Domain Administrator – Manufacturing IT Operations

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of an inquisitive team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create significant contributions to the world.

Job Description: Domain Administrator – Manufacturing IT Operations

This is an outstanding opportunity to join Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. as part of our Center of Excellence (COE) in Hyderabad, India, as a GxP Domain Administrator – Manufacturing IT Operations. You will work in a dynamic, regulated environment to ensure secure, highly available, and compliant IT infrastructure supporting manufacturing and laboratory operations.

Key Responsibilities

Domain, Server & Infrastructure Administration

• Administer and manage Active Directory domains, user accounts, group policies, DNS/DHCP, permissions, and authentication services.
• Design, deploy, configure, and support server infrastructure across On-Premises, Virtualized (VMware/Hyper-V), and Cloud environments (IaaS/PaaS).
• Manage Windows and Linux servers across enterprise, laboratory, and manufacturing environments.
• Configure and support high availability (HA) architectures, including clustering, failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan and manage Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure, including storage provisioning, performance tuning, backups, and replication.

Laboratory & Manufacturing Systems Infrastructure Support

• Develop, support, and maintain server architectures for Laboratory Systems, including:
  • LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems)
  • CDS (Chromatography Data Systems)
  • SDMS (Scientific Data Management Systems)
  • eLN (Electronic Laboratory Notebooks)
• Provide infrastructure support for Manufacturing and OT Systems, including:
  • MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems)
  • DCS (Distributed Control Systems)
  • Serialization Systems
  • Historian Systems
  • EMS (Environmental Monitoring Systems)
• Collaborate with application owners, vendors, OT engineers, and quality teams to ensure system availability, performance, data integrity, and regulatory compliance (GxP).

Legacy Operating Systems & Platform Support

• Provide expert-level support for legacy operating systems required by manufacturing and laboratory systems.
• Lead and execute upgrade, remediation, migration, or isolation strategies for end-of-life platforms while ensuring validated state and business continuity.
• Maintain security hardening, patching strategies, documentation, and risk assessments for legacy environments.

IT Service Management & Automation

• Perform server lifecycle management activities using ServiceNow, including:
  • Incident, problem, change, and asset management
  • Automation of server provisioning, patching, monitoring, and compliance activities
• Ensure adherence to ITIL/ITSM processes, change control, and validation documentation requirements.

Security, IT/OT Segregation & Network Management

• Manage servers in highly secured environments, aligned with corporate cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
• Design and enforce IT and OT network segmentation, ensuring isolation between enterprise IT, laboratory, and manufacturing/OT networks.
• Configure, manage, and support firewalls, VLANs, routing rules, and access control policies.
• Implement and manage VPN solutions and secure remote access for internal users, external vendors, and OEMs.
• Ensure systems follow best practices for cybersecurity, protecting IT and OT environments from internal and external threats, including:
  • Hardening, patching, antivirus/EDR
  • Least-privilege access
  • Monitoring, logging, and audit readiness
  • Vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation

Monitoring, Backup & Business Continuity

• Monitor server health, capacity, performance, and availability using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery solutions for critical manufacturing and laboratory systems.
• Support business continuity planning (BCP) and periodic DR testing.

Collaboration & Global Support

• Work closely with application teams, OT teams, quality, cybersecurity, and global IT partners.
• Provide advanced technical support and root-cause analysis for domain, OS, infrastructure, and security-related issues.
• Participate in global IT initiatives, infrastructure modernization projects, and compliance audits.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education:
  • Bachelor of Engineering (BE) or B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
• Experience:
  • 10–14 years of overall IT infrastructure experience
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry
  • Proven experience supporting GxP-regulated manufacturing and laboratory environments

Key Skills & Competencies

• Domain and server administration (Windows & Linux)
• On-Prem, Virtual, and Cloud infrastructure management
• High availability and disaster recovery architectures
• SAN and enterprise storage management
• Laboratory and Manufacturing systems infrastructure (LIMS, MES, DCS, etc.)
• ServiceNow-based server automation and ITSM processes
• IT/OT network segmentation and cybersecurity best practices
• Firewall, VPN, and secure remote access management
• Strong understanding of GxP, data integrity, and compliance requirements
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills

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