Senior Engineer, Hosted PTC Services

Job Description

As part of the Wabtec Digital Intelligence organization, the Surface Transportation software group is a best-in-class team with highly successful product lines for the rail industry. Our products support rail customer operations for positive train control, dispatch systems, SCADA, and customer information management and include both back office and front facing components. Our successful products are deployed in over 30 customer operational systems and we continue to develop the next generation of our products for future growth in areas such as positive train control, high speed rail, and data analytics.

As part of the Wabtec Digital Intelligence organization, the Surface Transportation software group is a best-in-class team with highly successful product lines for the rail industry. Our products support rail customer operations for positive train control, dispatch systems, SCADA, and customer information management and include both back office and front facing components. Our successful products are deployed in over 30 customer operational systems and we continue to develop the next generation of our products for future growth in areas such as positive train control, high speed rail, and data analytics.

As a Senior Engineer in the Surface Transportation Group, you will be responsible for supporting Wabtec’s Positive Train Control hosted environment for nearly 20 railroad customers. You will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and improving the systems and service as well as interacting with our customers. You will be working with applications (such as Crew/Consist Servers, Mobile Device Managers (MDM) Servers and Key Exchange servers), messaging software (Interoperable Train Control Messaging (ITCM)), and network communications.

You must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or closely related discipline
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience on an engineering or production support engineering team
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in positive train control (PTC) back-office operations
• Knowledge of railroad system operations or communications
• Strong experience with ITCM and PTC
• Strong experience AWS Cloud and Terraform
• Strong understanding of IP networks
• Strong understanding and usage of Linux operating system, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows server operating systems
• Server system administration skills
• Experience with configuration management, defect tracking, and problem resolution
• Experience with installation, maintenance, and query of relational database (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server)

We would love it if you had:

• Knowledge with
• Key exchange
• Wayside operation (WSRS, WMS, WIU)
• Active
  
  MQ, ClassD
• Multi Region AWS operation
• Onboard/Slot 10 operation and configuration
• Base Radio operation
• Ansible
• Nagios
• Data
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills using Wireshark, tcpdump, and other packet / log inspection tools
• Experience reading and writing Bash, Ruby, Python, C#
• Basic knowledge of TLS/SSL and X.509

• Monitoring the PTC system
• Developing upgrade/update plans for applications
• Interface with customers
• Troubleshooting railroad operation issues
• Interacting with engineering teammates
• Looking for ways to improve system performance and reliability

• Employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• Employee is regularly required to see and observe small print on computer screen.
• Employee is regularly required to sit and/or stand for prolonged periods of time.
• Employee is regularly using repetitive hand motions, typing on a keyboard.

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.

Wabtec will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable) and fitness for duty test (as applicable).

The salary rate for this role is currently $ The actual salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, education, business needs, market demands and work location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, are available at  Other benefit offerings for this role may include annual bonus, if eligible.

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