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You will serve as the primary on-site technical point of contact, ensuring our engineers, technicians, and operations teams have reliable, high-performing secure systems, while also maintaining and scaling the physical network and compute infrastructure that powers our testing and manufacturing operations (Operational Technology / OT).\nIf you thrive in high-tempo environments, are able to take ownership of unfamiliar tasks and see them through to completion, where no two days are the same, equally comfortable running cables, configuring network switches on the shop floor or or spotting something that doesn’t look right and escalating it to the security team, this is the role for you.\nWhat you'll do:\nOT & Industrial Infrastructure Maintenance: Deploy, monitor, maintain and secure local site server cabinets, industrial network switches, patch panels, cabling, power equipment (UPSs), and edge compute nodes supporting test rigs and manufacturing lines.\nNetwork & Systems Setup: Perform physical installation and basic configuration of networking gear (switches, access points, edge firewalls) in coordination with central Network and IT Security teams.\nSite Security Champion: Act as the on-site extension of the Cybersecurity team. 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