Senior System Engineer

About Kitron

Kitron is a leading Scandinavian Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, delivering improved flexibility, cost efficiency, and innovation power through the value chain. The company has operations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, China, Malaysia, and the United States. With 2500 highly skilled employees, Kitron manufactures and delivers anything from fully assembled electronic circuit boards to complete end - products for customers globally. Related technical services like prototyping, industrialisation, material analysing and test development are also key competencies offered by Kitron.

Our values

Location: Chennai
Deadline: 2026.10.21

Job Description:

• Prioritize factory IT systems and infrastructure availability to minimize production

disruptions

• Ensure adequate competency and capacity to operate the factory’s local IT infrastructure,

and similar capability for service restorations

• Actively work to prevent adversaries from gaining access to Kitron information and digital

processing facilities

• Manage and develop the factory’s IT team (direct reports)

• Participate in Corporate IT initiatives and developments as needed

• Involvement with the factory’s Local Management Team (LMT):

o Participate in LMT meetings as needed to stay informed of factory developments

and priorities.

o Update LMT on IT developments, IT events from previous period, and IT’s focus

areas on the coming period that affects the factory

o Actively participate in ensuring compliance towards local, global and customer

cyber security requirements, as led by LMT

o IT Budget responsibility for the factory, aligned with LMT priorities

o Participate in planning and execution of factory cyber security exercises

o Participate in business continuity planning, as led by LMT

• Follow Company planned maintenance programs for the factory’s local IT infrastructure

• Adhere to Company hardware/software standards for the factory’s local IT infrastructure,

closely aligned with LMT’s investment strategy

• Build and maintain IT infrastructure with focus on zero trust, high availability, disaster

recovery, immutable backup, and swift service restoration capabilities

Requirements:

• Strong, broad technical foundation

• Solid problem-solving experience

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, including working in temporary teams

  and groups

• Minimum 8 years and maximum 10 years of relevant professional experience.

• (Optional) bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

We offer:

• Global team and projects.

• Opportunities for personal and professional development.

• Training and competence development courses.