Infrastructure Specialist (f/m/d)

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-oriented, innovation-driven company that inspires you and promotes your career? Then take your future in your hands and become part of Takeda as 

Infrastructure Specialist (f/m/d)

The Infrastructure Specialist ensures the reliability, security, and compliance of critical site infrastructure supporting manufacturing and laboratory operations. As the site’s single point of accountability for IT-for-OT infrastructure, this role aligns services with global standards, cybersecurity, and GxP requirements while managing lifecycle, risk, and performance across OT hosting, endpoints, and networks.

How you will contribute: 

• Support and maintain the shopfloor IT infrastructure required for manufacturing and laboratory operations, including servers, virtualization, storage, backup, AV, client image installations, and connectivity services.
• Provide 1st-level support and lead resolution of infrastructure incidents affecting production systems, laboratory systems, industrial workstations, client terminals and other business-critical shopfloor technologies.
• Execute infrastructure maintenance, patching, operating system deployment, image management, driver management, software packaging, cybersecurity remediation, disaster recovery, and technology lifecycle activities.
• Manage the deployment, configuration, and support of workstation images, drivers, peripheral devices, local applications, and endpoint standards required for manufacturing and laboratory environments.
• Support the availability and reliability of infrastructure services used by manufacturing, laboratory, warehouse, and quality operations, including servers, virtual machines, storage systems, authentication services, file services, backup solutions, and endpoint platforms.
• Support hardware installations, replacements, upgrades, and troubleshooting activities for infrastructure equipment and shopfloor devices in production and laboratory areas.
• Partner with global DD&T teams, vendors, and local site stakeholders to deliver infrastructure projects, technology deployments, equipment integrations, and system migrations.
• Ensure compliance with GMP/GxP, cybersecurity, data integrity, and Takeda standards.
• Manage infrastructure documentation, technical procedures, vendor coordination, asset lifecycle activities, license management, and operational reporting.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve reliability, resilience, standardization, and supportability of site infrastructure and shopfloor services.

In this position you will report to the Director Site DD&T

What you bring to Takeda:

• Completed vocational training in IT / computer science or automation, or a comparable qualification
• Good practical experience in IT infrastructure, system administration, maintenance of shopfloor hardware: client upgrades, backup strategies, anti-virus configuration, patching tools
• Good knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem (Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policies
• Experience with virtualization (e.g., Hyper-V), ideally also with server and storage systems
• Basic knowledge of networking
• Basic German and very good English skills, both spoken and written
• A structured, solution-oriented, and independent working style
• Strong teamwork and communication skills in an international environment
• Analytical thinking and strong problem-solving abilities
• Knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu) or experience with specialized tools/applications (e.g., AVamar) is an advantage

About Us: 

Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines.   

The Oranienburg manufacturing site in the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region is the Takeda site with the most employees for the production of solid dosage forms (capsules and tablets). The site also houses a pilot production facility for clinical development projects. Pharmaceutical manufacturing in Oranienburg can look back on a tradition of more than 135 years. Today, we supply over 65 countries with high-quality medicines from Oranienburg. Takeda Oranienburg is a regionally significant employer and has recently been awarded the independent Great Place to Work certificate. The site is characterized by its long company history and excellent opportunities for further development.  

How we will support you: 

Takeda is proud of its commitment to create a diverse workforce and to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please feel free to let us know so that we can provide you with appropriate support during the application process. 

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