Global Systems Administrator - 24/7 Manufacturing IT

IKO North America; Agawam (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Match

Paid Vacation

Floating Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

IKO Industries Ltd. is seeking a Global Systems Administrator to design, implement, and optimize core IT infrastructure across global manufacturing environments.

You will partner with IT, engineering, and suppliers to ensure uptime, security, and performance of data centres, cloud, and industrial systems. The role supports a 24/7 manufacturing footprint and focuses on automation, standardization, and proactive improvement of infrastructure and OT environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience across 24/7 manufacturing or enterprise IT environments is highly valued.
• Hands-on virtualization, cloud, on-premises and data center operations knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize servers, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments across global facilities.
• Collaborate with IT, engineering, and vendors to deploy manufacturing computing systems.
• Lead incident response, patching, security and governance in line with standards.
• Support disaster recovery planning and backups for data integrity.

Skills

Strong communication

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Vendor management

On-call readiness

Prioritization

Security and compliance awareness

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

VMware ESXi 6.x/7.x

Windows Server 2016/2019/2022

Active Directory

Microsoft 365 administration

Microsoft Azure

Linux

Enterprise storage

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring tools

Siemens WinCC/TIA Portal

Rockwell/FactoryTalk

ThinManager/VDI/Terminal Services

HP/Dell enterprise servers

Job description

IKO Industries Ltd. is seeking a Global Systems Administrator to design, implement, and optimize core IT infrastructure across global manufacturing environments.

You will partner with IT, engineering, and suppliers to ensure uptime, security, and performance of data centres, cloud, and industrial systems. The role supports a 24/7 manufacturing footprint and focuses on automation, standardization, and proactive improvement of infrastructure and OT environments.