IT Infrastructure Specialist

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

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Why work at AdvanSix?

• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences

Leveraging one of our foundational enablers, Safe, Stable, and Sustainable operations, we deliver robust, secure technology to enable a 24x7 business. Join a growing, contemporary IT team in this role with opportunity to grow. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the IT and OT infrastructure and processes that power our organization. You’ll collaborate with DTT and business cross-functional teams and third parties to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability and security of our environment.

Ensure Safe and Secure Infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain Windows and Linux-based systems and technologies and, including application servers and infrastructure applications/services as well as network technologies. Configure, manage, maintain, and operate on-prem virtualization and cloud infrastructure platforms and solutions, ensuring cybersecurity, high availability, and performance. Work closely with application teams, and security teams to align infrastructure with business needs.

Advance Protections and Troubleshoot Issues: Administer and troubleshoot server and network environments, monitor system health, apply patches, and optimize configurations. Implement disaster recovery strategies for critical systems. Develop and implement backup strategies, plans and processes. Manage back-up solutions.

Adhere to Policies and Procedures: Collaborate with internal and external auditors to ensure compliance with IT audit controls, security policies, procedures, and regulations. Maintain related documentation.

Manage Supplier Relationships: Manage third party technical teams, coordinate activities, monitor service levels, and ensure contractual obligations are met. Collaborate with remote technical personnel to address infrastructure-related issues.

Champion Automation Practices: Develop and implement infrastructure automation wherever possible to streamline deployments and reduce manual intervention.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field, or relevant working experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency in on-prem & cloud-based AD infrastructure, Windows and Linux administration and scripting.
• Strong understanding of Azure, AWS and other cloud services, including computer, storage, and networking.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
• Security-conscious mindset and knowledge of best practices for securing infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

What Will Enable Your Success

Ability to implement strategic initiatives and long-term plans and lead execution of projects.

Results oriented approach with outcome orientation.

Self-motivated, optimistic, and can-do attitude that prioritizes benefits before challenges.

Highly accountable with ability to enable business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic operating environment.

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, SD-WAN network and zero trust solutions

Dynamic, curious learner with desire to understand new perspectives and opportunities, to explore new ways to solve problems.

Capable of partnering across organization to define and breakdown opportunities, identify logical solutions, and facilitate change; ability to anticipate and mitigate issues.

Strong analytical, presentation, and interpersonal skills including active listening.

Attentive to detail but able to see the big picture.

Travel

The base salary for this role is $86,400 to $129,600 annually

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match. Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan.

Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.

The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance. All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.