Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?
If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.
Position Summary
Ketjen is hiring a Head of Infrastructure and Cybersecurity to own the network, systems, and security that the company runs on every day, and to build a security program that covers both corporate IT and the plant floor. Ketjen's separation from Albemarle's shared network and security environment is in its final stretch and is expected to close out over the next few months. The larger and longer-running part of this job is what comes next: standing up the permanent infrastructure and security organization, moving day-to-day operations to a managed service provider, and running a stable, well-secured environment across every site.
This is a hands-on leadership role. The Head will manage a small core team and a selection of outside providers across network, cloud, endpoint, and security tooling, and will own the relationship with whichever managed service provider or providers take on day-to-day operations. This person will be the one accountable for ensuring critical systems availability.
Reporting and Key Relationships
Reports to Chief Information Officer. Works closely with the Head of Applications, the plant and manufacturing leadership teams, EHS, and outside managed service providers and security vendors. Partners with the KPS portfolio operations team on the separation timeline
What You Will Do:
Network and Infrastructure
Evaluate the current network, infrastructure, and security environment across every site, and use that assessment to decide what to keep, consolidate , or replace.
Own the design and operation of Ketjen's global network, including switching, wireless, SD-WAN, and internet circuits at every manufacturing site, lab, and office.
Build world-class infrastructure on the shop floor, giving manufacturing teams resilient, secure, and well-supported plant networks, wireless coverage, device connectivity, and edge infrastructure that enable safe, reliable, data-driven operations.
Own end-user computing, including laptops, mobile devices, and the tools people use to collaborate and get work done.
MSP Transition and IT Organization
Lead the transition of day-to-day infrastructure operations to a managed service provider, including scoping the work, selecting the partner, and managing a clean handoff.
Design the permanent infrastructure and security team, deciding what stays in-house, such as architecture, security oversight, and vendor governance, versus what the managed provider runs.
Cybersecurity, IT and OT
Build and run the cybersecurity program across corporate systems, cloud, and third parties, including endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and log monitoring.
Extend that same discipline into the plants. Manufacturing sites depend on control systems and equipment networks that carry real safety and uptime risk, and this role owns segmenting, monitoring, and hardening that environment alongside the corporate one.
Managed Service Provider and Vendor Governance
Own the ongoing relationship with the managed service provider or providers running infrastructure and security operations, including service levels, escalation, and regular performance review.
Take the lead on negotiating Ketjen's key infrastructure and security contracts, including the managed service agreement itself, and make the strategic calls on what to insource, outsource, or consolidate .
Rationalize a vendor list that has grown organically. Several categories, including monitoring, log analysis, and remote access tools, currently have overlapping products, and part of this role is deciding what stays and what gets consolidated .
Team, Budget, and Operations
What You Bring
Required:
Hands-on familiarity with modern infrastructure and security tooling, including SD-WAN, next-generation firewalls, endpoint protection, privileged access management, and SIEM or log analysis platforms.
Preferred:
What We Are Looking For:
Location and Travel:
Benefits of Joining Ketjen
Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.
