Senior Infrastructure Specialist

Position Information

Job Title:

Senior Infrastructure Specialist

Location:

Binghamton, NY

Salary Range: $96,400 - $120,500

Schedule:

On Site - Office

Purpose:

Definition, maintenance, and support of Operational Smart Grids (OSG) infrastructure operational policies, standards, best practices, procedures, tools, and projects in support of efficient, resilient, and secure operations of OSG supported applications and facilities. Directly works within technical teams and external vendors to provide operational support for a diverse set of operational enterprise services. Monitor operational performance to identify opportunities for improvement.

Align the operational requirements with relevant global/corporate operational requirement(s), security framework(s) and/or associated regulatory compliance. Must also be a self-starter/motivator for accomplishing tasks, and have the ability to work without supervision.

• Provide timely responses to all incidents, tasks and requests assigned to meet Service Level Agreements.
• Work with internal clients, suppliers/contractors, project teams and other technical staff to identify, design and support technical solutions.
• Design, plan and implement changes to the environment for improvements or projects.
• Provide maintenance of infrastructure technologies following the change management process.
• Lead the technical implementation plans in support of infrastructure technologies.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and testing of hardware and software products.
• Maintain regulatory compliance under NERC/CIP guidelines.
• Maintain high quality security controls surrounding the critical SCADA systems.
• Perform/coordinate special assignments from OSG Infrastructure Management.
• Provide 24x7 on call support.
• Provide professional and technical mentoring for team members.
• Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties.
• Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities.

• Organizational expert within network infrastructure, operations & security subject areas.
• In-depth knowledge of professional standards and trends within area of expertise.
• Proficiency in multiple security technologies, including network security, NAC, micro‑segmentation, and network security architecture.
• Experience with Network Access Control deployment in a large enterprise.
• Experience with authentication systems such as RADIUS, TACACS+, SSO, LDAP.
• Experience planning, researching and developing security policies, standards and procedures.
• Experience with SD-WAN and other tunneling/encryption transport technologies.
• Network Security Automation and Dev Ops experience is a definite plus.
• Strong routing and switching experience (BGP, OSPF, VPC, traffic engineering, multicast, etc.).

• Education: BS/BA Degree in Business, Computer Science, or other technical discipline. Will consider additional years of relevant experience and/or related technical certifications in lieu of degree requirement.
• Required Experience: Networking, networking protocols (vxLAN, vPC, spanning tree). Experience with dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP). Familiarity with firewall technology, security tools, scripting. Experience with SDN and load balancing (associated certifications are preferred). Virtual Switching experience with Cisco Nexus Technology is a must.
• Other
  
  Experience:
  
  Minimum of seven (7) years’ experience working with infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment. Professional experience with more than one of the following areas:
  Data Center Operations, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning & Execution, Security & Compliance Management, fundamental or high‑level understanding of UNIX Operating Systems (OS), Linux OS, Microsoft OS, VMware, Citrix.

• Competitive benefits and growth opportunities.
• Generous performance‑based bonuses (12% 401(k) match).
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Tuition…