Key Skills
Job Description
Overview
RoviSys Nederland is looking for a skilled IT/OT Specialist to bridge the gap between enterprise IT systems and operational technology networks. In this role, you’ll work on critical infrastructure projects, ensuring secure, reliability, and high-performance connectivity. You’ll collaborate with cross functional teams, engage directly with clients, and play a key role in delivering innovative solutions that keep operations running smoothly. Primary employment location can be Groningen or Utrecht, Netherlands, Berlin or Frankfurt Germany, or Dublin, Ireland or London, UK
Responsibilities
Travel to Customer sites
- This position may include up to 50% travel. All travel from location of employment is paid by RoviSys.
Team Leadership & Sales Support
- Provide technical guidance for our multiple project teams, with a focus on IT and IP networking
- Serves as a technical contact for customers
- Identify and assign tasks within the project team
- Lead customer meetings
- Assist with proposal generation by estimating hardware costs and the engineering effort required for a project
- Maintain relationships with existing customers
Instrumentation & Electrical Design
- Design control systems’ network architectures and control strategies
- Specify, select, and purchase the IT equipment for projects, including firewalls, servers, switches, routers, servers, hosts, storage systems, and software.
System Design and Configuration
- Lead customer design review meetings
- Configure IT equipment for projects, including firewalls, servers, switches, routers, servers, hosts, storage systems, and software
- Provide guidance and training for other employees
- Participate in designing company standards for IT deployments
- Lead customer demonstrations and acceptance testing
- Maintain a firm competency of one or more IT platforms
- Execute internal functional and quality control testing
- Review/comment on control system specifications and testing documentation
Onsite System Startup
- Audit customer installations for best practice compliance
- Leads installation, starup, and replacement of client IT equipment for automation systems
- Troubleshoot and identify installation discrepancies
- Develop commissioning test plans
- Train customer representatives on operations and maintenance of IT system
Qualifications
- Professional level English (C1, C2, or native)
- At least 3 years of professional experience.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, and industrial protocols (Modbus, Profinet, EtherNet/IP)
- Solid understanding of network security principles, including firewalls, ACLs, and secure remote access
- Hands-on server administration experience with Linux and Windows environments
- Experience with Cisco, Juniper, or similar network equipment
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V
- Collaborative mindset, working effectively with cross-functional teams across IT, OT, and business units
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable engaging directly with clients, understanding their needs, and delivering tailored solutions
- Proactive in identifying issues, proposing solutions, and following through to resolution
Preferred qualifications
- 2nd European language: German, Dutch, Spanish, French, or Italian (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, or native)
- CCNA/CCNP, CompTIA Network+, or equivalent Experience / Certifications
- Familiarity security requirements and guidelines such as EU NIS2 and NIST CSF 2.0
- Experience with deployments of network monitoring or cyber security software
- VMware Experience / Certifications
- Enterprise Linux Systems
Core Responsibilities
The IT/OT Specialist will bridge enterprise IT systems and operational technology networks while providing technical guidance for project teams. Responsibilities include designing network architectures, configuring IT equipment, and leading onsite system startups and commissioning.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 3 years of professional experience and strong knowledge of networking protocols and security principles. Proficiency in English is required, and experience with server administration and virtualization platforms is essential.
About RoviSys
Industry: Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
As one of the world's largest independent systems integrators, RoviSys delivers comprehensive automation, digital transformation, manufacturing execution (MES), Industrial AI, discrete manufacturing, and information solutions that help customers improve performance, increase reliability, and accelerate innovation. Our expertise spans process automation, discrete manufacturing, industrial IT/OT, manufacturing intelligence, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise integration. From concept and design through implementation, commissioning, and lifecycle support, we partner with leading organizations across life sciences, food and beverage, chemicals, energy, oil and gas, metals, consumer products, food and beverage, semiconductor, data center, and other critical industries. Our engineers combine deep industry knowledge with practical experience to solve complex operational challenges and deliver measurable business results. What sets RoviSys apart is our commitment to vendor independence, technical excellence, and long-term partnerships. We recommend and integrate the technologies that best fit each customer's objectives, creating scalable solutions that protect investments, deliver measurable ROI, and prepare organizations for the future. RoviSys employs more than 2000 engineers, developers, project managers, and technical specialists serving customers across North America, LATAM, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Our regional offices are supported by global expertise, and we deliver the responsiveness of a local partner with the capabilities of an international automation leader. For more than 35 years, RoviSys has helped manufacturers connect systems, leverage data, modernize operations, and confidently navigate the future of industrial automation.