IT - Technical Engineer - OM Ships

OM Marketing; Florence (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

OM Ships International in Florence, SC seeks an IT Infrastructure & Security Lead to oversee networks, servers, and system software for OMSI offices and remote users, ensuring reliable, secure operations.

You will design and audit infrastructure changes, select external providers, implement security controls, monitor for breaches, and develop a Business Continuity Plan with redundancy, UPS, and recovery procedures to keep critical systems available.

Qualifications

• IT infrastructure planning
• Security auditing and monitoring
• Vendor management
• Business continuity planning

Responsibilities

• Identify/Propose modifications or new designs for infrastructure.
• Identify/Agree on external service providers.
• Audit security systems against policies.
• Monitor logs and systems for breaches.
• Maintain and implement Business Continuity Plan (BCP).
• Create, update and audit hardware/software inventories.

Job description

KE Y RES U LT ARE AS

Architecture

Responsible for all IT infrastructures (networks (LAN, WAN), servers, system software and tools, etc.) for OM Ships (Mosbach, Ships, Florence, remote users, etc.) in order for OMSI to be able to efficiently and effectively operate its IT tools.

Core activities

• Identify/Propose all modifications, changes or new designs for the infrastructure.
• Identify/Agree on external service providers, such as, web hosting sites.
• Security

Play a significant role in designing and implementing our security systems in order to help ensure our IT systems are safe.

Core activities

• Audit security systems against agreed plans/policies.
• Monitor logs and systems for signs of breaches/non compliances.
• Remains current on the potential security risks from external parties and ensures the most recent security protection is available.
• Help bring a ‘security first’ mindset to new systems implementations.
• Business Continuity

Responsible for the establishment and execution of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), including the components of required redundancy, UPS, and back-up/recovery in order to ensure business continuity of the IT systems.

Core activities1

• Create, Update & Audit the BCP
• Hardware/Software

Direct the analysis, selection, and ongoing maintenance of all hardware and system software components and tools in order to achieve the ICT strategy.

Core activities

• Manage and coordinates support for technical hardware and system software problems.
• Approve the technology and technical environment within which a proposed application is to operate.
• Ensure that the technology is supportable, trainable and maintainable over the expected duration of use.
• Maintain Technical Documentation for current system.

1All Core Activities should describe the key Performance Standards needed to accomplish the KRA and should answer the question: This will have been done well when I …..

The following KRAs are an integral part of each job description for everybody serving with OM Ships International.

Ministry involvement

• Ensure you are actively involved in team life at your location when possible, in order to ensure you are ministering to others and being ministered to.

Core activities

• Actively participate on a regular basis in team devotions, prayer times, meetings and social functions.
• Serve practically within the team to ensure whatever needs to be done is done well and the load is shared around.
• Seek to be an encouragement to your fellow team members.
• Compensation - Support base development

Actively develop and maintain a prayer and financial support base for your ministry with OM Ships International in order to resource your ministry and that of OM Ships with prayer and financial resources.

Core activities

• Maintain regular contact with your prayer partners, financial supporters and sending church(es)
• developing relationships that minister to them and further your partnership with them.
• Develop your prayer and financial support base on a continual basis by asking individuals, groups and churches to join your support team as you have opportunity.
• Safe working practices

Ensure work is carried out in accordance with written and verbal communicated internal and external safety, environmental and country specific legal regulation in order to ensure safe working practice and avoidance of intentional disability.

Core activities

• Ensure that both your own and the area you are working in is kept clean, orderly and safe.
• Ensure a safe and correct usage and adequate maintenance of used tools and equipment.
• Work in accordance with verbal and written communicated safety and environmental regulations and understand and know the risks and risk assessments related to your role and duties.
• Ensure you are aware if applicable of the relevant International Safety Management Code (ISM) requirements for your role and / or location, including the annual reviews of ISM and International Ship & Port Security Code (ISPS) systems