Sr. Infrastructure Specialist

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Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics diabetes care medical devices and nutritional Ireland

Abbott currently employs about 6000 people across ten sites located in Dublin Donegal Clonmel Cootehill Galway Kilkenny Longford and Sligo.

Please note any offer of employment for this position isconditional upon the successful completionof a pre-employment medical examination including drug and alcohol screening conducted by a medical

practitioner designated by the Company

Role Overview

The Senior IT Infrastructure Specialist is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining resilient scalable and secure enterprise infrastructure across data centre network and core backbone environments. Operating with limited supervision the role partners closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate operational needs into robust technology solutions.

This position requires deep handson expertise across physical datacentre infrastructure fibre and SAN topology design power and electrical systems network backbone administration and service management platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Design & Engineering

• Collaborate independently with user groups and business stakeholders to identify infrastructure requirements and resolve complex technical challenges using hardware software databases and peripheral systems.

• Design implement administer and upgrade datacentre and core backbone network infrastructure to support business growth and availability targets.

• Architect and review fibre optic ring and backbone topologies to ensure redundancy scalability and high availability.

• Design and administer SAN fabric architectures and topology supporting enterprise datacentre environments.

• Review interpret and validate logical and physical network topology diagrams to support infrastructure planning and deployment.

• Data Centre & Physical Infrastructure

• Perform and oversee rackandstack deployments ensuring optimal layout airflow power distribution and cabling standards.

• Lead or support IT electrical installations including UPS PDU ATS and power distribution best practices.

• Provide handson expertise within datacentre environments including buildouts upgrades breakfix and optimisation activities.

• Provision infrastructure equipment for upgrades and expansions ensuring compliance with design standards and deployment timelines.

• Service Management & Operations

• Operate with limited supervision in managing infrastructure incidents changes and improvements.

• Utilise ServiceNow Infrastructure Technology Architecture (ITA) and Data Centre Expert (DCE) platforms for:

  • Asset and capacity reporting

  • Change design and impact analysis

  • Alerting monitoring and operational visibility

• Maintain accurate technical documentation topology diagrams procedures and standards.

• Continuous Improvement & Technology Awareness

• Apply strong technical judgement in development process optimisation reengineering and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.

• Maintain current knowledge of emerging infrastructure technologies tools and industry best practices.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers and project teams as required.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Experience

• 3-7 years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure datacentre or network engineering roles (senior specialist level).

• Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise datacentre environments including power cabling rack layout and hardware lifecycle management.

• Handson expertise with SAN storage environments and fabric designs (e.g. Fibre Channel redundancy models topology optimisation).

• Strong experience provisioning and installing infrastructure hardware for network and datacentre upgrades.

Technical Skills

• Fibre optic cabling and ring topology design

• SAN fabric design and administration

• Core network and backbone infrastructure

• UPS PDU ATS and datacentre power systems

• Rack & stack structured cabling and infrastructure standards

• ServiceNow (advanced operational use)

• IT architecture and datacentre management tools (ITA DCE)

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related technical discipline is preferred.

• Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.

• Certifications (Advantageous)

• CCNA / CCNP / CCDP

• ITIL

• Datacentre or vendorspecific certifications (e.g. SAN network power systems).

The base pay for this position is

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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