Technology Engineer - Operational Technology

Job Summary

The Technology Engineer Operational Technology (OT) in the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) group directly supports the Transmission and Distribution (T&D) organization. The Technology Engineer OT is a direct report to the SCADA Senior IT Supervisor. We are looking for an individual with strong understanding of Operational Technology and extensive handson experience in administering various cyber security tools and platforms.
The Technology Engineer OT is involved in the full technology life cycle of designing configuring developing documenting and testing of Operational Technology solutions to meet business or technology requirements from application reliability and cyber security hardening perspective. Responsible for the daytoday administration technical support troubleshooting maintenance upgrades patching performance and overall health of a variety of cyber security tools within a UNIX Linux and Microsoft Windows Server clustered server environment.

Job Responsibilities

Design configuration development documentation and testing of operational technology solutions to meet business or technology requirements from application reliability and cyber security hardening perspective
Evaluation of existing technology solutions to determine fit for purpose for the new business or technology requirements.
Collaboration with other individuals to ensure proper integration of the new technology solution with the existing technology solutions.
Analysis of end users needs business and technology requirements. Translation of these requirements into technology solution capabilities and design.
Maintain and operate Industrial Defender Dragos CyberArk and CA/PKI cybersecurity solutions to ensure secured CNI environments.
Implement security tools policies and procedures in conjunction with the companys cybersecurity requirements.
Support all LI Transmission Operations platforms (SCADA EMS) and Distribution Operations platforms (DSCADA) and associated applications such as data historians APIs and webbased GUIs.
Support CNI (Critical National Infrastructure) in data centers and remote control centers including network devices and services (e.g. routers switches firewalls servers etc. including maintenance and installations such as equipment racking power/cable management and repair/replacement of failed equipment and/or components.
Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs patches hot fixes and security configurations.
Provide Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Teams internal customer support and troubleshooting to resolve issues liaising with product vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness approval and success of changes made to the environment.
Participate on project teams for future CNI applications infrastructure upgrades and new technology deployments to ensure compliance with CNI principles IT policies and NERCCIP standards.
Participate in 24x7 rotational offhours standby support coverage for the CNI systems.

Job Specific Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or specialization in Cyber Security aspect of OT or related field with 4 years of IT/Operational Technology (OT) experience or Cyber Security with OT experience or and advanced degree in a technology related field with 2 years of IT/OT experience or Cyber Security with OT related experience
Competency with network security and information security concepts and technologies
Understanding of TCP/IP and LAN/WAN connectivity
Demonstrated knowledge of Cyber Security aspect of Operational Technology and solutions such as SIEM and PAM
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and make recommendations using critical thinking sound judgment and decision making processes and techniques in a fastpaced mixed technology environment
Desired
Experience with mission critical technology solutions
Demonstrated knowledge of VMWare or similar solutions
Experience with monitoring network diagnostic and network analytics tools
Knowledge of scripting programming concepts and methodologies
Cisco certifications CCNP Security CyberOps Associate CCNP Datacenter CCNP Routing and Switching Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Experience documenting technical solutions or business and system process flow techniques using applicable methods such as engineering drawings UML (e.g. Use Case Diagrams Activity Diagrams Entity Relationship Diagrams) etc.
Ability to troubleshoot and make recommendations using critical thinking sound judgment and decision making processes and techniques in a fastpaced mixed technology environment

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