Alava Consulting · 22 hours ago
SCADA NERC CIP
Houston, TX
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expAlava Consulting is seeking a SCADA NERC CIP Engineer to join their team for a 6-month hybrid contract. The role involves maintaining the SCADA/GMS environment and ensuring compliance with NERC/CIP requirements while supporting IT and OT systems.
Staffing & Recruiting
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Jason Price
Responsibilities
Maintain the SCADA/GMS environment as well as compliance with NERC/CIP program and architecture of the Generation Control Center (GCC) in Houston as a Medium or High impact facility and maintain compliance with the latest NERC CIP requirements
Provide support for Virtual environments supporting IT and OT systems
Performs advanced focused architecting, optimizing, implementing, configuring, managing, administering, troubleshooting, maintaining and monitoring one or more of the following: infrastructure software, hardware, systems/applications, middleware, servers/storage, and IP-based telecommunications
Follow implemented IT policies, governance, standards, and security
Installs new specific software releases and/or upgrades including researching, testing and implementing new technology
Participates in disaster recovery planning and testing, including fault tolerance and detailed disaster recovery plan maintenance
Communicates and interfaces with members of the IT, vendor and user communities. Outage or an emergency
Perform capacity planning for IT Infrastructure including Nutanix platform and communications, ensuring robust redundancy
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Information Technology or Technical degree
Minimum 5 years' experience in IT/OT application support and development with some IT experience
General understanding of the NERC CIP requirements and prior program implementation experience
Commonly used programming technologies such as C, C#, Java, Visual Basic, .Net and SQL
Proficient with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint)
Knowledge of infrastructure technologies; application and/or operating systems, documenting and maintaining complex application and process or configuration information
Providing day-to-day system/application administration and/or system/application administration in support in a variety of work environments; installing and maintaining applications, operating systems, or equipment
Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and to implement solutions
Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new concepts
Knowledge of Patch Management, Security Monitoring tools, Anti-Virus, Incident Response, Backup and Recovery Operations; and familiarity with networking and SIEM tools; VMWARE/NUTANIX technologies and Hyperconverged networks; NERC/CIP Standards and requirements and how to ensure compliance
Company
Alava Consulting
Alava Consulting specializes in the fields of staffing and recruiting.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Jason Price
Managing Partner
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