APAC Senior IT Infrastructure Analyst

Barnes Aerospace, is an international manufacturer of precision-machined and fabricated components and assemblies for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) turbine engine, airframe and industrial gas turbine builders throughout the world, and for the military. Barnes Aerospace also provides jet engine component overhaul and repair (MRO) services for many of the world's major turbine engine manufacturers, commercial airlines and the military. Additionally, we manufacture aerospace aftermarket spare parts and provide repair services for aerospace engine components. Barnes Aerospace provides a total solutions package to our customers that leverages the synergies between our OEM and MRO businesses to address complex aerospace customer needs and support products through the entire lifecycle.

Barnes Aerospace Singapore, with legal entity name - Windsor Airmotive Asia Pte Ltd in the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), is a leading provider of Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) services and spare parts for many of the world's major turbine engine manufacturers, airline operators, and third-party providers. The Barnes Aerospace Singapore OEM Division is a world-class provider for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), specializing in precision stamped assemblies and tight tolerance machining, serving a robust global customer base throughout the aerospace industry. To learn more about Barnes Aerospace, please visit www.barnesaero.com.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical oversight and governance for external partner relationships (including MSPs, ISPs, and hardware providers), ensuring seamless integration, operational continuity, and alignment with corporate IT standards.

• Provide strategic oversight and dedicated support for high-impact infrastructure projects, system designs, facility build outs, and deployments across cloud, hosted, on-premises, and Operational Technology (OT) environments, including Smart Connected Factory initiatives.

• Proactively lead the exploration, investigation, and presentation of new technology stacks and infrastructure innovations to the business, driving continuous improvement and strategic alignment.

• Architect and plan strategic workload placements, evaluating cloud vs. on-premises feasibility based on cost, governance, and performance to ensure the most effective architecture for the business.

• Lead the review, planning, and execution of technical debt removal to optimize infrastructure performance and security.

• Maintain close collaboration with key business stakeholders and internal colleagues to ensure the operation meets the digital strategy goals and priorities.

• Effectively coordinate and multi-task across various groups and functional teams inside and outside of the organization.

• Establish standards, tools, and processes to be used within the team and by external IT Support partners.

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to internal IT Support Teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and best practice adherence.

• Provide demonstrated experience in broad systems architectural skills.

• Design the architectures for integrating core infrastructure technologies across hybrid environments.

• Act as senior technical escalation point for APAC infrastructure issues.

• Understand and support the underlying business processes, workflows, data and application platforms that depend on infrastructure services.

• Install, configure, administer, manage, and support Azure compute instances, Azure Backup, Azure Storage Monitor, snapshot, Azure Storage etc.

• Manage and optimize costs across cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring architectural decisions align with defined budgets and financial governance.

Education & Experience:

• Minimum requirements include a bachelor’s degree in an IT related field and/or 7+ years equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of active hands-on experience in cloud, hosted, and on-premises infrastructure.

• Experience acting as a technical lead, overseeing regional/global projects, and managing external partner relationships (MSPs, ISPs, hardware) is highly preferred.

• Must have a hands-on experience of system administration of Windows server-side infrastructure, virtual machines, and associated technologies on physical servers.

• High proficiency in written and oral communication for conveyance of technical solution work products.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong Networking experience, specifically the design, management, and implementation of Layer 2 (L2) networks (up to the firewall), alongside hybrid cloud network architectures.

• Experience moving workloads from on premise to IaaS (Azure, AWS, GCP), as well as maintaining on-premises solutions where cloud is not feasible.

• Strong Active Directory experience, including Group Policy Administration, Replication and Deployment experience.

• Experience supporting Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure and Smart Connected Factory environments.

• DevOps practices and Agile project management.