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Altus Power, Inc. · 2 days ago

SCADA Engineer

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

4+ years exp

Altus Power, Inc. develops, owns, and operates distributed solar, storage, and electrification assets across the U.S. They are seeking a SCADA Engineer to enhance the operational technology stack used in their generation portfolio, focusing on data acquisition systems and industrial communication networks.

EnergyRenewable EnergySolar

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Melissa Galligan Boulan

Responsibilities

Configure and maintain SCADA servers, historian nodes, N3uron gateways, OPC-UA bridges, and MQTT-based data pipelines

Develop, modify, and validate logic within SCADA modules, including control sequences, alarms, failover logic, heartbeat monitoring, and device polling strategies

Manage integration of new field devices (inverters, revenue meters, relays, DAS units, PPAs/PLCs) into N3uron or Ignition environments

Implement and optimize communication topologies including client/server, publish/subscribe, and outbound-only architectures for secured external WAN connections

Configure routers, cellular modems, firewalls, managed switches, and VPN appliances used across solar and storage facilities

Design, maintain, and troubleshoot multi-layer topologies involving Ethernet, serial, fiber, and wireless radio networks

Perform packet capture, protocol decoding, and network path diagnostics (TCP/IP stack analysis, ARP, VLAN tagging, NAT rules, and routing tables)

Validate communication resilience through watchdogs, redundancy groups, LTE failover logic, and firewall ACL tuning

Implement and troubleshoot DNP3, Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC-UA, and SEL protocol stacks for telemetry, status, and control operations

Create and revise DNP/Modbus maps, point lists, polling intervals, register scaling, timestamp behavior, and unsolicited/sequence-of-events reporting

Work directly with SEL relays/meters for settings updates, logic adjustments, firmware upgrades, and secure remote access configurations

Provide real-time support to on-site engineers, subcontractors, and commissioning partners during equipment replacement, network construction, and SCADA cutovers

Diagnose issues with site PLCs, sensors, fiber-optic links, network congestion, inverter data feeds, and PPC responsiveness

Perform root-cause analysis of data gaps, communication faults, control system outages, and hardware failures

Implement hardened configurations across Linux and Windows hosts, including SSH hardening, VPN profiles, firewall rules, and credential rotation

Monitor system health using logs, process states, interface counters, historian back-fill operations, and alarm KPIs

Maintain detailed documentation for site network diagrams, firewall maps, SCADA logic flows, equipment inventories, and remote-access procedures

Contribute to SCADA standards for version control, patching schedules, naming conventions, and backup/restore processes

Qualification

SCADA/OT experienceDNP3ModbusOPC-UALinuxSQL databasesNetwork troubleshootingIndustrial communicationMicrosoft Office SuiteSharePointMS TeamsSmartsheetPower BI

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation/Controls, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline

4+ years of direct SCADA/OT experience in energy, utility, or industrial automation environments

Expert troubleshooting ability across: TCP/IP, serial RS-485/RS-232, fiber-optic networks

DNP3, Modbus (TCP & RTU), OPC-UA

VPN tunnels (IPSec, OpenVPN), firewalls, NAT, port-forward rules

Managed switches, packet capture tools, and network monitoring utilities

Hands-on experience with routers, cellular gateways, managed switches, industrial firewalls, and IT/OT segmentation

Proficiency in Linux (system services, file permissions, networking tools) and Windows (services, firewall, event logs)

Experience with N3uron, Ignition, SQL databases, SEL products (SEL-751, SEL-3530, SEL-735, etc.), and industrial communication drivers

Ability to travel up to 30% for field diagnostics, commissioning, and hardware replacements

Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, MS Teams, Smartsheet, and Power BI for reporting and task coordination

Company

Altus Power, Inc.

Altus Power, based in Stamford, Connecticut, is the leading commercial-scale provider of clean electric power serving commercial, industrial, public sector and Community Solar customers with end-to-end solutions.

Founded in 2009

Stamford, Connecticut, USA

51-200 employees

http://www.altuspower.com

H1B Sponsorship

Altus Power, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (4)

2024 (5)

2023 (1)

2022 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$2.35B

Key Investors

Blackstone CreditBlackstone Group

2025-02-06Acquired

2024-01-02Post Ipo Debt· $100M

2023-11-13Post Ipo Debt· $200M

Leadership Team

Gregg Felton

Chief Executive Officer

Justin Biltz

Head of Policy & Government Affairs

Recent News

Business Wire

Altus Power Acquires 105MW DC of In-Construction Solar Projects from Cordelio Power

2026-01-16

GlobeNewswire

Greenbacker advances strategic focus on scaled clean energy, with sale of 237 MW solar and storage portfolio to Altus Power

2026-01-15

Business Wire

Altus Power Acquires 12 MW of Commercial-Scale Solar Assets Across Four States

2026-01-09

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