Automation IT/OT Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

ABB is hiring an Automation IT/OT Infrastructure Engineer in Santiago, Chile, reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager. The role acts as a design authority for an engineering discipline, working on multiple projects of moderate size or parts of major ones, and works closely with automation and control engineers, project managers, service engineers, sales teams, customer IT and OT teams, cybersecurity specialists and external suppliers. The work model is hybrid.

Key responsibilities

• Design IT/OT infrastructure architectures for industrial control systems, including network topology, server and virtualization design, connectivity, redundancy and capacity.
• Design, configure and troubleshoot industrial and enterprise network components such as IP addressing, VLANs, routing, switching, firewalls and network segmentation.
• Engineer, deploy and support physical and virtual servers hosting ABB Ability System 800xA, including VMware vSphere/ESXi, and size CPU, memory, storage and network resources.
• Maintain infrastructure according to approved designs, vendor recommendations, customer standards and OT change-control practices.
• Prepare architecture diagrams, network drawings, server sizing calculations, configuration baselines, test procedures, commissioning documents and as-built records.
• Support installation, commissioning, upgrades and migrations, and provide specialist guidance to automation engineers and project teams.
• Apply OT cybersecurity practices, including secure configuration, access control and network segmentation, and understand backup, restore, disaster recovery and availability concepts.

Required profile

• Engineering degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, Networks, Systems Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Automation Engineering, with proven IT/OT infrastructure experience; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in IT infrastructure, industrial networks, virtualization or IT/OT systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting network infrastructure, preferably in industrial environments.
• Ability to diagnose problems across network, server, hypervisor, OS and storage layers and document corrective actions.
• Spanish and English at a professional level, including technical discussions and documentation.
• Availability to travel to customer sites across Chile; occasional international support or travel may be required.

Required skills

• VMware vSphere/ESXi, including VM configuration, resource allocation, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Networking fundamentals: switches, VLANs, routing, IP addressing, DNS, firewall rules.
• Physical server infrastructure and hardware diagnostics (CPU, memory, storage/RAID, network adapters, firmware).
• Desirable: ABB Ability System 800xA support, Windows Server administration, IEC 62443, SAN/NAS, Wireshark, high availability and disaster recovery concepts; networking, virtualization or server certifications are beneficial.