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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Controls Operations Engineer

Rolls-Royce Indianapolis, Indiana On-site entry full-time

Salary

$82,882 - $87,026 per year

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Description

At Rolls-Royce, you will be part of the Integrated Controls Systems (ICS) capability group, which is part of Rolls-Royce Engineering, Technology and Safety.

As a Controls Operations Engineer, you will work on a wide variety of projects to support Rolls-Royce's diverse customer base. Your responsibilities will include maintaining IT infrastructure, interacting with global IT and program development teams, investigating, developing, and implementing new features that improve efficiency, productivity, or security of mission-critical data.

Key areas of focus will be:

  • Assisting in the administration, configuration, and support of virtual and physical machines
  • Helping design, manage, and support engineering development, project management, and team collaboration software
  • Documenting infrastructure configurations, procedures, and changes
  • Troubleshooting platform issues in collaboration with infrastructure and solution support architects
  • Conducting security vulnerability remediation using Linux/Windows diagnostic tools
  • Providing support in the design and deployment of Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • A Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace, and/or related degree
  • Foundational understanding of networking concepts, server architecture, infrastructure/platform engineering, and virtualization/cloud concepts (especially VMware)
  • Experience in Linux and Windows Server environments
  • Experience querying and managing databases
  • Excellent attention to detail, self-motivation, problem-solving skills, and ability for written and oral communication

Preferred qualifications include:

  • Knowledge of IT best practices (ITIL) for system monitoring, configuration management, enterprise tools, or improving and aligning services with business objectives
  • Knowledge or interest in Linux ecosystems and configuration management (e.g., Ansible)
  • An infrastructure-as-software mindset focused on observability, utilizing log tracking to understand system behavior and identifying critical areas for monitoring and redundancy

In terms of benefits, Rolls-Royce offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan.

Skills

Required

  • Linux
  • Windows Server
  • networking concepts
  • server architecture
  • infrastructure/platform engineering
  • virtualization/cloud concepts
  • database management

Nice to have

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