Description
Summary:
This multi-disciplinary role involves shaping the digital backbone of renewable assets, modernizing networks, and enhancing cybersecurity maturity in an IT/OT team.
Highlights:
1. Lead OT/IT infrastructure planning and project implementation.
2. Drive modernization of legacy industrial networks for robust security.
3. Broaden your scope into IT, networking, and cyber while in the industrial world.
We're looking for an experienced OT/SCADA Engineer (automation engineers are also welcome) to join our IT/OT team and help shape the digital backbone of our client's renewable assets in Portugal — hydro dams, wind farms, and battery storage systems.
This is a hands\-on, multi\-disciplinary role where you'll work across OT and IT infrastructure projects, system administration, cybersecurity, and emerging topics such as AI applied to industrial data. You will play a key role in modernizing legacy networks, raising cybersecurity maturity, and ensuring the reliability of systems that directly support the energy transition.
If you come from a SCADA or automation background and want to broaden your scope into IT, networking, and cyber — while keeping one foot firmly in the industrial world — this role is built for you.
**What you'll be doing:**
* Lead OT/IT infrastructure planning and project implementation (IT and OT)
* Drive the modernization of legacy industrial networks toward robust, segmented, and secure architectures
* Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
* Help align infrastructure architecture with cybersecurity guidelines or best practices
* Oversee communication with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
* Be responsible for troubleshooting network, hardware and software issues
* Be part of design and implementation of processes for ensuring efficient IT operations in an organization
* Communicate with internal stakeholders to identify their requirement and ensure their needs are met
**What you need to be successful**
* \+10 years of working experience with OT or IT administration
* Experience with networking (firewalls, routers, switches)
* Experience with fundamentals of cybersecurity
* Experience with Windows and Linux administration
* Experience with virtual machines
It's an advantage to have:
* Degree in a relevant subject (Computer science or computing engineering)
* Experience as SCADA Engineer or in automation (platforms like Wonderware/AVEVA, PcVue, Ignition)
* Exposure to OT cybersecurity tools (Claroty, Nozomi, Tenable OT)
* Experience with project management
* Experience with network monitoring software
* Experience with programming languages or scripting
* Experience with industrial protocols (Modbus, IEC 60870\-5\-104, OPC UA)
* Familiarity with NIS2
**Competencies needed:**
* You are a versatile professional, comfortable working across multiple technical domains
* You are pro\-active, result oriented and have a strong sense of responsibility
* You succeed as part of a team and it comes naturally to you to collaborate and share knowledge
* Generalist mindset with the curiosity to go deep when needed
* You have good communication skills and are fluent in English (speaking and writing)
* Last, but not least, you must be able to work within an international team
**What we'll hook you up with:**
* Opportunity to join a reference business group with a strong international presence
* Training programs through the internal training academy and partner entities
* Possibility to work in a hybrid regime