Senior Automation Specialist - Industrial IoT, Global

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Innovation Group

The global Innovation team curates efficient and agile strategies and solutions to enable rapid, quality deployments through consistent and scalable products across Vantage's company wide portfolio. We collaborate with a wide breadth ofglobal and regional teamsandrecognize that continuous learning and development requires a culture of openness, transparency, and trust. We are dedicated to investing in channels for collaboration that encourage our team members to amplify their individual ideas and impact.

We believe in the power of data and technology to drive progress, and we invest in the tools and resources that will help us stay ahead of the curve. By embracing innovation, we cultivate meaningful and lasting impact for the company,its shareholders,andourcustomers.

Position Overview

Vantage is seeking aSenior

Industrial IoT, Global to lead global industrial automation initiatives andaccelerateour adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. In this role, you will combine technicalexpertisewith strategic oversight to develop, standardize, and implement scalable solutions across our global data center portfolio. You will work closely with cross-functional teams todesignsecure,reliable, and efficient systems thatdemocratize data andenabledigitaltransformation.

You will alsobe responsible forestablishingand maintaining global standards, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborate withcross-functional teams including design, engineering,IT,cybersecurity,operations, and sustainability to develop, implement, andoptimizeindustrialautomationdesigns andstandardsacross Vantage's global data center product line.

• Build relationships withregionalpeers and internal customers to understand their needs, discover opportunities,develop solutions,solicit feedback, capture lessons learned, andfacilitatethetransferof knowledge globally.

• Provideindustrial Io Texpertiseand  guidance across all regions and organizational levels.

• Developandmaintainautomation standards such as telemetry requirements,IIoTdevice specifications,MQTTbroker specifications, pub/sub architectures,UNSspecifications, etc.

• Createsecure,robust,scalable, and cost-effectivetelemetrysolutionsthatmeet internal and external customer requirements.

• Lead the development ofsystems thatoptimizedataintegrity, availability,andthroughputto enableadvanced technologies such as machine learning, AI operators,and digital twins.

• Contribute to QA/QC standardization to enhance quality product turnover.

• Partner with regional teams to takenew technologies and designs from concept to first-of-kind deployment.

• Craft business cases for research and development opportunities including cost, schedule, performance, and testing requirements.

• Provide leadership and training toteam members, contractors, and consultants.

Job Requirements

• Deep understanding of Industry 4.0technologiesand conceptssuch asMQTT, OPC-UA,real-time telemetry,unifiednamespaces,IIoTdevices,virtualization,Inductive Automation Ignition,etc.

• Knowledge of industry standards, including
  
  ISA-95,the Purdue model, andISA/IEC 62443.

• Experienceauthoringautomation design standards, specifications, and requirements.

• Knowledge of operational technology (OT) networktopologiesand protocols, such as device level ring (DLR) and resilient ethernet protocol (REP).

• Experience with big data telemetry, analytics, and infrastructure monitoring.

• Experience with
  
  IIoTdatabases(ex.
  
  SQL, No
  
  SQL,time-series) andscripting languages (ex.
  
  Python, JavaScript)

• Experience selecting, managing, and collaborating with external vendors, contractors, and consultants.

• 5+years ofindustrialautomationexperiencewithin missioncriticalenvironmentsrequired.

• Bachelor of Science…