, procedures, and runbooks.
• Coordinate patching, upgrades, certificates, backups, recovery testing, service accounts, and lifecycle activities with Infrastructure and Cybersecurity.
• Maintain secure configurations, access controls, and change-management practices.
• Establish standards for architecture, naming, configurations, alarm management, monitoring, documentation, access, and new-site deployments.
• Assess overlapping BMS and VMS platforms; develop plans to consolidate, standardize, migrate, or retire systems; automate repetitive tasks using scripts or APIs.

Skills

BMS/BAS troubleshooting

VMS expertise

Incident management

Documentation

Networking basics

Education

Niagara certification

Tools

Tridium Niagara/N4

WebCTRL

Metasys

BACnet/IP

PowerShell

Job description

LightEdge Solutions is seeking a Critical Systems Administrator to own and optimize BMS/BAS and video-management platforms across data centers. You will lead troubleshooting, incident resolution, and lifecycle management for building automation and security camera infrastructure.

The role emphasizes consolidation, standardization, and automation, coordinating with Security, Facilities, and IT teams to reduce incidents and manual work while improving platform reliability and security.