OT Data Network Engineer

Base

Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :
Reading, Perth, Glasgow Salary: 64,085 - 76,851 +  performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern:
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Specialist to join the Energy Markets OT/IT team,  you will contribute to technical support in ensuring the ongoing maintenance, and developed service improvements to our core applications and products. With a level of guidance and support, role holders apply their knowledge to diagnose and resolve  incidents, problems and develop technical solutions to satisfy business requirements.

You Will Diagnose and resolve OT/IT incidents and problems with minimal support, including participation in escalation processes.

Provide support, estimation, design, and development input for new enhancements to core OT/IT applications, working to defined standards.

Support monitoring and reporting of system performance and implement configuration changes as needed.

Assist with release, change management, impact assessments, deployments, and regression testing for technical changes and patches.

Validate and verify technical deliverables through QA and test processes, ensuring quality throughout the development lifecycle.

Ensure access and security of development assets, follow cybersecurity standards, and report risks to protect against loss and attacks.

You Have Relevant qualification or experience within OT/IT sector

Experience in Renewable Generation preferably Battery Energy Storage Excellent with industrial OT systems such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Modbus TCP and industrial networking (Routing and Switching).Excellent with industrial OT systems such as Edge Computing (Linux) and Azure IOT Hub combined with a strong understanding of industrial networks and MQTT protocols.

A systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving

About SSESSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around 10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future. Our investment will see us build the world's largest offshore wind farm and transform the grid to deliver greener electricity to millions.

SSE Energy Markets secure the energy needed to power customers' lives, while creating value for SSE. Our Energy Markets trading teams buy the fuel needed to deliver cleaner energy and sell power generated in our wind farm, hydro and thermal assets back to the markets.

Energy Markets (EM) is the commercial heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world. EM plays a critical role as the asset optimiser, route to market and risk management function for all SSE's Business Units (Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios).

EM enables SSE to focus its expertise and capabilities in energy markets (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence and, with these enhanced capabilities, support value creation and decision-making across the SSE Group.

Flexible benefits to fit your life Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer SSE will make any…