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City of Santa Clara · 5 days ago

Electric Utility Network Administrator

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$149K/yr - $190K/yr

5+ years exp

City of Santa Clara is a community-owned electric utility providing reliable service since 1896. They are seeking a highly skilled Network Administrator to design, implement, and support network infrastructure with a focus on Cisco technologies, ensuring performance and security of the organization's network environment.

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No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Administering and monitoring network services

Managing a variety of advanced network and security products—including Cisco firewalls and intrusion prevention systems

Maintaining compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requirements as well as applicable state and local mandates

Supporting and maintaining complex infrastructure components such as enterprise-grade Cisco firewalls, routers, switches, wireless controllers, and RSA Authentication Manager

Managing secure VPN access and routing protocols and future state zero trust network access initiatives

Overseeing DNS infrastructure

Supporting VoIP systems to ensure call quality and reliability

Proactively monitoring network performance to detect and resolve issues related to connectivity, latency, or system failures

Accurate documentation of network configurations and changes

Collaboration with internal teams on infrastructure projects and upgrades

Participation in organizational capacity planning

Supporting business continuity by ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities across all network components

Investigating and reporting on security incidents in accordance with departmental policy or direction from senior management

Providing technical leadership and mentorship to others

Qualification

Cisco technologiesNetwork administrationUtility cyber securitySynchronous Optical NetworkingNetwork Intrusion Detection SystemsVMWare environmentsFirewalls configurationRouting protocolsLDAPTechnical leadershipDocumentationCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with coursework in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Five (5) years of network operations and administration experience in Utility Operations and/or Electric Scheduling or the equivalent, including experience in utility cyber security and facility security

Three (3) years of the required experience must have been in a lead position

Three (3) years of the required experience must include operations and maintenance level experience with Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) equipment installed in utility applications

Possession of a valid California Class C driver's license is required at time of appointment and for the duration of employment

On call for 24/7 support of all critical networking structures, perform troubleshooting and maintenance in active electric substations and taking action to insure the Electric Utility meets the CIP Reliability Standards in its communication and control systems at all times

Incumbents will have to pass an initial and periodic comprehensive background checks, which may include fingerprinting, to meet Federal, State and/or industry security requirements

Incumbents will be required to obtain and maintain any license or certification mandated by Federal or State requirements

Must be able to perform all of the essential functions of the job assignment

Preferred

A bachelor's degree in either Computer Science or Engineering is highly desirable

Training in electric utility substation safety standards is highly desirable

Specific experience with the General Electric JungleMUX product is highly desirable

Experience with any of the following systems is highly desirable: Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS); Virtual machine VMWare environments; Configuration and administration of networks, firewalls, routers, switches ACL policies; Cisco Access Control Systems (ACS) 2-factor authentication; and Lightweight Directory Authentication Protocol (LDAP)