Manager OT Infra Structure Hosting & Connectivity📣 Job Ad

About Ma'aden and the Role

Ma'aden, established in 1997, is recognized as one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing the mining industry to establish it as the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy, building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. We are seeking a Manager - OT Infra-Structure, Hosting & Connectivity to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to leading Ma’aden’s Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity environments, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance industrial technology services across all sites. The Manager will oversee the operation and lifecycle of OT compute, storage, virtualization, edge platforms, hosted OT systems, and industrial network connectivity, which are critical for safe operations, digital initiatives, data platforms, and enterprise integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage OT infrastructure and hosting operations, including servers, storage, virtualization, hosting platforms, and edge compute environments across industrial sites.
• Ensure the availability, performance, capacity, and reliability of hosted OT systems such as MES, LIMS, historians, and edge nodes.
• Execute routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, backups, lifecycle management, and infrastructure health monitoring activities.
• Oversee OT network infrastructure across plant, site, and industrial control environments, ensuring 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, supporting the modernization of legacy hardware, operating systems, and industrial networks.
• Drive operational resilience by implementing redundancy, backup, recovery, monitoring, and incident response practices for OT infrastructure and hosted systems.
• Lead the OT infrastructure, hosting, and connectivity team, coordinating with various cross-functional teams and managing vendor support and service delivery.

Indicators of Success

• OT infrastructure, hosting platforms, and connectivity services operate reliably with strong availability, performance, and capacity control.
• Hosted OT systems such as MES, LIMS, historians, and edge platforms are effectively maintained, patched, upgraded, and monitored.
• Industrial network connectivity is stable, resilient, secure, and aligns with enterprise OT standards.
• Legacy infrastructure modernization and lifecycle activities are executed with minimal operational disruption.
• Incidents are resolved promptly, recurring issues are addressed through root-cause analysis, and overall operational resilience shows continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• A Master’s Degree is preferred.

Required Experience

• Minimum 8–12 years of experience in OT infrastructure, industrial infrastructure, hosting, connectivity, network operations, or technology operations roles.
• Hands-on experience with OT servers, storage, virtualization, edge compute, industrial networks, MES, LIMS, historians, and site-based OT environments.
• Proven experience leading operational teams, managing vendors, coordinating incident response, overseeing infrastructure lifecycle activities, and driving reliability improvement initiatives in industrial or asset-intensive environments.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a dynamic environment focused on advancing industrial technology services across Ma'aden's operations.