IT Infrastructure & Compute Analyst
Location: Cork, Ireland
Type: Contract (12 months, full-time)
This is a critical role within the IT function supporting a large campus in Cork, comprising multiple manufacturing plants, R&D offices, and headquarters. The team is responsible for delivering infrastructure and operations stability, performance, and compliance to global enterprise standards.
The IT Infrastructure & Compute Analyst will ensure a secure and compliant compute environment, provide support across enterprise and manufacturing systems, and drive best practices in compute operations across other sites.
Key Responsibilities
* Maintain operational performance and stability of the compute environment across the Cork campus, ensuring resilience, minimising downtime, and managing incidents.
* Oversee infrastructure patching schedules, vulnerability management, and ensure compliance with global security standards.
* Coordinate disaster recovery testing and maintain relevant security tools (e.g., SEP, BigFix).
* Act as the primary point of contact for SQL environment support.
* Lead vendor management activities including contract renewals, troubleshooting, solution scoping, and quotations.
* Support integration and lifecycle management projects involving compute, storage, backup, and manufacturing systems.
* Track and report on compute financial spend, working closely with management and finance.
* Collaborate with internal IT teams (architecture, network, workplace services, incident/change management) and business stakeholders to deliver projects and ensure operational excellence.
* Provide technical leadership and influence on IT best practices across multiple functions.
Essential Skills & Experience
* 5+ years' experience in Compute IT Operations.
* Strong technical expertise across Compute, Network, Workplace Services & Security technologies.
* Degree/Masters in IT or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
* Certifications/qualifications in Microsoft Windows OS, MS SQL, VMware, Cisco, and Azure/Cloud.
* Proven experience managing external vendors and third-party managed service providers.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to engage at all organisational levels.
Desired Skills & Experience
* 5+ years' Workplace Services experience.
* Strong executive support background.
* Experience with teleconferencing technologies and enterprise collaboration tools.
* Project and integration experience with technologies such as:
* SAN Enterprise Storage management
* Backup Appliances (Rubrik, Veritas), Tape Libraries
* ESXi VMware environment
* Cisco Switches, Cisco ISE
* Active Directory & Group Policy
* RDS/Citrix
* Symantec, WSUS, BigFix
* Service-Now (Change, Incident, Problem Management)
* Awareness of IT/OT governance strategies.
* Ability to take end-to-end ownership, influence across functions, and deliver outcomes in complex environments.