SCADA NERC CIP

NO THIRD PARTIES NO SPONSORSHIP MUST BE LOCAL TO HOUSTON

Alava Consulting's client is looking for a SCADA NERC CIP Engineer to join the team. This is a 6 month hybrid contract located in the galleria.

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.
• Experience with Hyperconverged Technologies, private and public cloud.

• 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; e and familiarity with networking and SIEM tools; VMWARE/NUTANIX technologies and Hyperconverged networks; NERC/CIP Standards and requirements and how to ensure compliance.