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Hitachi Energy · 13 hours ago

OT Cybersecurity and Networking Systems Senior Engineer

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. The role involves delivering substation automation solutions and providing technical cyber and networking guidance, focusing on cybersecurity lifecycle support and system project execution.

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Responsibilities

Understand customer issues, cybersecurity and networking challenges, cybersecurity requirements for Industrial Control Systems, Electric Energy Operational Technology Control Systems and regulatory cybersecurity requirements
Coordinate cyber security discipline and support project execution across several projects concurrently
Provide technical support for project testing, installation and commissioning activities and ensure necessary documentation is prepared to support cybersecurity audits and compliance per customer and company policies
Assess and develop cybersecurity practices aligned with policies and ISA/IEC 62443/ISO 27001 procedures
Explain cybersecurity applications and network architecture apply engineering analysis, and diagnose application related issues in the evaluation, engineering and commissioning of the substation automation solution
Have a thorough understanding and experience of substation automation system and cybersecurity architecture development, design & engineering, commissioning, asset inventory creation and audit documentation and best practices
Be able to architect, engineer, test and diagnose IEC 61850 station and process bus solutions
Have implementation and audit experience with NERC CIP, ISA/IEC 62443 and IEEE/IEC Cybersecurity standards and their applicability in a utility and industrial automation environment
Have a sound understanding and experience of Transmission and Distribution protection, control and automation principles
Properly transfer customer cybersecurity and networking requirements (both known and anticipated) into technical specifications and optimized architecture and system design based on industry standards and regulations
Ability to represent the company in industry conferences and standardization activities
Ability to collect essential cybersecurity information, assess implementation and execution to policies and procedures and prepare documentation support cybersecurity audits

Qualification

Cybersecurity architectureIEC 61850NERC CIP complianceISA/IEC 62443Substation automationCyber risk assessmentTechnical documentationProject managementCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

understand customer issues, cybersecurity and networking challenges, cybersecurity requirements for Industrial Control Systems, Electric Energy Operational Technology Control Systems and regulatory cybersecurity requirements
coordinate cyber security discipline and support project execution across several projects concurrently
provide technical support for project testing, installation and commissioning activities and ensure necessary documentation is prepared to support cybersecurity audits and compliance per customer and company policies
assess and develop cybersecurity practices aligned with policies and ISA/IEC 62443/ISO 27001 procedures
explain cybersecurity applications and network architecture apply engineering analysis, and diagnose application related issues in the evaluation, engineering and commissioning of the substation automation solution
have a thorough understanding and experience of substation automation system and cybersecurity architecture development, design & engineering, commissioning, asset inventory creation and audit documentation and best practices
be able to architect, engineer, test and diagnose IEC 61850 station and process bus solutions
have implementation and audit experience with NERC CIP, ISA/IEC 62443 and IEEE/IEC Cybersecurity standards and their applicability in a utility and industrial automation environment
have a sound understanding and experience of Transmission and Distribution protection, control and automation principles
properly transfer customer cybersecurity and networking requirements (both known and anticipated) into technical specifications and optimized architecture and system design based on industry standards and regulations
ability to represent the company in industry conferences and standardization activities
ability to collect essential cybersecurity information, assess implementation and execution to policies and procedures and prepare documentation support cybersecurity audits
Requires detailed knowledge and experience of protection, control and automation systems, communication networks, IEC61850/IEC62351 standards, and utility protection, control and automation practices
Must be able to assess various system architectures and utility policies/practices to support the utilities compliance towards the NERC / CIP standards and working knowledge of ISA/IEC 62443 and ISO 27001 standard series applicable for organizations, products and system project execution
Should be familiarized with protection and control products and complete SA products portfolio (IED's, Gateways & HMI & control software) as they are applied to Hitachi Energy Substation Automation system solutions
Be the subject matter expert in cybersecurity and communication networking to support multiple engineering disciplines (such as protection systems, communications, project management, engineering economics) in the design and delivery of engineered system deliveries

Company

Hitachi Energy

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Hitachi Energy is a renewable energy company that provides energy consulting services.

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$300M
2025-03-19Post Ipo Equity· $300M
2020-03-30IPO

Leadership Team

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Ron Hunt
CFO Enterprise Software Solutions
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Allie Anzelone
Site HR Business Partner
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