Engineer, OT Platform AAP
Newmont · Accra
Job Location: Accra
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Recruiter Name: Mary Soiza
Pay Grade: Level 1
Closing Date:
Your contribution
Responsible for integrating OT and IT, ensuring seamless data flow, operational efficiency, and robust security across digital and physical environments. Lead the process for assessing and solving platform issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. Schedule fixes and enhancements based on business impact, security needs, and technical complexity. Collaborate with development teams to ensure timely and effective improvements are applied. Administer user acceptance testing for platform fixes and enhancements. Monitor and solve integrated systems to maintain impactful levels.
As part of our team, you will
- Support the foundational technology platforms, workplace services, and support mechanisms required to deliver resilient, scalable, and efficient IT services, integrating OT and IT systems using advanced technologies.
- Shape platform strategy and maintain platform products roadmap (including new functionality and enhancements), designing and implementing optimal operating models.
- Ensure that infrastructure and platforms functions are aligned to business needs and enable operational excellence and security.
- Focus on ongoing support, maintenance, and optimization of products and platforms to ensure reliability, performance, and availability.
- Run technical development and engineering of products and platforms, focusing on building robust, scalable, and high-performing solutions.
- Run the process for assessing and solving platform issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
- Schedule platform fixes and enhancements based on business impact and technical complexity.
- Liaise with development teams to ensure timely and effective improvements.
- Administer user acceptance testing for fixes and enhancements.
- Monitor and solve integrated systems to maintain impactful levels.
Prerequisites for your success in this role
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related field.
Extensive knowledge of Information Technology across several different disciplines, providing understanding of complex, interconnected systems and technology.
Understanding of platform engineering, self-service automation workflows, and agentic solutioning.
Expertise in OT and IT systems, edge computing, AI, machine learning and advanced analytics
Deep understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
Knowledge of OT/IT integration best practices and the related security & risk management strategy.
Skills in designing and activating platform solutions, organizing talent, and fostering a platform mindset.
Proficiency in platform management with familiarity in enterprise architecture and agentic solutions.
Ability to validate results, investigate abnormalities, and ensure platform consistency and operational excellence.
Expertise in infrastructure and service management.
Competency in cyber security principles, secure end user computing, and device management policy enforcement.
Competency in platform technologies.
Mastery of Microsoft Office productivity software.
Competency in the mining or natural resources industry is highly desirable.
Your work environment
You will work within a global technology organization supporting critical operational environments. This role collaborates closely with infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, maintenance, analytics, and site leadership teams. Travel to operational sites may be required to support network deployments, maintenance activities, and infrastructure projects. Flexibility to support maintenance windows and critical incidents outside standard business hours may occasionally be needed.
We understand no candidate will meet every single desired qualification.
If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you
think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!