Manager Operational Technology Infra Structure Hosting & Connectivity

About the Role

Ma'aden is seeking a Manager, Operational Technology Infra-Structure, Hosting & Connectivity to lead the operational technology (OT) infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity environments. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, involves ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance industrial technology services across various sites. The manager will oversee the operation and lifecycle of OT compute, storage, virtualization, edge platforms, hosted OT systems, and industrial network connectivity, supporting safe operations, digital initiatives, data platforms, and enterprise integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain OT servers, storage, virtualization, hosting platforms, and edge compute environments across industrial sites.
• Ensure the availability, performance, capacity, and reliability of hosted OT systems, including MES, LIMS, historians, and edge nodes.
• Execute routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, backups, lifecycle management, and infrastructure health monitoring activities.
• Operate and maintain OT network infrastructure across plant, site, and industrial control environments.
• Ensure stable, resilient, and secure connectivity between OT systems, plant networks, data platforms, and upstream enterprise systems.
• Implement OT infrastructure, hosting, connectivity, and edge platform standards across sites and operational environments.
• Support the modernization of legacy hardware, operating systems, virtualized environments, industrial networks, and hosted OT platforms.
• Implement redundancy, backup, recovery, monitoring, incident response, and operational resilience practices for OT infrastructure and hosted systems.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity issues.
• Lead the OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity team in delivering reliable operational support and improvement initiatives.
• Manage vendor support, service delivery, technical escalations, maintenance windows, and infrastructure delivery commitments.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage OT infrastructure and hosting operations.
• Experience overseeing OT networks and connectivity.
• Proven track record in driving standardization and modernization initiatives.
• Capability to ensure reliability and operational resilience in critical environments.
• Experience in leading teams, managing vendors, and executing cross-functional projects.

Desired Outcomes

Success in this role will be demonstrated by OT infrastructure, hosting platforms, and connectivity services operating reliably with strong availability, performance, and capacity control. Hosted OT systems, including MES, LIMS, historians, and edge platforms, will be effectively maintained, patched, upgraded, and monitored. Industrial network connectivity will be stable, resilient, secure, and aligned with enterprise OT standards. The individual will ensure that legacy infrastructure modernization and lifecycle activities are executed with minimal disruption to operations, and incidents are resolved quickly with recurring issues addressed through root-cause actions, leading to improved operational resilience over time.