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In this role, you will be a partner with business and technology teams to assess opportunities, explore emerging solutions, and recommend practical approaches that balance business value, risk, and operational needs.\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys learning new technologies, evaluating their potential impact, and influencing decisions across a variety of infrastructure domains. You'll work closely with stakeholders to help shape infrastructure direction while supporting both near-term initiatives and long-term technology planning.\nThis position is an in-office role in Wichita, KS, Tulsa, OK, Houston, TX, or Scottsdale, AZ.Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.\n\nWhat You Will Do\nPartner with business and IT stakeholders to understand challenges, goals, and opportunities, translating them into practical infrastructure recommendations.\nProactively identify opportunities to improve infrastructure capabilities, reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and industry trends across cloud, networking, security, automation, endpoint, and platform technologies to determine business applicability.\nConduct research, proof of concepts, and technology assessments to validate potential solutions and support informed decision-making.\nAssess technology alternatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and develop recommendations based on business requirements, risk, cost, and operational impact.\nContribute to the development and evolution of infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.\nCollaborate with application, platform, and infrastructure teams to support solution design across on-premises, hybrid, virtualized, and cloud environments.\nDevelop architecture diagrams, technical recommendations, and supporting documentation that enable alignment and consistent execution across teams.\nPartner with teams supporting manufacturing and operational technology environments to evaluate infrastructure solutions that support business outcomes.\nInfluence stakeholders and technology teams through technical expertise, thoughtful analysis, and effective communication.\n\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nExperience in IT architecture, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles involving solution design and implementation.\nExperience with multiple infrastructure technology domains, such as cloud, compute, storage, networking, endpoint management, mobility, or security.\nExperience researching, evaluating, testing, or implementing emerging technologies, products, or industry trends.\nExperience designing, implementing, or supporting cloud solutions within AWS or Azure environments.\nExperience communicating technical recommendations, technology assessments, or architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.\n\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nExperience supporting Operational Technology (OT), manufacturing systems, or Plant/Process Control Networks (PCN).\nFamiliarity with cloud-native architectures and services within AWS or Azure.\nExperience evaluating and recommending new technologies through proof-of-concept, pilot, or assessment activities.\nExperience influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders without direct authority.\nExperience utilizing GenAI to improve efficiency in a professional setting.\n\nFor this role, we anticipate paying $145,000 - $165,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.\nAt Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.\nHiring Philosophy\nAll Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.\n\nWho We Are\nAs a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.\nAt Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.\n\nOur Benefits\nOur goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.\nAdditionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.\n\nEqual Opportunities\nEqual Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. 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