IT Infrastructure Specialist

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where, 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity, and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

We currently seek to recruit a new member of our Country IT Team being responsible for Nordics, consisting of Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics, and Iceland as well as Central East Europe (CEE), consisting of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. In close collaboration with the global IT organization and our strategic external partner, Country IT team mainly coordinates and partially provides, a bundle of services in the domains Service Delivery, Provider and Request Management as well as Quality & Compliance, User Experience, and Relationship Management & Governance to the Bayer organizations in Nordics and CEE. On the Site level for the domains Workplace, Infrastructure, and Applications has to be managed or provided by the CIT team.

The main purpose of this permanent position, as a member of the virtual "Infrastructure Expert Team", is to ensure that the Infrastructure domain in the Country IT organization for Nordics and CEE is adequately covered and represented in the different countries as well as in regional and global teams.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as local Service Coordinator / Integrator between the involved external and internal parties on local / regional / global level as required
• Strong engagement in the "Expert Team for Infrastructure" within the CIT Nordics/CEE organization
• Take ownership, drive, coordinate and contribute to infrastructure related projects and changes at the 20+ sites
• Perform Change Management primarily for the local organization, nevertheless always with a holistic perspective of the impact on the entire set of countries
• Track and trace the IT Infrastructure related operational incidents / requests in the Nordics & CEE region and facilitate their settlement with the related external service providers
• Manage the local task and activity repository for infrastructure, ensuring that it is up-to-date and communicated accordingly to the organization
• Close collaboration with the regional and global colleagues as well as the Manufacturing IT Infrastructure colleagues at the Supply Centre in Turku
• Adhere to Bayer Corporate Policies, support their implementation as well as supporting the set-up of additional local policies and similar documents as applicable

WHO YOU ARE

• to have good understanding of corporate networks (LAN, WLAN & WAN) and Windows AD (servers, clients)
• to have basic knowledge on VMware ESXi platform, Storage & SAN solutions
• to have practical experiences in onsite support for infrastructure related works (e.g., rack mounting activities)
• to have strong change management and incident management skills
• to have a general overview on other IT areas and the related processes
• to have a solution and target oriented working approach
• to have good intercultural skills as well as international (virtual) collaboration skills and interest
• to have strong documentation and communication skills (verbal and written) in English and Finnish
• to be capable to manage multiple tasks in parallel and in varying teams, as well as handling ad-hoc requests
• to have a flexible working approach, also related to traveling which will be required occasionally
• to be a strong and active team player with a solid level of self-motivation

For more information contact Country IT, Juha Mannermaa, June 7 or 14 between 9–9.30 (EET), phone +358 40 511 7949.

Please apply by June 18, 2023 at the latest.

Functional area: Information Technology

Seniority level: Professional

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