Senior Information Technology Engineer-OSS-Linux

Position Overview

The Senior IT Engineer 1(OSS Platform) is responsible for operations and maintenance of the local Open Source technology stack to support manufacturing operations from an IT/OT perspective in a global organization. This position acts as a single point of contact and escalation for the locally used systems and ensures the most appropriate level of service is supplied to meet future business needs. This role will initially be part of the local IT project team responsible for implementing all infrastructure and applications necessary to bring FDB's new site in Holly Springs, NC, online. This role functions as a local extension of the Global IT team reporting into the Sr. Director - IT. This role ensures local implementation and 24/7 support in alignment with global support processes.

Company Overview

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we'll open North America's largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We're looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we're proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive-what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let's transform healthcare together

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh's thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of giving our world more smiles. Visit:

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Monitors, manages, and troubleshoots end user computing systems across FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
• Assists in the establishment and alignment of roadmaps across IT & OT
• Implements and supports tools and services bridging the gap between IT & OT.
• Builds a modern, flexible, and mature service delivery model.
• Champions new technologies, like open source and cloud native activities, and act as an Open Source evangelist
• Implements and supports a fit-for-purpose containerization platform.
• Participates in industry forums to stay-abreast of current trends and promote our way of working and accomplishments.
• Provides level 2 support, including resolving complex technical issues within the OSS area of operations.
• Provides critical technical expertise.
• Creates and deploys of application packages for use on end point devices
• Assists with other projects involving the infrastructure and application systems teams.
• Analyzes inquiries and participate in on-call rotation for critical incident management.
• Determines appropriate technical area or vendor to resolve problems.
• Participates in project execution and quality assurance as needed.
• Ensures and drives service delivery of the IT ServiceDesk
• Other duties, as assigned

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting skills to identify and correct problems
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and fluency in English
• Strong analytical mind, eye for detail, and problem solving skills
• Drive for automation and simplification of tasks and processes
• Collaborative attitude with the willingness to work with global peers and cross-functional teams toward company and project team goals
• High sense of responsibility and ownership.
• Self-driven, flexible, has a positive attitude.
• High service and quality mindset

Basic Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent work experience with 5+ years of experience with open source technologies OR
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Administration with 3 years of experience
• Experience implementing Enterprise Linux/*NIX hosting capabilities
• Knowledge of OpenStack tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix, or similar.
• Foundational understanding of security Open Source technologies
• Experience with manufacturing IT/OT

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in Life Sciences or GMP manufacturing environment

FDBN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify or any other protected class. If an accommodation to the application process is needed, please email FDBN_PNC@.

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